Project Manager

General Responsibilities

Ensure projects are delivered within the approved budget,
schedule, and scope

Manage the company’s relationship with the client and all
stakeholders

Secure acceptance and approval of deliverables from project
sponsors and applicable stakeholders

Ensure that the required project documentation is complete
and archived

Effectively manage resources to maximize efficiency and meet
targets

Manage and measure the team’s performance of project tasks

Produce project-related communication such as status
reports, change logs, meeting note, etc.

Act as primary contract manager ensuring contract compliance
for all deliverables and adherence to all contracted provisions

Manage and support system integration testing, UAT, and
production implementation

Show initiative and speak up; successfully present to groups
of people without stage fright

Challenge the status quo; don’t just accept what is
presented

Not just track tasks from a high level but get down in the
details, understand the problems, and come up with solutions

Responsible for providing and tracking estimates,
forecasting, comparing actuals to forecast, and taking calculated corrective
action as needed

Required Skills, Qualifications, and Experience

Proven work experience as a Project Manager for custom
software implementations with state government agencies

Experience authoring software requirements and
specifications documents such as Business Requirements Documents (BRD),
Functional Specifications Documents (FSD), etc.

Must have experience with software that requires major
customization- not just changes to a canned product such as large ERP systems,
for example.

Managed projects where client is completely external to the
organization and the only corporate relationship with the client is through a
contract

Managed User Acceptance Testing and taken a system live

Managed multiple software implementations in the $1 million
to $10 million range

Experience managing and adhering to written contracts
between the company and the client

Strong familiarity with project management software, such as
Microsoft Project and Team Foundation Server

Bachelors Degree in a technical field

Excellent client-facing and internal written and verbal
communication skills

Solid organizational skills with attention to detail and
multi-tasking skills

Strong planning skills, prepare very detail task oriented
and milestone driven plans, tracking these plans in MS Project and able to lead
teams to adhere to a rigorous project schedule

PMP certification

State Government Experience Preffered, FSSA Experience
preferred, Health & Human Services Experience Preferred, Office of Early
Childhood Experience Preferred.