Senior Project Manager

Role: - Senior Project Manager


Start Date: 04/22/2024


End Date: 04/21/2025


Location: Raleigh, NC


Interview type: Webcam Interview Only

Complete Description:

**The candidate will need to come onsite on the first day to collect equipment.**



Qualified candidates must be local to the Triangle region of North Carolina, and posting may require up to 1-2 days per month in a Triangle area office for meetings.**


Senior Project Manager Required Skills:

1. The candidate must have a minimum of 5 years of experience managing large IT Web development projects.
2. Fluency in Project Management tools such as Microsoft Project, Visio, and Office required.
3. Experience with Project Management Office methodologies and practices is strongly preferred.
4. Experience with the core IT procurement processes (RFP, SOW) is preferred.
5. Current Project Management Professional (PMP) through PMI Required 5 Years
6. Experience Managing Large Projects Required 5 Years
7. Microsoft Office Products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project) Highly desired 5 Years
8. Employed as an IT Professional Required 10 Years

Senior Project Manager Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Coordinate vendors and consultants, and agency IT and business staff as assigned, in the execution of IT projects and related procurements.
2. Coordinate and oversee the development of proposals, statement of work, statement of requirements and RFP responses.
3. Assist management in holding teams accountable for their commitments and removing roadblocks to their work.
4. Facilitate multi-disciplinary teams in the development of plans, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures for completion of a project.
5. Oversee and manage execution and/or coordination of day-to-day project activities as required.
6. Manage working relationships with key stakeholders, including vendors, suppliers, and technology management.
7. Set project goals that are consistent with technical objectives and the agency's overall technology strategy.
8. Track and communicate a project's progress from a schedule, cost, and risk perspective to the project team, customers, and project stakeholders.
9. Collaborate with technology leads and solution architects to incorporate agency best practices into project plans.
10. Drive consistent project delivery through the entire project lifecycle, including, execution of procurements, definition of project plans, resource allocation, management of project risks, scope, and schedule, delivery of value, and well-ordered transitions to operations.
11. Monitor progress by third-party vendors and define and measure their progress with metrics.
12. Develop and maintain project budget, plans, task lists, schedules, risks, and status, to include resource allocation and schedules.
13. Adhere to agency and SDLC project management practices and governance requirements.
14. Exhibit significant emotional quotient (EQ) in handling project challenges and maintain a positive project culture in line with agency mission and shared values.
15. Additional responsibilities as assigned.
16. Strong experience leading the business and IT resources through the discovery and documentation of business and technical requirements in request for proposal and statement of requirement formats.
17. Strong analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills.
18. Exceptional interpersonal skills for collaborating and team building
19. Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the demonstrated ability to simplify and briefly, succinctly communicate complex issues to multiple audiences.
20. Ability to lead others to implement new approaches, systems, structures, and methods.
21. Communicate timelines and expectations to technical and business staff.
22. Ability to analyze and document system processes.

Solid understanding of software development life cycle models