Innova Solutions is immediately hiring for a Technical Project Manager
Position type: Contract to Hire
Duration: 6 months
Location: REMOTE but must be local to TOPEKA, KS

PROJECT MANAGER
A Project Manager is responsible for the initiation, planning, execution, and closure of projects. This includes developing project plans, coordinating with agency business and IT staff, ensuring compliance with standards, managing project resources, tracking progress, resolving issues, and providing oversight and reports to leadership. They also support the Project Management Office in portfolio management and maintain project management tools and practices.
Specific Duties:

• Project Planning and Development: Crafting and refining comprehensive project plans, including schedules, communication strategies, and quality controls, tailored to meet the project's objectives and align with organizational goals.
• Initiating and Managing Project Tools: Implementing and overseeing project-specific tools like MS Project and SharePoint, guided by organizational standards, to enable efficient project tracking and collaboration.
• Evaluating Project Compliance: Assessing project plans against established architectural standards and policies, ensuring all projects adhere to the required guidelines and methodologies.
• Providing Oversight and Guidance: Offering strategic oversight and guidance to business and IT managers, emphasizing compliance with project planning standards and methodologies.
• Tracking and Reporting Progress: Monitoring the project's progress against its timeline and budget, ensuring deliverables meet the predefined quality standards, and proactively addressing deviations.
• Facilitating Issue and Risk Resolution: Identifying, documenting, and resolving project issues and risks, employing strategic problem-solving to mitigate impacts on project outcomes.
• Supporting the Project Management Office: Contributing to the broader goals of the PMO through active participation in portfolio management, enhancing project management practices, and ensuring effective communication with stakeholders.

Skills required:

• Proficiency in project planning, execution, monitoring, and closure techniques, including the use of project management software tools like MS Project and SharePoint, is essential for effectively overseeing project timelines, resources, and deliverables.
• The ability to evaluate project compliance, identify issues and risks, and develop effective mitigation strategies requires strong analytical thinking and creative problem-solving capabilities.
• Exceptional communication skills are critical for coordinating with agency business and IT staff, facilitating meetings, and ensuring clear, concise reporting to stakeholders. Collaboration skills are necessary for working effectively with team members, vendors, and other project stakeholders.
• Strong leadership abilities to provide guidance and oversight, influence project outcomes positively, and motivate team members towards achieving project objectives. This includes the capacity to negotiate and manage vendor contracts effectively.
• The ability to adapt plans in response to evolving project needs, organizational changes, or unexpected challenges. Skills in change management are vital for introducing new processes or tools and ensuring stakeholder buy-in and compliance with established standards and methodologies.

Experience required:
Degree and three years' experience with IT related project management or five years' experience with IT related project management. Additional experience in IT project management may be substituted for the required education.
Education required:
A bachelor's degree or higher is preferred.
PAY RANGE AND BENEFITS:
Pay Range*: $38/hr w2
*Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.
Benefits: Innova Solutions offers benefits( based on eligibility) that include the following: Medical & pharmacy coverage, Dental/vision insurance, 401(k), Health saving account (HSA) and Flexible spending account (FSA), Life Insurance, Pet Insurance, Short term and Long term Disability, Accident & Critical illness coverage, Pre-paid legal & ID theft protection, Sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
ABOUT INNOVA SOLUTIONS: Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Innova Solutions employs approximately 50,000 professionals worldwide and reports an annual revenue approaching $3 Billion. Through our global delivery centers across North America, Asia, and Europe, we deliver strategic technology and business transformation solutions to our clients, enabling them to operate as leaders within their fields.
Recent Recognitions:

• One of Largest IT Consulting Staffing firms in the USA - Recognized as #4 by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA 2022)
• ClearlyRated® Client Diamond Award Winner (2020)
• One of the Largest Certified MBE Companies in the NMSDC Network (2022)
• Advanced Tier Services partner with AWS and Gold with MS

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Innova Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits any kind of unlawful discrimination and harassment. Innova Solutions is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, national origin, citizenship, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by the statutes, rules, and regulations in the locations where it operates. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us at or . Please indicate the specifics of the assistance needed. Innova Solutions encourages all interested and qualified candidates to apply for employment opportunities. Innova Solutions (HireGenics/Volt) does not discriminate against applicants based on citizenship status, immigration status, or national origin, in accordance with 8 U.S.C. § 1324b.
The company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner that complies with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws.

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