Description:
Role and Responsibilities Description - Project Manager
The PMO uses a best practice approach to introduce and deliver projects, which includes project management - the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to meet project requirements and ensure that projects are executed effectively and efficiently, while assuring delivery on time and within budget. This office operates in alignment with Project Management Institute (PMI) guidelines, quality standards, and department requirements.
Role Summary
The Project Manager works collaboratively with stakeholders and project team members to plan, execute, monitor, and control the project with the given constraints. This role leads and coordinates the management of the project - including leading the project team members, achieving project goals, facilitating communications and engagements with stakeholders, and seeing the project through to its closure.
Responsibilities
Lead the definition of project scope, milestones, tasks, deliverables, resource requirements, and project success criteria
Manage project teams assembled to deliver projects on-time, on budget, meeting functional and quality specifications to sponsor satisfaction
Forecast, manage, and report on project financials, planned vs. actual project schedule, and resource utilization
Identify resources needed to complete work and collaborate with sponsors/ manager(s) to assemble appropriate skills/teams
Ensure that project management plans are developed, accepted, and used to monitor project execution for compliance with; scope, schedule, quality, risk/issue, communications, stakeholder, resource, cost, integration, and vendor management processes
Advise State Contract Manager on administration of vendor contract, acceptance of deliverables, and change requests
Deliver IT governance committee presentations
Coordinate the deliverables review and acceptance process
Organize and facilitate project meetings and workshops
Create and execute strategies for risks mitigation and contingency planning
Escalate issues that require executive, management or business attention
Provide weekly status reports and communicate to executive leadership
Ensure that assigned projects are conducted in compliance with all PMO standards.
Skills:
Agile, Pmp, Ms project, application development, vendor management, it project management, Project Management, Budget Management, Sdlc Methodologies, modernization, salesforce, erpss
Top Skills Details:
Agile,Pmp,Ms project,application development,vendor management,it project management
Additional Skills & Qualifications:
Also open to SNAP, TANF, or HHS experience
Team has had is journey establishing a PMO
Ideal Skillset: someone who has strong problem-solving skills. Is able to plan, solution, and document from blank canvas. Write a project plan that has multi year multi faceted things
Strong documentation, self-starter, strong interpersonal skills, stakeholder mgmt. skills
Experience Level:
Expert Level
About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.