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Project Manager 3 | Remote

extra holidays

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Fixed term

Experience:

Senior (5-10 years)

Work from:

Georgia (USA), United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 5 years of project management experience, 1 year experience in state government, Understanding of PM methodology and SDLC.

Key responsabilities:

Deliver results for project initiatives
Manage communication with project stakeholders

TalentBurst, an Inc 5000 company Human Resources, Staffing & Recruiting Large https://www.talentburst.com/

1001 - 5000 Employees

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Job description

Title: Project Manager – PRISM / Workday
Duration: 5 Months with possible extension
Location: 100% Remote Work – ( Augusta, ME)
Pay Rates: W2 Acceptable

Job Description:

Required Skills:

5 years of project management experience. Including business process modeling and analysis.
Minimum of 1 year experience in state government.
Experience working with multiple teams.

Preferred Skills:
Experience managing Vendors.
Understanding of SDLC methodologies.

Key Responsibilities:
Specific responsibilities of the resource
Project Management

Deliver results for small to mid-sized project initiatives within established timeframes and quality measures.
Prepare new or remediated project assets that may be managed by an executing PM.
Direct resources on assigned projects and ensure clarity of project roles and responsibilities.
Identify project stakeholders and manage communication with the project stakeholders.
Consult with business leaders to translate a project idea into a defined project with goals, objectives, and scope.
Identify resources needed, negotiates with people managers as required to lead project teams, ensuring clarity of project roles and responsibilities, so that all project plans are completed within defined timeframes, meeting objectives and strategic goals.
Develop and implement communication and reporting mechanisms to manage issues, risks, and timely delivery of initiative results. Translates project goals/objectives into a defined future state and project success measures that can be understood by project stakeholders, project team and others.
Ensure business needs and objectives are effectively captured in functional and non-functional business requirements for a system and/or process/workflow.
Oversee business requirements to meet expected business solutions and trace delivery of requirements through testing and final implementation, with mentoring by a more experienced project manager, as needed. General understanding of business requirement management and quality management in order to meet expected business solutions.
Manage project quality through activities such as conducting appropriate reviews, obtaining approvals, taking corrective action, when necessary, with mentoring by a more experienced project manager, if applicable.
Ensure that project documentation is complete and current.
Articulate project management best practices with peer group, as applicable.

Leadership

Proactively establishes and maintains cooperative, productive partnerships on current project/deliverables.
Promote the benefits of change and act as a catalyst for change within the organization, as well as adapts to changes imposed by others.
Organize and guides the activities of the project team. Prioritizes tasks to meet deliverables and commitments on time. Ensures that project member's time and experience is well utilized. Recommends alternatives/options to minimize any schedule delay.
Share project experience/knowledge and mentor others to help build project management skills

Skills:
Required and desired skills of the resource

Any combination of education or experience equivalent to a bachelor's degree with five years of project management experience.
In depth knowledge/understanding of the PM methodology and a broad understanding/awareness of SDLC methodologies.
Strong understanding of government organization is preferred.
Strong ability to work effectively in a business and technical environment.
Effectively uses technical project management tools.
Strong initiative and ability to set stretch goals.
Strong ability to negotiate effectively with business and IT partners on business requirements and timeframes on mid-size initiatives.
Strong ability to rally support among peers and work effectively within challenging situations.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to balance the need to gather detail with the need to solve the problem.
Strong ability to identify and apply different communication mediums based on a content and audience at all levels (both internal and external to Maine gov) to achieve intended goal.
Advanced PC skills required (Excel, Power Point, Word, etc.) Preference given individuals that have experience with managing Vendors