Senior Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager 3 (Non-IT)

Job Number: 11890

Location: Vancouver, WA – hybrid – 3 days onsite every 2 weeks

Travel: Up to 5% local travel to meetings

OT: 5% anticipated

Length: 1 yrs, up to 5 years

MUST be US Citizen to be eligible to apply for Federal Background Check

Real ID or Passport REQUIRED for in-person interviews and onboarding

OVERVIEW

This contract Project Manager 3 position is in the corporate Transmission Strategy & Business Management organization. The primary focus of this role is to provide high-level project management services in support of Transmission strategic initiatives led by the corporate Transmission Services’ Strategy & Business Management organization. This position will provide support to corporate Management in defining and implementing strategic initiatives in for business transformation efforts. This project manager will interact with key managerial stakeholders and executives in the development of an overall strategy and roadmap to improve and streamline the core business processes used to deliver on the Transmission business model.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide project management expertise and support and facilitate corporate manager-assigned divisional Business Transformation strategic initiative projects, from beginning to end, providing expert guidance on the PMI-based project management methodology, best practices, and internal skill development as requested by and with guidance from the corporate manager, team lead or other personnel with the authority to do so, including:
• Identify and request necessary subject matter experts needed during the project.
• Forecast and recommend / request appropriate project resources to fulfill project needs
• Collaborate with business units and corporate Performance Managers to resolve resource allocation issues.
• Schedule and facilitate project team meetings.
• Recommend an overall roadmap of efforts required to achieve program initiatives and project objectives
• Provide recommendations regarding project expectations, approach, roadmaps, work plans, deliverables and goals.
• Draft project plans, resource strategies and funding estimates required to advance each assigned project / defined effort.
• Alert corporate manager of any potential changes to project cost, schedule or performance.
• Organize, coordinate and facilitate the work of project team(s) and serve as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects
• Monitor progress of assigned projects to track timelines, milestones, deadlines, standards and targets, alerting appropriate corporate manager / personnel of any obstacles / potential delays to project timelines, targets or success; provide corrective action recommendations.
• Collaborate with the corporate manager and internal stakeholders to facilitate the tasks and activities of project team(s) and to properly understand related business needs, dependencies on other initiatives, and how best to effectively deploy end products.
• Issue project status reports on a regular or as requested basis.
• Maintain consistent communication with project sponsors and clients on the progress of the project
• Collaborate and work with project sponsors and corporate performance managers to remove obstacles impacting timely project completion.
• Draft a final project report, including project “lessons-learned”
• Gather business requirements and needs analysis from various stakeholder perspectives.
• Perform gap analysis from the “as is” to the “to be” state.
• Anticipating and identifying potential areas of risk and obtaining guidance from appropriate corporate manager or Contracting Officer.
• Tracking, monitoring and facilitating resolution of issues and risks identified within the projects, as well as compliance related dependencies. Maintaining issue, risk, and/or action logs.
• Developing, drafting and recommending contingency plans to minimize / eliminate risks on an ongoing basis
• Communicate regularly with executive sponsors, key stakeholders, strategic partners, and corporate managers
• Coordination with the division program enterprise architect, to include business and data requirements to support business intelligence requirements and common information model needs
• Coordination with corporate Business Transformation Office (BTO) to monitor and deliver on agency Key Strategic Initiatives (KSI’s)
• Assist with the identification of organizational alignment and culture change required to advance improvement efforts
• Facilitate the implementation of Organizational Design and Change Management requirements as developed within the division program
• Coordinate and assist corporate management with transitions of identified project resources as needed.
• When necessary, facilitate the successful transition of a project or program of projects to another project manager including any training, documentation, or meeting coordination required to bring the new PM fully up to speed on all critical aspects of the work

REQUIREMENTS

Education & Corresponding Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Management, Organizational Development, Computer Science or a closely-related field is preferred.
• 10 years of experience is required with an applicable Bachelor’s degree.
• 12 years of experience is required with a non-applicable Bachelor’s degree.
• 14 years of experience is required without a Bachelor’s degree.

Required Technical Skills & Experience

• Experience with Access, Visio, MS Project, SharePoint.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• PMI or PMP certification

Pre-Employment Requirement

All employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of our pre-employment screening that may include drug testing, background/criminal check, and if applicable, must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

APR Staffing is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

About APR Staffing

APR Staffing was born from the merger of two well-respected technical staffing firms in Portland. ieSolutions and Data Resource Group. Both companies have been recent award winners for the Portland Business Journal's Fastest-Growing Private Companies. The two firms, now as APR Staffing, make for one of the fastest-growing and most-respected professional and technical staffing companies in Oregon and Southwest Washington.

Collaborating with our customers, we augment their workforce with technical and administrative professionals. We provide only high-caliber, professional-grade resources throughout the Pacific Northwest.