Title: Senior Project Manager

Location: Los Angeles, CA, 90020

Duration: 12 months

Position Description

Senior PM has full responsibility to manage and oversee all aspects of the most complex IT projects to deliver an IT product, service or system.

This includes but is not limited to managing both external and internal IT project teams, and interacting with department heads, agency secretaries at the user agency, State control agencies, and individuals of similar status and capacity in the private sector.

The Senior PM determines appropriate products or services with clients or customers to define project scope, requirements and deliverables;

develops, modifies or provides input to project plans;

implements project plans to meet objectives;

coordinates and integrates project activities;

manages, leads or administers project resources;

monitors project activities and resources to mitigate risk;

implements or maintains quality assurance processes;

makes improvements, solves problems or takes corrective action when problems arise; gives presentations or briefings on all aspects of the project;

participates in phase, milestone and final project reviews;

identifies project documentation requirements or procedures;

develops and implements project schedules and release plans.

The Senior PM; designs or conducts analytical studies, feasibility studies, cost-benefit analyses or other research;

evaluates, monitors or ensures compliance with laws, regulations, policies, standards or procedures;

identifies standards or requirements for change management; participates in change control (for example, reviewing change requests);

implements information systems security plans and procedures;

ensures appropriate product-related training and documentation are developed and made available to customers.

Skills Required

The Senior PM will possess knowledge and experience in customer service; decision making; flexibility; interpersonal skills; leadership; organizational awareness; problem solving, reasoning; team building; oral communication, speaking and writing; business process reengineering; capital planning and investment assessment; contracting/procurement; cost-benefit analysis; financial management; planning and evaluating; project management; quality assurance; requirements analysis and risk management; configuration, data, and information management; information resources strategy and planning; information technology architecture; information technology performance assessment; infrastructure design; systems integration; systems life cycle; and technology awareness.

Skills Preferred

Excellent verbal and written communication skills; Excellent MS Project skills

Experience Required

This classification requires a minimum of seven (7) years of broad, extensive and increasingly responsible experience applying PM principles, methods, techniques, and tools. At least four (4) years of that experience must have been as a senior PM of one or more large or complex IT project.

Experience Preferred

Vendor Management

Education Required

This classification requires the possession of (a) a bachelor s degree, and (b) a valid Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI), which will be verified during the RFO process. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis. The PMP certification is required and may not be substituted with additional experience.