Project Manager

SCHEDULE: Wednesday onsite (day may be subject to change), 7:00 AM-4:00 PM with 1-hour lunch OR 7:00 AM-3:30 PM with 30-minute lunch DURATION: 2-year contract PAY: $76-81/hr LOCATION: San Diego, CA Job Responsibilities: In this role, you will lead and coordinate multiple small-to-medium projects from initiation through completion, ensuring deliverables meet quality, schedule, budget, and business requirements. Key responsibilities include: Managing multiple projects within a department or business unit, including: Defining project scope, requirements, timelines, milestones, and deliverables. Developing project plans, cost estimates, resource plans, and schedules. Monitoring project progress, risks, issues, budgets, and performance metrics. Coordinating project teams, contractors, consultants, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders. Driving projects to successful completion while maintaining accountability across teams. Analyzing business processes and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and operational performance. Building business cases and project justifications for process improvement and technology enablement initiatives. Supporting technology integration and low-code solutions that improve workflows, reporting, and business processes. Evaluating project benefits, value realization, and change impacts to ensure expected outcomes are achieved. Developing project documentation, user guides, training materials, status reports, and executive-ready presentations. Essential Duties and Job Functions: Lead all phases of project execution, including project scoping, planning, design, implementation, monitoring, and closeout. Develop and maintain project requirements, schedules, milestones, resource plans, budgets, and forecasts. Establish project parameters and ensure deliverables align with business objectives and stakeholder expectations. Monitor project performance and recommend schedule changes, cost adjustments, or additional resources as needed. Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues throughout the project lifecycle. Analyze regulatory impacts and requirements applicable to assigned projects. Provide direction and coordination to contractors, consultants, vendors, and project teams. Coordinate input and participation from multiple departments to achieve project objectives. Facilitate project meetings and document meeting notes, decisions, action items, project status, and follow-up activities. Develop and deliver project status updates and presentations to management, Directors, and Executives as needed. Establish team and project goals and support performance evaluation. Manage workforce planning, budget analysis, and budget forecasting activities related to assigned projects. Perform value realization activities to identify project benefits, outcomes, and organizational change impacts. Analyze data and KPIs to identify trends, inefficiencies, errors, and opportunities for improvement. Develop, refine, and maintain end-to-end process flows supporting system functionality, user experience, and operational efficiency. Document and manage project requirements, including analysis, prioritization, traceability, approvals, and change control. Support application user management by serving as a liaison between stakeholders and third-party application providers. Troubleshoot application and user issues and coordinate updates to custom forms, configurations, and related functionality. Develop and maintain user guides, training materials, and other project documentation. Perform special projects in support of departmental objectives. Perform other duties as assigned. Knowledge & Skills: Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. Demonstrated ability to develop project plans, track milestones, manage risks and issues, and drive projects to completion. Strong requirements management skills, including documenting, analyzing, prioritizing, tracing, and controlling requirements. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills. Ability to facilitate meetings, document action items, and communicate project status clearly to stakeholders and leadership. Strong analytical, problem-solving, critical-thinking, and decision-making skills. Ability to analyze complex data and identify errors, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement. Knowledge of project risk management, quality management, budget management, and KPI/metric monitoring. Strong documentation and records management skills. Ability to influence without authority and work effectively with diverse stakeholder groups. Ability to work independently, prioritize competing demands, and solve problems proactively in a fast-paced environment. Strong understanding of process improvement and continuous improvement methodologies. Experience developing process flows and identifying opportunities for technology-enabled process improvements. Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Experience with Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI, preferred. Experience with Smartsheet, including dashboards, automated workflows, forms, and project trackers, preferred. Ability to develop clear documentation, reporting dashboards, presentations, and organized project materials. Education & Experience: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience. 2-5 years of relevant project management experience. Experience managing small-to-medium projects involving multiple stakeholders, contractors, vendors, or departments. Experience with process improvement, business analysis, or continuous improvement initiatives preferred. Experience with Microsoft Power Platform, Smartsheet, Power BI, or similar process automation and reporting technologies preferred. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred. Lean Six Sigma certification, minimum Yellow Belt, preferred. Working knowledge of Lean Six Sigma and continuous improvement tools and methodologies preferred. #J-18808-Ljbffr