For one of our long-term multiyear projects, we are looking for a Project Manager out of Madison, WI.
Responsibilities:
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 systems analysts. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Professional certification is highly desirable. Project Manager capabilities with 11 or more years of experience. Capable of managing a project with up to ten (10) or more staff and/or a project with multiple subprojects.
Must Have:
Gather and document requirements
Prepare written reports
Demonstrated competence in guiding an organization in preparing agency staff to adopt policy, business processes, IT, and other changes as needed to effectively implement a new major IT system.
Demonstrated competence in promoting understanding and cooperation within and between organizations in a complex business environment.
Experience and competence in assembling and managing a team of experts from a variety of disciplines and organizational levels to develop solutions to wide-ranging and sophisticated business challenges.
Experienced project manager or leader
Management of large projects
Progress tracking
Project plan development
Project proposals or charter development
Resource planning and management
RFI and RFP creation and evaluation
Strong verbal communications skills with ability to clearly present information and ideas to groups of ten or more managers and/or staff.
Familiarity with web application development concepts
Web and client-server application development experience, including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, implementation, and support.