IT Consultant-Project Management

Overview

Client is seeking a hands-on Senior Project Management Officer to manage Project Schedule, Dependencies, Risks, workstream activities, System Integrator (SI) Deliverables and monitor SI staff productivity for DC Client Solution design.

Responsibilities

• The program manager is responsible for creating and onboarding project teams, integrating them into the organization and providing a clear vision of the product. Assist agile teams in efficient implementation and use of AzureDevOps (ADO) to automatically measure and report quality and performance measures to the Program’s Portal.
• Facilitates communication and information exchange between external groups and the project team. They also monitor project progress, provide timely feedback, and drive a culture of agility and learning.
• Define project scope, goals, and deliverables that support milestones in collaboration with business, senior management and stakeholders.
• Develop detailed project plans, communication documents, and manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
• Keep all Parties on Track and Informed: manage daily team meetings to capture updates on progress, address blockers, and ensure the project stays on track.
• Manage a central repository of milestones identified by multiple workstream leads, provide status and escalate risks.
• Maintain a risk and issues registry and track progress.
• Manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.
• Provide oversight of System Integrator Agile Processes by validating staff velocity, and managing time and task submissions on a weekly basis.
• Provide timely metrics and audit outcomes to gauge progress towards quality objectives.
• Promote Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) processes to identify and remove project barriers.

Qualifications

• Conveying technical and functional concepts for a specific technical specialty. Required 16 Years
• Preparing complex technical documentation. Required 16 Years
• Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience. Required 20 Years
• Hands on experience with Azure Dev Ops or JIRA, creating Queries, Dashboards, alerts and data export. Required 3 Years
• Active Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance) or Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (PMI) equivalent certification. Required
• Acting as a Scrum Master. Highly desired 3 Years
• Experience with large scale IT Projects. Required 16 Years
• Experience in Human Services or Child Welfare sector. Highly desired 2 Years
• Project Management Professional Certification. Highly desired
• Hands on MS Project Schedule development skills including tracking dependencies, milestones, resources, and critical path. Required 7 Years
• Hands on Excel and PowerPoint skills to capture, analyze and report data points and progress updates. Highly desired 7 Years
• Hand-on MS Visio experiences documenting Process Flow Charts. Required 5 Years
• Hands on experience producing project artifacts such as a Project Plan, Risk Management plan etc. Required 7 Years
• Professional communication both written and verbal. Required 16 Years

Benefits

Flexible work from home options available.