Senior Project Management Specialist
DEW Softech Inc•Dover, DE
•Onsite
About The Position
We are seeking a Senior Project Management Specialist for a 12-month+ contract opportunity that is onsite in Dover, DE. The Senior Project Management Specialist (SPMS) directs, controls, administers, and manages an enhancement or development of medium to large and/or enterprise-wide project(s). The Project Management Specialist’s primary responsibility is to drive the entire project/program from start to finish. The Project Management Specialist must ensure that the project/program is completed on schedule and that the final product meets the business, technical standards and policies.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in related field required
- 7+ years of experience managing medium to large-scale IT, software development, or enterprise-wide technology projects from initiation through implementation
- Experience developing project plans, managing project schedules, and ensuring on-time delivery of project milestones
- Proven ability to manage project scope, risks, issues, changes, and stakeholder expectations while maintaining adherence to established project governance processes
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and coordinating with business stakeholders, technical teams, and client organizations throughout the project lifecycle
- Strong program and project reporting experience, including tracking KPIs, presenting status updates to leadership, and ensuring successful project completion and stakeholder approval
Responsibilities
- Develop estimates for the enhancement or development effort in planning, analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation
- Accountable for delivery of all work tasks identified in the program plan
- Capture and report required program management metrics
- Adjust and revise estimates when necessary
- Ensure all changes to scope follow processes and are documented
- Ensure new estimates are approved by the client and agreed upon
- Manage, and track the program progress against the program plan
- Monitor project milestones and phases to ensure the project is on schedule
- Take corrective actions if a project begins to slip its schedule
- Accountable for the final program management evaluation review with stakeholders for approval upon program completion
- Tailor and baseline all program templates
- Schedule or monitor status reviews, peer reviews, program management inspections, and software quality assurance work product and process reviews with the appropriate designated resources
- Notify team leads of project timelines, milestones, phases, work requests target dates, and approved executable work package
- Communicate and work with users and client as necessary
- Coordinate and present proposals to agencies as necessary
- Analyze and distribute reports on program metrics associated with work items related to improvement measures
- Ensure processes and activities are followed
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
