What are the responsibilities and job description for the Jr. IT Project Manager - USCB position at ANSER?
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
ANSER enhances national and homeland security by strengthening public institutions. We provide thought leadership for complex issues through independent analysis, and we deliver practical, useful solutions. ANSER values collaboration, integrity, and initiative and we are client focused in all that we do. Because we were established for the purpose of public service and not for profit, we measure our success in the impact of our service.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
This job opportunity supports the US Census Bureau’s IT Program Management Office (IT PMO) in Suitland, MD. The IT PMO provides centralized development and oversight of budget, resources, schedules, risks, and earned value for projects by selecting, prioritizing, evaluating, and monitoring them. This promotes a culture of project management that will reduce project costs, reduce project risks, better estimate staffing needs, better estimate project costs and resource needs, and improve project quality.
The Candidate shall provide project management support on behalf of the IT PMO. All projects shall be in compliance with IT PMO, Enterprise Systems Development Lifecycle (eSDLC), and USCB Program Life Cycle policies. Project management responsibilities for all assigned projects include, but are not limited to:
- Ensuring the delivery of all requisite programmatic documentation in accordance with eSDLC tailoring guidance and project schedule, while ensuring project teams adhere to Program Life Cycle and/or eSDLC tailoring guidance.
- Ensuring project teams adhere to IT PMO, eSDLC, and other USCB policies.
- Developing and maintaining eSDLC documentation including Initial Business Proposals, Detailed Business Proposals, Project Charters, Project Management Plans, Lessons Learned and project close out reports for all assigned projects.
- Building a resource loaded project schedule in the current IT PMO scheduling environment (e.g. Enterprise Project Server 2013) and obtaining baseline approval within the current IT PMO timeline (e.g. 30 business days) for project charter approval of the governance board.
- Building Earned Value Management (EVM) into project schedules as required by the Portfolio Manager (PfM) or Chief of the IT PMO.
Performing other project management activities, such as: - Risk and Issue Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Scope Management
- Resource Management
- Schedule Management
- Action Item Management
- Project performance management (via project metrics)
- Cost and Budget Management
- Hardware, Software, and IT Services Acquisition support
- Deployment and Transition to Operations and Maintenance Support
- Systems Development and Design Management and Support
- Project Requirements Management and Support
Qualifications:
Ability to obtain a Public Trust Security Clearance
Bachelor’s Degree
3 years Project Management leadership experience on large-scale Federal IT projects with hands-on experience with project management office processes and procedures
Demonstrated expertise with project management scheduling tools such as MS Project
Excellent written and oral communication skills
COVID-19 GUIDELINES:
Candidate must provide documentation to substantiate fully vaccinated status against the COVID 19 virus.
DISCLAIMER:
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ANSER is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We seek individuals from a broad variety of backgrounds with varying levels of experience who have a desire to do meaningful work. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.
