Project Manager

Project Manager

Annapolis, MD (Onsite / Hybrid)

Job Responsibilities:

• Maintaining expert level knowledge and skills relative to the JIS Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and the Project Management Office (PMO) templates.
• Creating and maintaining the Project Plan (PP).
• Monitoring the ongoing project activities against the project management plan and any project performance baselines.
• Monitoring and controlling project scope, cost and schedule.
• Tracking all project performance against any performance metrics.
• Working in partnership with the project team, infrastructure team and project vendors to manage the release of new software.
• Viewing stakeholders / business owners functional duties holistically to understand impact of dependent / inter-related business functions.
• Chairing project and status meetings.
• Determining the source of issues, including but not limited to.
• System requirements
• Data
• Performance
• Workflow
• Business process
• Quality of the software or.
• Training
• Determining the impact of an issue - high, medium, or low and.
• Creating strategies for issue resolution.
• Consistently reviewing all updates to issues and ensure that there is complete and thorough documentation and appropriate assignment.
• Control change and recommend corrective or preventive actions.

Maintaining and updating risk register, including but not limited to :

• Determining the probability and impact of all risks and.
• Developing risk contingency, mitigation, or avoidance options.

Ensuring each software release or patch contains :

• Vendor test results
• Required configurations and
• Release notes
• Creating and reviewing integrated change control requests.

Creating and maintaining the following project artifacts as needed :

• Charter ( Scope Statement ).
• Stakeholder and Vendor Management.
• Project Schedule
• Requirements Traceability Matrix
• Data Conversion / Migration.
• Risk Register / Issues Log.
• Deployment Plan
• Test Plan
• Acceptance Plan
• Status Reports and
• Meeting Minutes

Preparing regular and ad hoc reports, including :

• Weekly project report of progress and status.
• Weekly time report and
• Additional reports as requested.

Required Skills :

• Detailed oriented
• Business process analysis skills.
• Data review and data migration skills.
• Knowledge of the Project Management Body of Knowledge ( PMBOK ).
• Knowledge and ability to utilize standards and guidelines relative to Systems Development Life Cycle ( SDLC ).

Highly organized with the ability to keep track of :

• Multiple projects ;
• Requirements ;
• Action items ; and.
• Follow through to task closure.

Abilityto :

• Work in a matrixed organization to align resources toward project deliverables.
• Work on multiple projects and objectives.
• Translate technical concepts into business terms.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with Peers ;.
• End users and vendor development staff ;.
• All levels of management ; and.

Certification :

• Active Project Management Professional ( PMP ) Certification.
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library ( ITIL ) Foundations Certificate.

Desired Skills :

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology ( IT ) or an IT related field ( e.g., Computer Science ),, or ten ( 10 ) years of experience managing IT projects ( i.e., leading a project, not serving as a team member under a project manager ) in lieu of degree.
• Five ( 5 ) years of experience managing IT projects with budgets of 500,000.00 - 1,000.000.00 or more.