An International Development and Consulting firm is seeking a Sr. IT Project Manager in Washington, DC.
About the Opportunity:
- Location: Remote but local to DMV area
- Hours: Core business hours - East Coast Hours
Responsibilities:
The Sr. IT Project Manager will:
- This is a project management senior manager level position requiring performance in the areas of Product Delivery, Technical Capacity, Management and Leadership.
- Oversee the overall delivery of the project from planning to release and operations.
- Manage project team members and stakeholders to ensure success of the project. The project manager serves as a project management consultant and provides technical leadership and innovation to internal and external clients.
- Product Delivery
- Proactively manages project team members, stakeholders, beneficiaries, and management expectations.
- Aligns project with the overall IT enterprise architecture vision and goals.
- Defines success criteria and provides regular updates to management and other stakeholders.
- Defines and manages project vision, strategy, tasks, scopes, schedules, budgets, resources, and risks.
- Leads and manages UAT and deployment activities.
- Leads and manages project vendors to ensure timely deliverables within budget and scope.
- Proactively solves project issues promptly and effectively.
- Proactively leads and empowers project team members to innovatively deliver product.
- Works effectively to ensure appropriate parties are involved and engaged to achieve project goals.
- Leads software market research including RFI/RFP development, cost benefit analysis, and selection process.
- Oversees overall project activities throughout all phases of SDLC.
- Champions and adheres to project management industry standard and best practices.
- Provides periodic communications to project sponsors, stakeholders, and management.
- Technical Capacity, Management, and Leadership
- Prioritizes, improvises, and adapts technologies to address changing business needs and issues.
- Takes leadership role in advancing project management and process improvement best practices and tools.
- Provides project leadership and management consulting across the enterprise.
- Proactively contributes to GTID organizational process improvement initiatives.
- Partners with business and GTID leaders to identify and prioritize opportunities for utilizing IT capabilities.
- Takes on leadership roles in problem solving and responds immediately to emergency situations.
- Performs other duties and responsibilities as required.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 8 years of IT project management experience in planning and implementing enterprise level systems.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and related work experience required.
- Experience in requirement analysis and business process re-engineering required.
- Experience with the Microsoft Office 365 suite of tools required.
- Advanced experience with Microsoft SharePoint, OneDrive file sync, and Microsoft Teams strongly preferred.
- Experience with all phases of SDLC and agile development methodology preferred.