VSG Business Solutions LLC
Location
Lansing, MI | United States
Job description
Hello Guys,
Position
Project Manager
Client Name Michigan Center for Shared Solutions (CSS)
Requisition 127572
Location Lansing, MI
Duration 1 year
Due Date 2/29/2024
C2C Possible Yes. Provide your best rate C2C. We can also do W2
Interview Method Webcam
Candidates must be currently located in Lansing or within driving distance (1 hr, 15 minutes max). Resource will be working a hybrid schedule. Relocation is NOT allowed. Will need to be onsite from day 1, 2-3 days a week.
Description:
Our client is looking for a Project Manager. The candidate must be comfortable working in a fast paced, multi-vendor deployment supporting a hybrid workforce (combination of on-site and remote work) at all levels of the organization. Applicants should possess exceptional communication and follow-up skills along with significant experience in formal IT project management. This position requires the PM to be working in person for 2-3 days a week and remainder can be work from home.
Tasks
- Utilize Clarity to prepare project schedules, assign resources and management budgets.
- Prepare information for presentations geared to various audiences ranging from executives, managers and project team members.
- Accountable for monitoring, controlling, and communicating project progress by actively managing the cost, schedule, scope, resources, quality, and risks.
- Accountable and responsible for clear, timely, and accurate communications with stakeholders, particularly the project sponsors, project team members, program managers, and management, on the status of the project, using appropriate communication methods.
- Responsible for providing leadership and fostering collaborative participation between the technical and business teams by obtaining consensus and gaining commitment.
- Responsible for facilitating and enforcing the Change Management process (Change Requests) when the project deviates from the approved scope, schedule, or budget. This includes ensuring all Change Requests have appropriate approval before action is taken or information is updated.
- Responsible for creating project Corrective Action Plans (CAP) when necessary for projects in yellow or red status.
- Responsible for reviewing and understanding vendor contracts to actively manage the vendor deliverables and adherence to the vendor deliverable approval procedure.
Skills Required
- 7 years - Experience as a Project Management including experience managing people as well as projects.
- Must have managed over 30 resources (BA or Developers).
- 5 years - Experience using a project portfolio management system and tools (e.g.) Clarity.
- 7 years - Experience establishing and maintaining project budgets, schedules, change requests, risk and issue logs.
- Delivering projects on time and on budget.
- Vendor management experience with strong communication skills
- 7 years Waterfall Experience
- 5 years - Experience providing project management services for IT Projects involving Commercial Off the Shelf Technology (COTS).
- Bachelor's Degree
Skills Desired
- 3 years PMP Certification
- 5 years - Experience handling variety of stakeholders and system owners from other departments.
- 5 years - Experience managing multi-vendor environment in a government environment.
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