Job Description:

Job Title: Project Manager 1 #129822

Job Location: Lancing, MI 48911

Job Type: Contract and Onsite

Job Mode: Hybrid Role with 2 days onsite from day 1 - Wednesday & Thursday.

Job Duration: 1 year with possible extension.

Interviews: MS Teams video interview with camera ON.

Project Manager 1: Years of Experience Minimum 2 years of experience as a Project Manager.

Top Skills & Years of Experience Required:

• Project Management Experience - 2-3 years
• Agile experience - 2-3 years
• Vendor Management (Nice to Have) - 2- 3 years.
• Ideal candidate is able to work alongside a project management team.

Job Description:

• Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field.
• Relies on limited experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required.
• May work under supervision of Senior Project or Program Manager, assisting with larger, more complex initiatives.
• This PMO area supports the Department of Labor & Economic Opportunity, including Michigan State Housing Development Corporation and Unemployment Insurance Agency, in addition to the Attorney General's office.
• Project and program work may be assigned in any of these areas according to work demands.

Project Manager:

• Designs, plans, and coordinates work teams.
• Follows standard project management industry practices such as the PMI's framework.
• Understands business and technical objectives of a project and works closely with project sponsor.
• Creates project charter and work plan and tracks budget and schedule progress via appropriate metrics.
• Establishes project organization and methodologies and defines roles and responsibilities.
• Documents risks and develops mitigation plans.
• Manages scope.
• Creates and implements a communication plan.
• Builds an effective team, assigns tasks to team members, and evaluates outcomes.
• Negotiates resources.
• Communicates to stakeholders and project sponsor. Identifies, tracks, and ensures resolution of issues and removal of barriers.
• Provides technical support to project team members.
• Handles complex application features and technical designs.
• Designs and implements the components required for complex application features.
• Generally, manages a group of applications system analysts.
• Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Professional certification is highly desirable.
  • May require specific PC, workstation, operating system, application, or platform skills.
  • Provides overall direction to the formulation, development, implementation, and delivery of a project.
  • Exercises management responsibility over the achievement of performance, revenue, and profit objectives of a project and its contracts.
  • Ensures that the project plan maintains tasks, schedules, estimates, and status, and disseminates information to team members and customers.
  • Creates a structure and organization for the management of a complex environment with emphasis on quality, productivity, and consistency.
  • Directs corrective actions in any area where the performance falls below objectives.
  • Arranges for the assignment of responsibility to other supporting facilities, business areas, and support functions, and monitors their performance. Self-directed and independent.
  • Responsible for the coordination and completion of projects.
  • Oversees all aspects of projects.
  • Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project.
  • Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of project.