What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at NucleusTeq?
Job Description
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments and removing roadblocks to their work.
• Facilitate multi-disciplinary teams in the development of plans, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures for the completion of a project.
• Oversee and manage execution and/or coordination of day-to-day project activities as required.
• Manage working relationships with key stakeholders, including executive management, business management, vendors, project sponsors, suppliers, and technology management.
• Set project goals that are consistent with business objectives.
• Track and communicate the project's progress from a schedule, cost, and risk perspective to the project team, customers, and project stakeholders.
• Adapt project specifications, plans, and approaches to the different concerns and expectations of stakeholders.
• • Monitor progress by third-party vendors, and define and measure their progress with metrics.
• Develop and maintain project budget, plans, tasks, schedules, risks, and status, to include resource allocation and schedules.
• Adhere to VDOT and VITA project management practices and governance requirements.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
• Strong experience in developing, executing, and managing third-party / vendor-led projects.
• Strong experience in leading the development, solicitation, and execution of RFIs, RFPs, SORs, and SOWs.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building.
• Strong verbal/written communication skills with the demonstrated ability to simplify and communicate complex issues to multiple audiences.
• Ability to work with customers, understand their business practices, and manage their expectations.
• Ability to lead others to implement new approaches, systems, structures, and methods.
• Ability to balance both business and technical backgrounds in order to provide highly credible leadership to technology teams.
• Ability to define and balance the competing demands for quality, scope, schedule, and cost.
• Ability to analyze and document business and system processes.
• Solid understanding of software development life cycle models as well as expert knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices. In addition, the ability to blend them
together in the right proportions to fit a particular project and business environment.
• Knowledge of process engineering and re-engineering techniques and practices.
• Experience with SAFe methodologies on enterprise-level application development projects.
• Fluency in Project Management tools such as Microsoft Project, Visio, and Office.
• PMP Certification required
• PMI-ACP, SAFe Certifications preferred
