Senior IT Project Manager - Remote / Telecommute, Cynet Systems, All cities, AK
Cynet Systems -
All cities, AK,
US
Senior IT Project Manager - Remote / Telecommute
Date Posted: 2024-06-16
Job description
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Manages three plus medium- to large-scale projects from planning to completion by facilitating meetings with project stakeholders.
- Develops, analyzes, and manages project estimation and execution plans, schedules, and resource forecasts.
- Manages project financials and provides input and justification for costs and budget impacts.
- Monitors overall project performance against plan and makes adjustments as needed.
- Identifies and resolves issues.
- Provides insight and direction for the request for information and vendor request for proposal processes.
- Manages the work of multiple project teams by recommending or requesting resources based on the alignment of team member skills and project demands.
- Communicates a clear vision of project goals and objectives to the team.
- Coordinates team activities to ensure project milestones are achieved.
- Lead and provide work direction to a project team to determine project scope, devise and maintain a workable plan, and to develop and deploy the solution following the needs of the project.
- Provides performance feedback to team members as needed.
- Manages, controls, and mitigates risks across multiple projects by analyzing and identifying trigger events.
- Manage the project change control process, status reporting, project estimating, monthly cost accounting, and vendor invoice processing.
- Establishes contingency plans, anticipates and manages dependencies affected by ongoing changes across projects, and recommends ways to mitigate future risks.
- Influences management to take action on these recommendations.
- Manages the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders by building and maintaining relationships with internal customers, third party vendors, and senior management.
- Manage interaction between the customer, vendors, and the internal project team to ensure that appropriate relationships exist to produce positive project outcomes.
- Provides insight and recommendations to Program Managers to drive the development of project goals, influence the prioritization of deliverables, and facilitate decisions necessary for project delivery.
- Adheres to enterprise project management practices by participating in formal and informal training sessions.
- Tracks and reports key metrics as needed.
- Gathers, maintains, and communicates lessons learned and feedback to team members, management, and the larger project management community.
- Qualifications:
- Senior IT PM, that has experience leading large scale, highly visible executive mandated projects.
- This candidate should have a highly diverse skillset across multiple functions.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
- 6+ years of project management experience, including 8+ years of IT or related business experience.
- 3 to 5 years of experience working on projects involving the implementation of project life cycle methodologies.
- Experience influencing and managing project teams without formal direct reporting relationships.
- Experience managing SDLC projects using an iterative methodology preferred.
- Comprehensive knowledge of PMI based project management competency areas and methodologies and experience applying these methods to manage successful projects.
- Analytical skills are required to effectively manage activities related to budgeting, forecasting, monitoring, process management, risk management, quality control and reporting.
- Strong oral and written communication skills and experience leveraging these skills to interact with all levels of management.
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
- High-level understanding of IT infrastructure and application architectures desired.
- High-level of proficiency in Microsoft Office products, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, and Project.
- High-level of proficiency using Microsoft SharePoint.
- Typically requires BS/BA in a related discipline.
- Generally 8+ years of experience in a related field OR MS/MA and generally 5+ years of experience in a related field.
- Certification is required in some areas.
- Displays the highest level of critical thinking and analysis in bringing successful resolution to high-impact, complex, and cross-departmental problems.
- Makes prompt, sound decisions when faced with complex and often contradictory alternatives that result in successful outcomes.
- Operates with considerable latitude.
- Situations may have little or no precedent requiring original or new concepts or approaches without guidance from others.
- Reaches decisions under conditions of uncertainty.
- Develops or engages/directs others in developing innovative solutions to important, highly complex strategic and operating problems; cross-departmental considerations are often present.
- Located in a comfortable indoor area.
- Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about.
- On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
- Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.