Senior Project Manager

SR. PROJECT MANAGER

Columbia, SC

1 YEAR+ CONTRACT WITH ANNUAL EXTENSIONS & OPTION TO HIRE

KEY EXPERIENCE:

- SDLC Project Management Experience.
- Candidate must show that they have managed technical projects through the entire life cycle.
- Strong senior level Project Managers who have worked in a matrixed environment (ie worked with upper management, etc.)
- Must have a stable job history.
- Experience using the Waterfall methodology

EDUCATION/EQUIVALENCY:

- Bachelor's Degree OR extra 4 years related work experience

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

- SDLC Project Management Experience (Required, 7 years)
- MS Office Proficiency (Required)
- MS Project experience (Required)
- Experience working in a matrixed environment (Required)
- PMP Certification (Highly Desired)
- SharePoint (Nice to Have)

PMO INFORMATION:

- The PMO provides project management for all Infrastructure and Technology driven change, including coordination across all impacted Lines of Business (LOB). Leveraging LOB PMOs and Client Management teams as necessary.
- The Project Manager is responsible for all project management activities in a matrixed project environment utilizing Waterfall/PMBOK-based methodology.
- The project environment is fast-paced and deadline-focused.
- Must be able to work independently while keeping management informed, handle deadline pressures, and effectively escalate project issues.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Accountable for the delivery of projects on time, on budget, and on target.
- Facilitating project team through the definition of scope, requirements, and design.
- Responsible for authoring (using input from project team) required project documentation, including scope document, design document, and implementation document.
- Responsible for facilitating the WBS process and translating WBS into an MS-Project project schedule, detailed to an 8/80 level of granularity.
- Responsible for keeping the project schedule updated throughout the project life cycle, and for managing a change control process to reflect changes in requirements, deliverables, dates, or budget.
- Responsible for facilitating the identification of project risks and issues, and tracking these through the project life cycle.
- Responsible for coordination of customer testing, with the assistance of a Test Analyst on larger projects.
- Responsible for scheduling, facilitating and recapping project team meetings.
- Responsible for the escalation of project issues, and for communications of project status to all levels of management on both customer and I/S side.
- Develops and monitors project plans, risk management plans, and project documentation from scope to post implementation.
- Ensures project documentation and deliverables are complete, on budget, within scope, and in accordance with standards.
- Identifies items that impact the scope, budget, risk, and resources of the work effort.
- Monitors resource requirements based on project specifications.
- Ensures resources are assigned to meet project objectives while managing project hours budgeted.
- Responsible for the development, execution, and maintenance of project communications.
- Facilitates effective communications between all parties involved in the project and/or work efforts. This will include meetings, correspondence, status reports and other documentation.
- Identifies the impact of issues arising from the work efforts and/or resource requirements.
- Manages the project issues throughout the project life cycle.
- Communicates the implications of changes to the project scope with senior management and other appropriate parties.
- Responsible for ensuring all work efforts have appropriate documentation for audit purposes utilizing project methodology standards in accordance with the ISSM.
- Coaches, develops, mentors other team members.
- May provide guidance and leadership to staff pertaining to training and department initiatives.
- May provide oversight for a group of work efforts as requested. May perform peer reviews of project artifacts.