DataStaff, Inc is seeking a Senior Project Manager for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients located in Richmond, VA.
* This position is hybrid; 2-3 days will be onsite
Responsibilities:

• Successfully planning, organizing, and motivating diverse project teams throughout all phases of Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid projects.
• Enable the transformation of identified requirements or opportunities to executable plans for delivery.
• Provide ongoing project level governance and oversight to projects throughout their execution.
• Provide exceptional value to the Commonwealth's internal and external stakeholders.
• Originate and oversee proposals, statements of work, statements of requirements and RFP responses through selection/acquisition. Facilitate the technical and planning aspects of the technology procurement process.
• Coordinate across multi-disciplinary teams to develop plans, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures that will enable future execution of a project or initiative. Incorporate agency best practices into those project plans.
• Ensure plans minimally include tasks, schedules, identification of potential risks, checkpoints, reporting of status and appropriate allocation of resources from all required disciplines.
• Seamlessly transition developed plans to internal and/or vendor teams for successful execution using PMI best-practices.
• Provide oversight to ensure projects in execution include a framework for governance encompassing adequate meetings, reporting, metrics, risk and issue management, and quality assurance.
• Validate that the assigned project team(s) adhere to project governance standards throughout the project lifecycle.
• Monitor progress by third-party vendors and define and measure their progress with pre-defined metrics and milestones.
• Manage working relationships with key stakeholders at all levels, including executive management, business management, vendors, project sponsors, suppliers, and technology management.
• Set goals for initiatives that are consistent with technical objectives and the agency s overall technology strategy.
• Adhere to project management practices and governance requirements.
• Exhibit significant emotional quotient (EQ) in handling project challenges and maintain a positive project culture in line with the mission and shared values.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong experience in developing, executing, and managing a portfolio of projects.
• Strong experience leading the business and IT resources through the discovery and documentation of business and technical requirements in request for proposal and statement of requirement formats.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills for collaborating and team building.
• Ability to plan in a rapidly changing environment and to provide guidance for changes as required for the life of the project.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the demonstrated ability to simplify and briefly, succinctly communicate complex issues to multiple audiences.
• Ability to lead others to implement new approaches, systems, structures, and methods.
• Ability to define and balance the competing demands for quality, scope, schedule, and cost.
• Communicate timelines and expectations to technical and business staff.
• Solid understanding of software development life cycle models.
• Exceptional knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall project management principles and practices. In addition, the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a particular project and business environment.
• Knowledge of process engineering and re-engineering techniques and practices.

• The candidate should have 15 years of overall IT experience.
• Experience with technology infrastructure is preferred.
• Application Development experience is a plus.
• The candidate should be proficient in Project Management tools such as Microsoft Project, Visio, and Office required.
• The candidate should possess financial literacy including budgeting, accounting, investing and managing credit.
• The candidate should have a minimum of 5 years experience in procurement management including original development of Statements of Work (SOWs), Requests for Quotation (RFQs) and contracts.
• PMP Certification through PMI or Qualified under Commonwealth of Virginia
• Experience with the Commonwealth Technology Portfolio (CTP) system and ECOS process is strongly preferred.
• Experience with the core Commonwealth IT procurement processes (RFP, Statewide Contract, and CAI SOW) is preferred.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree

• 10 Years - Large Project Management
• 5 Years - Portfolio Management
• 10 Years - Project Management Tools
• 8 Years - PMP or Qualified under Commonwealth of Virginia Qualification Standards for IT Project Managers for Category 4 Projects.
• 8 Years - Comprehensive knowledge of vendor contracting, and vendor management methodologies related to information technology projects.
• 10 Years - Financial Literacy
• 4 Years - Hands-on working experience with Microsoft Project.
• 5 Years - Must possess an active PMP from PMI OR a PM certification from VITA (no other certifications are accepted)

Desired Skills:

• 1 Years - VITA CTP
• 10 Years - Proposal Development/Business Writing
• 8 Years - Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure and software systems, including Azure and Google Cloud.
• 8 Years - Experience managing cloud-based solutions for data management and analytics.
• 8 Years - Experience in IT Infrastructure delivery (networking, physical plant, vendor management, site provisioning) is preferred.

This opportunity is available on a corp-to-corp basis or as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff, Inc. offers medical, dental, and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months.