Senior Project Manager

Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: Harrisburg, PA
Duration: 6 Months
Interview: IN PERSON ONLY

Communication, collaboration, and management at the most senior level is required.

Ideal candidates should have strong experience running projects as a project manager and have a working knowledge of agile/Scrum methodologies. This position reports to the business and service management director for the delivery center.

Primary Responsibilities Include

• Develop and maintain project control documents in accordance with enterprise project management methodologies, including project charters, cost plans, capacity management plans, risk management plans, communications plans, governance plans, schedules, change management plans, knowledge management plans, and quality assurance plans.

• Develop detailed project plans using project scheduling tools
• Lead all project plan development activities, including identification of phases, activities, tasks, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, schedules and assignment of resources.
• Motivate project resources to complete assigned duties and tasks.
• Prepare formal reports on the status and health of the IT projects, including periodic status reports, management dashboards, and project metrics.
• Monitor project quality, schedule and budget and facilitate actions to mitigate risk and address issues that arise.
• Facilitate the risk and issue management processes for IT projects by maintaining risk and issue logs, identifying risks and issues, communicating issues and risks according to project governance and working with project team members to ensure effective risk and issue management.
• Facilitate deliverable and project artifact approval processes for IT projects by tracking all deliverables and project artifacts that require approvals, communicating the need for approvals to the appropriate groups and individuals and tracking approval decisions and following up where need be to ensure approvals are achieved within established timeframes.
• Manage the project change control process for issues that impact the quality, schedule or budget of the project by documenting change requests, securing approval for changes and documenting approved changes in accordance with project governance.
• Facilitate periodic and ad-hoc project meetings, including scheduling with appropriate team members, preparing agendas, recording action items and key decisions and preparing, circulating and seeking approval for meeting minutes.
• Responsible for the upkeep and accuracy of the project in the project portfolio management system (Daptiv) to include project status, health, and timekeeping data.
• Works closely with agency business relationship managers, executive staff, and delivery center management to ensure project success and provide project status
• Using knowledge of agile practices and frameworks (in particular Scrum and Kanban) to support and serve the agile teams in the delivery center.
• Serve as Scrum Master for Agile development teams.
• Influencing and leading organizational change that positively impacts our agile teams.
• Providing and delivering project reports, presentations, and statuses to all levels of management with the delivery center and our customer agencies.
• Ensure compliance with SDLC policies and procedures
• Directing, coordinating, and tracking the activities of the delivery center’s staff for all activities associated with the project, including all Commonwealth employees and contracted staff assigned, through all phases of the project

Required Experience
1. Required: 8+ years of full-time experience as a project manager for large and complex information technology projects.
2. Required: Strong oral and written communication skills. Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate at all levels of an organization, including executive staff.
3. Required: Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate others to complete tasks.
4. Desired: PMP or similar project management certification.
5. Desired: 2+ years of experience in utilizing iterative project management methodologies.
6. Desired: 2+ years of experience in utilizing agile project management methodologies.
7. Desired: 2+ years of Scrum Master experience.

Job Type: Contract

Experience:

• Project Management: 8 years (Required)

Contract Length:

• 5 – 6 months

Full Time Opportunity:

• No