Positions with Project Strategies:
Project Manager, Project Coordinators
The resources assigned to this role are expected to be leaders of projects. Activities for this role include team leadership, scope control, delivery control, and process execution. The PM is ultimately responsible for the client team's ability to deliver the promised outputs within the agreed upon schedule and budget constraints.
Skills required:
- Experience managing a full project life cycle including design, development, testing and deployment.
- Experience with application architecture and design for projects.
- Business Process automation/improvement/management experience (design and implementation are a plus)
- Ability to make difficult decisions and the ability to deliver difficult messages to team and/or management.
- Ability to create easy-to-read documentation as well as ability to present to large audiences.
- Ability to create and deliver presentations to executive level audiences.
- Ability to build a project plan with appropriate breakdown structure; ability to demonstrate 'deliverables-to-work-to-staff' relationship in project plan; ability to define objective milestone events that are used to track progress of the project
- Ability to secure required approvals to initiate projects; ability to control changes that are proposed to a project and ability to resolve obstacles to projects including personnel performance, resource conflict, etc.
- Ability to travel to account teams and customer sites as needed. Most work can be executed remotely.
Tasks:
- Initiation: Creation of initial project estimates. Development of statements of work, etc.
- Planning: Staff allocation, baseline budget, personnel assignment plans
- Execution: Weekly work assignments, staffing adjustments, communication with customer contacts, team, etc.
- Control: Scope change management, validation of work completion, acceptance of work products.
- Closure: Team performance assessment (budget vs actual), personnel performance assessment, lessons learned and continuous process improvement assessment, delivery of project documentation.
This position offers a very competitive contract rate and bonuses twice a year.
Contact info@project-strategies.com for additional information.
You will LOVE working with Project Strategies!
