Senior IT Project Manager; Govt Education Domain

Senior IT Project Manager (Govt Education Domain)

Location:

Jackson, MS (Remote)

Duration:
Long term

Position type:
Contract

• Manage IT Projects to include defining projects, tracking progress and status reporting
• Establish and maintain Project Management Standards
• Develop a comprehensive project repository to improve the ability to estimate resources for future IT projects
• Establish and maintain an Enterprise Project Portfolio containing multiple projects
• Requirements Management: gathering, analysis, organization and reporting
• Documentation of new development (User Guide, Systems Guide, other)
• Coordinate activities across different organizational functions
• Effectively communicate verbal and written requirements with stakeholders and the development team
• Collaborate with Senior Management, other Project Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, QA team, and developers to ensure requirements are communicated, accepted, and meet expectations
• Knowledge of PMI standards and processes and success in managing IT projects
• Use of project management and work management tools such as Azure Dev Ops and Git
• Experience with Information Technology Project Management and K‑12 Education
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Familiarity with software and database development concepts, including test cases, quality assurance, creation of diagrams, flowcharts, and workflows of business processes and data flow
• Translate and simplify requirements from stakeholders into written requirement documents for the development team. Documents include Formal Requirements Document, Functional Design Document, Technical Design Document, Technical Use Cases, User stories, Business Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix, and Test cases
• Provide hands‑on project management of enterprise‑wide projects including all phases of the project life cycle and/or software development life cycle and support a project management team
• Experience in mapping business processes into technical documentation
• Experience in developing Business Cases, Benefit Analysis, and identifying Risks