Level 2 Project Manager

Somerset Staffing•Albany, NY

About The Position

The Level 2 Project Manager will be responsible for managing key components of the project scope, schedule, and budget. This includes managing variances, overseeing staffing plans, and implementing alternatives to mitigate project risks. The role involves managing risks, issues, communications, actions, and project interdependencies. The Project Manager will lead project team members in a matrixed environment to ensure high-quality task delivery and expected project value. Responsibilities include facilitating detailed task planning with technical resources, managing resources in a matrix organization, and collaborating with management on resource allocations. Proactive identification and assessment of project risks, mitigation strategies, and issue resolution with stakeholders are crucial. The role also involves facilitating project meetings, preparing agendas and minutes, and ensuring project objectives and roles are clearly understood. Additionally, the Project Manager will oversee and coordinate vendors supporting rules extraction and use case documentation.

Requirements

Level II- Between four (4) and seven (7) years of experience as a Project Manager
Experience of at least 2 years working on State or Federal government projects as a project manager.
3 to 5 years experience working on Agile and Waterfall or a hybrid development and technical project manager.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's or Master's degree in information technology, Business or Public Administration, Project Management and/or Communications
Current PMP from the Project Management Institute
Certified Scrum Master
Candidates with previous IES experience are strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Managing key components of the project scope, schedule and budget, including managing variances, overseeing staffing plans, and implementing alternatives to mitigate project risk related to scope, schedule and budget.
Managing risks, issues, communications, actions, and project interdependencies for assigned key components of the project scope.
Managing project team members, in a matrixed environment, so that the team members' tasks are delivered with a high degree of quality and contribute the expected value to the project.
Facilitating detailed task planning with technical resources that includes managing resources, in a matrix management organization, and collaborating with management on resource allocations based on project priorities.
Proactively identifying and assessing project risks and mitigation strategies along with managing associated mitigation plans with the project stakeholder community.
Identifying and persistently pursuing issue resolution with team project members and the project stakeholder community.
Facilitating project meetings to clarify business needs and promote decision making, including preparing agendas and meeting minutes and action items.
Collaborating with project team members and project stakeholders to ensure project objectives are understood and that roles and responsibilities are well defined.
Overseeing and coordinating vendors that support rules extraction and use case documentation, including scope adherence, methodology adherence, resource management, deliverable review, deliverable approval, and progress reporting.
Other duties as assigned.