Senior Project Manager

Job Overview

Title: Project Manager 3

Location: Chesterfield, VA 23832 - Hybrid (three days per week working onsite)

Interview Type: In Person Only

Duration: 7 months contract

Short

Description:

Senior Project Manager to perform as primary project manager, requirements tracking and light business process definition on multiple technology projects of varying size as assigned. Some assignments will be for projects in-flight. Project assignments may span multiple business lines across the county vs being dedicated to a single business unit. Projects typically require project team engagement across various technical functions including information security, infrastructure (cloud and on-premise), integrations/system interfaces, data conversion, GIS, and others.

The project manager will work in a matrixed environment with project team members assigned by the functional managers as well as vendor solution providers.

• Project Management Institute Project Management Professional (PMP) Required
• Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Background and Online County Certification Course
• 2-5 years exposure to Professional Business Analysis (PBA) processes and techniques
• Desired 2-5 years on a team providing project management and business analysis for a medium institution of 500 or more employees.
• Role will work within the IST Project Management Office comprised of a team of 3 full time and one part time project managers working under the supervision of a PMO Manager.
• This will be a hybrid engagement with up to three days per week working onsite. However, candidate must be willing to accommodate onsite work as project demands dictate.
• Candidate must provide superior customer service through concise and timely communications, strong execution, a caring attitude, and a sense of urgency based upon customer and sponsor project priorities.
• This position involves working closely with business representatives to ensure that the technical solutions being developed are in line with the business needs and articulated appropriately to satisfy the needs of the business.
• Candidate must understand the role of business process as described by business representatives that inform solution requirements.
• Candidate will need to actively work to build knowledge and understanding of business department technology direction, strategy, operations and products/services.
• Candidate must understand how requirements, testing, and defect management can affect project quality and schedule.
• Candidate understands and can articulate the importance of satisfying user needs and expectations through effective application of project governance through project execution.
• Candidate understands the role of business process definition to inform requirements elaboration in project management and software development.
• Candidate is capable of applying basic techniques to capture business process flow using a process flowchart and standard RASCI model templates.
• Candidate should be experienced with application of analytical and estimation techniques with standard Microsoft tools as needed in order to assemble, propose, and quantify business cases and process improvement costs, if encountered. Proactively seeks guidance to assemble figures when guidance is needed.
• Candidate must be comfortable with independently pursuing decisions from customer and sponsor as actions are required to advance the project.
• Candidate will apply experience with decision-making processes to prioritize and work with the project customer to bring closure to matters affecting achievement of project scope.
• Candidate seeks timely, efficient, and proactive solutions that support business needs. Accumulates the input of business and IT leads to present relative costs and benefits of potential actions for project leadership to decide the most appropriate path to pursue.
• Candidate possesses ability to work with data to identify patterns & trends for presenting data driven recommendations.
• Candidate promotes and facilitates coordination and cooperation of planning, scheduling and executing among peers.
• Candidate creates & sustains relationships and builds trust with internal and external…