Program Manager/Project Manager

Job Description Our Direct Client is seeking an experienced, full-time, on-site, dedicated Candidate, with skills and expertise as described in below requirement. Responsibilities: Advanced experience managing programs of projects, complex projects or multiple projects. Demonstrated and advanced understanding of project management methodologies. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. A significant degree of creativity and latitude is required. Works under limited supervision with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.

• 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.
• 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.

One of the project required is to implement and use Salesforce as a hearings file management and document management replacement for the Hearings Tracking System (HTS) currently being utilized by Treasury Hearings Division. Current legacy system is in Delphi and unsupported and was identified as a critical finding in the last IRS audit. New system will comply and meet IRS requirements as it is a FISMA compliant and FedRAMP certified cloud-based solution. Project was put on hold a year ago when Salesforce was not pub1070 compliant. Recently Salesforce has upgraded their platform and became compliant with FedRAMP. Due to upcoming changes in the Internet Technologies Landscape which will impact all of Client’s workstation, we are required to implement some changes with Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash Player and Java Runtime Engine Licensing. These three technologies are rapidly approaching their End of Life (EOL) for technical support from their respective manufacturer. Skill Required/Desired Solid skills in project management utilizing a formal project management methodology. - Required 7 Years Solid skills in project scheduling utilizing a project scheduling tool such as MS Project. - Required 5 Years Experience with PPM tool like Clarity - Desired 5 Years Strong leadership and communication skills. - Required 7 Years Ability to communicate technical terminology at levels appropriate to the audience both orally and in writing. - Required 7 Years Experience in project planning, scheduling, tracking, issue/risk management, and status reporting. - Required 7 Years Experience managing projects utilizing Agile Scrum. - Nice to have 2 Years Project Management Professional certification from PMI. - Nice to have State of Michigan SUITE experience or comparable methodologies. - Highly desired Experience developing Project Charter, Project Communication Plan, Risk/Issue Plan, Resource Plan and definition of budget estimates. - Required 5 Years Experience managing managing infrastructure and application development projects. - Required 2 Years 800 Corporate Drive, Suite 301-500 Stafford, VA, 22554 Phone - View phone number on click.appcast.io Fax - View phone number on click.appcast.io #J-18808-Ljbffr Peoplecorp America Inc