Project Manager with PMO and Technology implementation project experience with State or Federal Government experience

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Project Manager with PMO and Technology implementation project experience with State or Federal Government experience

Phone/Skype Hire.

Location: Augusta, ME / Hybrid

Duration: 12 months

This position is within the PMO, project flexibility and multiple projects may be assigned as needed. Hybrid. Will be required to report onsite in Augusta, ME once a quarter with the possibility of once a month as needed. Must be within 3 hours of Augusta ME.

Responsibilities

Project Management:

• Deliver results within established timeframes and quality measures.
• Prepare new or remediated project assets that may be managed by an executing PM.
• Direct resources on assigned projects and ensure clarity of project roles and responsibilities.
• Identify project stakeholders and manage communication with the project stakeholders.
• Consult with business leaders to translate a project idea into a defined project with goals, objectives, and scope.
• Identify resources needed, negotiates with people managers as required to lead project teams, ensuring clarity of project roles and responsibilities, so that all project plans are completed within defined timeframes, meeting objectives and strategic goals.
• Develop and implement communication and reporting mechanisms to manage issues, risks, and timely delivery of initiative results.
• Translates project goals/objectives into a defined future state and project success measures that can be understood by project stakeholders, project team and others.
• Ensure business needs and objectives are effectively captured in functional and non-functional business requirements for a system and/or process/workflow.
• Oversee business requirements to meet expected business solutions and trace delivery of requirements through testing and final implementation, with mentoring by a more experienced project manager, as needed.
• General understanding of business requirement management and quality management in order to meet expected business solutions.
• Manage project quality through activities such as conducting appropriate reviews, obtaining approvals, taking corrective action when necessary, with mentoring by a more experienced project manager, if applicable.
• Ensure that project documentation is complete and current.
• Articulate project management best practices with peer group, as applicable
  
  

Leadership:

• Proactively establishes and maintains cooperative, productive partnerships on current project/deliverables.
• Promote the benefits of change and act as a catalyst for change within the organization, as well as adapts to changes imposed by others.
• Organize and guides the activities of the project team. Prioritizes tasks to meet deliverables and commitments on time.
• Ensures that project member s time and experience is well utilized.
• Recommends alternatives/options to minimize any schedule delay.
• Share project experience/knowledge and mentor others to help build project management skills.
  
  

Skills Needed

Experience in large scale technology project implementation - Enterprise environments

Experience working with multiple teams

State or Federal Government experience

Any combination of education or experience equivalent to a bachelor s degree with five years of project management experience.