Job ID :
29485
Company :
Internal Postings
Location :
Harrisburg, PA
Type :
Contract
Duration :
2 Years
Salary :
DOE
Status :
Active
Openings :
1
Posted :
26 Jan 2021
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Detailed Job Description:

  • Direct, administer, manage and facilitate a business process re-engineering or development of a high priority, high profile, commonwealth enterprise – wide information technology project of strategic importance.  
  • On behalf of the Department of State, provide project oversight and help plan, organize, prioritize, and manage multiple work efforts across the project team.
  • Assist in conducting reviews with project steering committee and report status and recommendations to senior leadership as needed.
  • Mentor less experienced project management staff to build overall understanding of project management when needed.
  • Develop and facilitate achievement of project service commitments.
  • Plan project-specific training and orientation needs.
  • Accountable for delivery of all work tasks identified in the project management plan.
  • Monitor and track the project budget and advise necessary stakeholders. 
  • Responsible for the capture and reporting of required project management metrics.
  • Accountable for the final project management evaluation review with stakeholders.

Project Management Plan:

  • Assist in the development and maintenance of a project management plan.
  • Review and refine project plan, to identify needs and define major tasks and milestones, based on scope, resources, budget, and personnel.
  • Make decisions within the designated authority as defined in the project plan to minimize project risk supported by sound analysis and project management best practices.
  • Accountable for management of the project’s scope and gaining agreement and approval of scope changes with project steering committee and affected stakeholders.

Project Schedule:

  • Develop work planning and scheduling work.
  • Manage, and track the project progress against the project schedule.
  • Coordinate project schedules across multiple project teams.
  • Balance workload with project members’ capacity.
  • Monitor project milestones and phases and take corrective action as needed to ensure the project is on schedule. 
  • Notify team leads of project timelines, milestones, phases, work requests target dates, and approved executable work packages.
  • Accountable to schedule or monitor status reviews, project management inspections, and software quality assurance work product and process reviews with the appropriate stakeholders.
  • Accountable for peer reviews with the appropriate project team resources.
  • Responsible for the development of estimates for the enhancement, business process re-engineering or development effort in planning, analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation.
  • Works with team leads to adjust and revise project estimates when necessary.
  • Ensure new project estimates are approved by the client and agreed upon.
  • Change Requests.
  • Ensure all changes to scope follow processes outlined in the Change Management Plan and are documented.
  • Receive and log all change requests from project stakeholders assisting them with the completion of the form as necessary.
  • Conduct preliminary risk, cost, schedule, scope analysis of change prior to CCB.
  • Seek clarification from change requestors on any open issues or concerns.
  • Make documentation revisions/edits as necessary for all approved changes.
  • Ensure any approved change is communicated to the project team and stakeholders.

Risk Management:

  • Identify and manage project risk, and develop risk mitigation strategies, and track to closure.

Project Standards:

  • Coordinate the establishment of project standards and project specific procedures with team leads.
  • Responsible for project compliance with project’s standards and procedures.
  • Ensure that tasks provide value and support the strategic direction of the project and meet service commitments.
  • Responsible to tailor and baseline all project templates.

Project Communication:

  • Serve as the primary point of contact for all project-related issues and resolution of issues.
  • Communicate effectively with customers and software / hardware suppliers supporting the commonwealth as appropriate.
  • Communicate and work with users and client as necessary.
  • Anticipate issues and proactively address them. Identify and track issues.
  • Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and customer representatives.
  • Communicate to team members how their work assignments relate to and help achieve project objectives.
  • Prepare status reports on a periodic basis for the project team, team leads, group leads, Sponsor, and appropriate stakeholders.
  • Analyze and distribute reports on project metrics associated with work items related to improvement measures.

Experience required: 7 Years