Project Manager 1

Project Management Opportunity

Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. Relies on limited experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required. May work under supervision of Senior Project or Program Manager, assisting with larger, more complex initiatives.

This PMO area supports the Department of Labor & Economic Opportunity, including Michigan State Housing Development Corporation and Unemployment Insurance Agency, in addition to the Attorney Generals office.

Project and program work may be assigned in any of these areas according to work demands.

Designs, plans, and coordinates work teams. Follows standard project management industry practices such as the PMI's framework.

Understands business and technical objectives of a project and works closely with project sponsor.

Creates project charter and work plan and tracks budget and schedule progress via appropriate metrics.

Establishes project organization and methodologies and defines roles and responsibilities.

Documents risks and develops mitigation plans. Manages scope.

Creates and implements a communication plan. Builds an effective team, assigns tasks to team members, and evaluates outcomes.

Negotiates resources. Communicates to stakeholders and project sponsor. Identifies, tracks, and ensures resolution of issues and removal of barriers.

Provides technical support to project team members. Handles complex application features and technical designs. Designs and implements the components required for complex application features.

Generally, manages a group of applications system analysts.

Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Professional certification is highly desirable.

Top skills/requirements:

• schedule management
• vendor management
• Agile/Scrum preferred

Skills:

• May require specific PC, workstation, operating system, application, or platform skills.
• Provides overall direction to the formulation, development, implementation, and delivery of a project.
• Exercises management responsibility over the achievement of performance, revenue, and profit objectives of a project and its contracts.
• Ensures that the project plan maintains tasks, schedules, estimates, and status, and disseminates information to team members and customers.
• Creates a structure and organization for the management of a complex environment with emphasis on quality, productivity, and consistency.
• Directs corrective actions in any area where performance falls below objectives.
• Arranges for the assignment of responsibility to other supporting facilities, business areas, and support functions, and monitors their performance.
• Self-directed and independent.
• Responsible for the coordination and completion of projects.
• Oversees all aspects of projects. Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project. Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of project.