Project Manager; Remote

Position: Project Manager (Remote)
** Overview*
* GovCIO is currently hiring for a Project Manager to support the Health Services Portfolio Veterans Health Services Finance product line within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Information and Technology (OIT). The Project Manager will be a hands-on leader who will support a VA Product Manager with day-to-day oversight providing strategy, process, and implementation advisory services to the Product Team.

The Project Manager will be responsible for client interactions and ensuring production of quality work products. The environment is dynamic, and client needs are often evolving; flexibility and forward-thinking views are important for success. This role is a fully remote position within the United States with core hours of operation from Monday to Friday 8 AM to 5 PM ET.

** Responsibilities*
* Creates integrated project plans for contract deliverables and new products in development projects. Manages oversight to a project team comprised of multidisciplinary staff. Reviews, manages and controls status of projects; manages schedules and prepares status reports. Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives. Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with team members and line managers.

+ Manages the direction of a project through the design, implementation, and testing in accordance with project objectives.

+ Defines requirements and plans project lifecycle deployment.

+ Supervises professional and technical support personnel performing in their regular disciplines.

+ Schedules tasks and coordinates with various team members to accomplish the results.

+ Advises on software development lifecycle for maturity of agile lifecycle management principles utilizing statistical analysis of processes.

+ Collaborates with peers, OIT VA PMs, VHA PMs, and product teams for maturity of IT processes and impact assessments.

+ Provides technical insight and solutions for continuous improvement of Agile, configuration management and release traceability considerations across the products.

+ Contributes to the transparency and completion of each project within assigned products.

+ Prepares and presents briefings, facilitation of government customer program increment planning and oversight of product meetings with a deep knowledge and understanding of the product status for patch remediation inclusive of ingest, development, testing, partner integration and CPAC IOC validation through release management with application coordinators.

+ Ensures adherence to quality standards and reviews project deliverables.  Including, the use of and advisement on Agile Lifecycle Management tools, guidelines, and principles.

+ Conducts project meetings and is responsible for project tracking, analysis and reporting.

+ Supports and advises the VHA Finance product line initiatives and engages OI&T staff to ensure product pilot programs are successfully implemented from the start with security, Section 508, and Dev Sec Ops  methodologies to enable successful nation-wide rollouts.

+ Identifies and advises on project/schedule risks and issues impacting the progress and outcome of the sub-Product Line.

+ Supports the monthly reporting requirements for the ACOE monthly metrics.

** Qualifications*
* ** Required Skills and Experience*
* + Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Systems, Business or related scientific/technical discipline with 15+ years' experience. 10 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education

+ Strong communication skills (oral and written) to relay concise messaging and reporting to all levels of management

+ Great interpersonal skills and ability to work independently with minimal guidance/supervision

+ Strong analytical and investigation skills crafting solutions to challenging problems or issues

+ Strong experience in developing presentations and slides for communicating technical and non-technical subjects to both small and large audiences

+ Experience taking vague requirements and requests and delivering robust products, recommendations, and/or solutions

+ Well-versed in Dev Sec Ops  and agile IT development and project management methodologies

+ Solid experience with Microsoft and other collaborative tools including Teams, SharePoint, Jira, etc.

+ Ability to extrapolate and communicate a client's main challenges and pain points and the ability to craft strong solutions and make recommendations

** Preferred Skills and Experience*
* + Preferred experience with VistA and mainframe applications

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* Clearance Required:

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* Ability to obtain and maintain a Suitability/Public Trust clearance

** Company Overview*
* GovCIO is a team of transformers--people who are passionate about transforming government IT. Every day, we make a positive impact by delivering innovative IT services and solutions that improve how government agencies operate and serve our citizens.

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