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Job Information
Job title

Project Manager

Company Phoenix Consulting
Wage Not specified
Location United States, Florida, Tallahassee
Employment type Contract to Perm
Education Not Specified
Year Experience 1 - 2 Years of Practical Experience
Travel Not Specified
Published on 6/23/2006
Description
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to work with our client on an existing project. The goals for this position are:

To ensure the timely and successful project delivery by creating, maintaining and refining detailed project plans (including work breakdown structures), tracking project schedules and technical performance and leading both the business and technical teams.

Project deliverables will follow the DOH information system development methodology (RUP) and project management best practices as detailed in PMBOK and the DOH PMO.


This project manager role will help to allocate resources, shape priorities, and coordinate interaction with the customers, users and stakeholders to keep the project team focused on the right goals. This project manager will also follow a standard set of practices that ensure the integrity and quality of project artifacts.

Requirements of the Project Manager
  • Extensive experience in managing successful, large-scale IT projects that includes software analysis, design and programming

  • Extensive experience with User Acceptance Testing methodologies and documentation

  • Extensive experience using Microsoft Project to track and maintain projects

  • Ability to develop and maintain detailed project plans (work breakdown structures)

  • Extensive experience with meeting facilitation and documentation

  • Experience creating and presenting internal and external status reports and detailed status reports suitable for presentation to the Legislature or Steering Committee

  • Ability to lead the project team and effectively conduct the project to meet project objectives

  • Experience in delivering the project in the agreed schedule, to the correct technical specification (i.e. defined to meet user requirements) within the approved budget and other specified criteria

  • Strong communication and collaborative skills

  • Government, Legislative or Health Industry project experience desired

  • Experience working with the Rational Unified Process desired.

Objectives

The objectives and tasks to be performed by this project manager include the following:
  • Report to the Data Processing Manager and/or Bureau Chief assigned to each project

  • Assist with the allocation of resources

  • Shape project-related priorities

  • Coordinate interaction with the customers, users and stakeholders and to keep the project team focused on the right goals

  • This project manager will also follow a standard set of practices that ensure the integrity and quality of project artifacts.

Deliverables

Key deliverables include weekly and monthly status reports detailing accomplishments, issues and tasks in progress and will meet PMO standards. Other deliverables include but are not limited to:
  • Project Planning, Organization, Implementation

  • Project Control Processes, Procedures, Change Control

  • Risk Management (risk tracking, mitigation and issue tracking)

  • Program Planning, Work Breakdown Structures, Scheduling and Control

  • Budget and Financial Management including Cost Analysis/ Cost Benefits

  • Acquisition Planning and Management

  • Deployment plans

  • QA and UAT plans.


NOTE:Include the position number 1333 in the subject header of all correspondence to prevent email messages from being mis-directed


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Experience/Skills
PMP, PMBOK, RUP

Other desired skills:
Project Manager
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