IT Project Manager - Cyquent, Inc
Rockville, MD
About the Job
IT Project Manager - Remote, must come on-site for meetings in Rockville, MD
Scope of Work:
1. Seeking one (1) highly skilled contractor to assist in Management Office, overseeing and successfully managing various projects simultaneously through to implementation. Responsibilities will include acting as Project Manager for assigned IT Projects and developing documents for
systems as needed.
2. The Program Manager will be expected to coordinate with client's department staff, agencies, vendors, and other entities as required.
General tasks include:
Scope of Work:
1. Seeking one (1) highly skilled contractor to assist in Management Office, overseeing and successfully managing various projects simultaneously through to implementation. Responsibilities will include acting as Project Manager for assigned IT Projects and developing documents for
systems as needed.
2. The Program Manager will be expected to coordinate with client's department staff, agencies, vendors, and other entities as required.
General tasks include:
- Act as Project Manager / Meeting Facilitator for assigned projects, including:
- Ensure that projects are defined, monitored, and implemented in a structured, consistent manner
- Employ processes and tools that promote predictability and quality of outcomes so that projects are completed on time and within scope and budget.
- Facilitating data collection efforts, regular checkpoint meetings, and special meetings as required.
- Hold briefings for the DHHS Senior Leadership Team, Workgroup, and Project Team as required.
- Use industry standard tools and systems to manage the requirements and other meeting items.
- Develop and implement Project Management Plans, Activities, and artifacts that ensure client's groups and vendors that are part of the Project Team.
- Ensure the proper documentation is in place, e.g., requirements document and support plans, to facilitate knowledge transfer in a manner that positions DHHS to assume primary responsibility for the ongoing support of the systems and capabilities implemented during this process.
- Prepare for and conduct regular project status meetings and publish meeting results.
- Provide regular reports on the Project Status such as price, schedule, and performance parameters for all projects as requested
- Demonstrate the continual assessment and mitigation of potential risks to project success as required.
Improve Operations Processes, to include:
- Ensure that all IT Systems have the required documents and artifacts.
- Use available tools consistently to document the high-level operational/functional requirements necessary to evaluate proposed projects.
- Properly document changes to the system requirements.
- Use tools to document and manage requests for new solutions/support (i.e. ServiceNow).
Support Special One-time projects supporting DHHS technology needs. Examples include:
- Active Directory reconciliation projects
- Applications Analysis and Development of Management Capability
- Transition of user data from premise to cloud
Required Technical Skills & Hands-on experience:
Minimum Skill Set:
- At least 5 years of prior project/program management experience at least 4 of which includes experience managing multiple IT initiatives simultaneously
- Prior experience with large-scale projects updating or replacing IT Systems serving more than 1,000 users
- Creation of and use of existing tools to manage the application inventory to determine methods to reduce costs.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and o365.
- Knowledge of software and implementation methodologies
- Prior experience with scope management
- Prior experience in managing contracts greater than $5M
- Industry-recognized Project Management Certification for example ( PMP).
- Excellent oral and written communication skills as evidenced by prior experience in the development of reports or presentations to Executive Leadership
- Experience managing diverse teams, stakeholders and vendors
Preferred Skill Set:
- Experience with government, health and human services programs, organizations, and information systems
- Working knowledge of Electronic Health Record systems
- Knowledge of Case Management Systems
- Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory (AD)
- Prior experience with organizational change management
Education
- BS or BA degree (in a technical field is a plus), master's degree preferred.
Source : Cyquent, Inc