Project Manager II (Contract Talent)

Robert Half•San Ramon, CA

1d•$45 - $66

About The Position

As an IT Project Manager II, you will be responsible for coordinating, reporting status, and ensuring the stability of project-oriented work efforts. You will plan priorities that impact multiple projects and have end-to-end delivery responsibility for projects involving multiple issues and technology platforms. This role serves as the project point of contact for communications, milestones, and review briefings, ensuring effective transition into production and meeting production acceptance readiness criteria. You will develop, update, and maintain project plans and other project documentation, and organize meetings to ensure flow, participation, progress, and proactive mitigation of risks and issues. You will manage and lead project teams in all project activities, including analysis, design, development, testing, training, implementation, and post-implementation. Additionally, you will assign tasks, provide guidance, and mentor the project team, plan and direct schedules to ensure timely and within-budget project completion, and consider impacts to the project timeline, taking action to minimize them while carefully controlling change. You will analyze and facilitate the resolution of issues, interact with stakeholders and team members to manage project scope, and identify, evaluate, communicate, and escalate issues. You will communicate project status within and across departments, ensuring accuracy, comprehensiveness, and proactive addressing of issues and risks. You will also proactively define and implement communication mechanisms to meet the needs of team members and stakeholders at all levels, overseeing team communications for high effectiveness. Overall, you will be responsible for status reporting and the stability of project-oriented work efforts, independently tracking key project milestones and adjusting plans or resources as needed. Issues and risk reporting and communications will also be a key part of this role.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required, preferably in IT Project Management.
CaPM desired (or comparable PM certification).
7+ years’ IT experience of which is required 4+ years’ project management experience.
Budget management: consistently maintains and uses project budget and actuals tracking to ensure costs are maintained within the specified tolerance level.
Impact analysis: consistently able to assess impact for, with minimal supervision, each project aspect and determine if project can expand or not to address new idea.
Project planning: consistently able to independently translate functional requirements into project plans.
Project implementation: consistently able to effectively implement all project phases.
Project management fundamentals: advanced knowledge of schedule, risk management, issues management, leadership.
Documentation: consistently clear, accurate.
Communication: consistently demonstrates advanced clear, articulate, concise; verbal and written.
Organization/prioritization: consistently utilized and effective over own work.
Demonstrated effective (intermediate level) use and experience with MS Project, Visio, and Excel.
Leadership skills: demonstrated experience in overall lead role (senior project level, management/direction setting experience).
Decision making skills, problem analysis and solving skills (demonstrated experience in using these skills in a project management role).
Matrix management skills.
Demonstrated experience incorporating development software life cycle into project plan.
General knowledge of IT applications and infrastructure environment.
General ability to maintain forward progress despite conflicting priorities and competition for resources.

Responsibilities

Coordinate, report status, and ensure stability of project oriented work efforts.
Plan priorities which impact multiple projects.
End-to-end delivery responsibility for projects with multiple issues and technology platforms.
Project point of contact for communications, milestones and review briefings.
Assure effective transition into production and meet production acceptance readiness criteria.
Develop, update and maintain project plan and other project documentation.
Effective organization of meetings to ensure flow, participation, progress, proactive mitigation of risks and issues.
Manage, lead project team in, project activities including analysis, design and development, testing, training, implementation and post implementation.
Assign tasks, provide guidance, mentor project team.
Plan and direct schedules to ensure the project is completed on time and within budget.
Consider impacts to project timeline and takes action to minimize them; carefully controls change.
Analyze and facilitate resolution of issues.
Interact with necessary stakeholders/team members to manage project scope and identify, evaluate, communicate, escalate issues.
Communicate status of project within and across departments. Ensure project status is accurate, comprehensive, and proactively addresses issues and risks, and is published according to plan.
Proactively define and implement communications mechanisms that meet the needs of individual team members and project stakeholders at all levels. Oversee communications on the part of the team to ensure high degree of effectiveness.
Overall status reporting and stability of project oriented work efforts.
Independently track key project milestones and adjusts project plans and/or resources to meet the needs of the project.
Issues and risk reporting and communications as appropriate.