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Brooksource · 2 days ago

Information Technology Project Manager

Castle Rock, CO

Contract

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Brooksource is seeking an IT Project Manager to lead and deliver strategic IT projects within the IT PMO. The role involves managing project lifecycles, ensuring compliance with project management methodologies, and maintaining project documentation and schedules.

EmploymentHuman ResourcesInformation Technology

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Understand, comply with, maintain knowledge and practice defined and approved Project Management methodology, frameworks and processes of the PMO

Take appropriate accountability and responsibility for any/all Projects throughout all phases – engage, motivate, drive and lead/manage the full Project team

Drive Project team and vendors to establish and commit to hitting and delivering to key Gates and Phase dates

Keep and maintain assigned Projects in overall Green RAG status per published guidelines at >90%. For non-Green Project events, execute concise, timely and effective RTG plans, with the goal of remediating status back to Green in an expedited timeline

Drive Project to meet committed dates, minimize Change Requests, and always analyzing how to recover and stay on schedule without sacrificing quality or scope

Maintain a central and well-structured Project artifact repository for governance and information access

Ensure compliance and discipline in the use of and through regular, rigorous and quality updates of PMO mandatory artifacts and administrative reporting requirements and due dates. Conducts periodic artifact audit reviews and results reporting

Run and facilitate timely and effective meetings/stand-ups, prepare your team, provide an agenda, document attendance and notes – follow through with applicable action items

Develop and maintain a clear, detailed and useful Project schedule that incorporates a project’s full scope of work (Team’s, vendor’s) and that ties to delivery phases, delivery milestones, deliverables and tasks assigned to resources

Accurately plan, negotiate, forecast and report on Project resource time allocations on Projects as part of Resource Management – this must include a regular feedback loop between the resource and their line manager

Keep, maintain, and track all active Risks, Action Items, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies, Decisions and Lessons Learned (RAAIDDLL log)

Keep, maintain, and track all budget/financial items for each Project

Escalate issues and blockers as required to Project team and IT leadership (BRM, Sr. Management, Sponsor)

Keep, maintain and distribute effective Project reporting at required cadences: bi-monthly status report, periodic health checks, PRB RTG plan, applicable Business/IT SteerCo, ad hoc updates as required

Update at required cadences applicable PMO / Project dashboards info

Drive to improve Project delivery timelines, quality of delivery, processes, and ways of working

Actively participate in Project Review Board (PRB) process and meetings which governs the prioritization, approvals, status review and change control of active projects

Process and practice contributor to PMO methodologies, frameworks, processes, practices, governance and tools. Assists with continuous improvement and updates of mandatory and standard artifact templates

Other duties as assigned

Qualification

Project Management Professional (PMP)Organizational Change Management (OCM)Information Technology project managementWaterfall methodologyHybrid project managementCost estimationPublic speakingCritical thinkingTeam collaborationEffective communicationAttention to detail

Required

A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Management, Project Management or a closely related field is not required but is highly desired

Ten (10) years of hands-on experience doing Information Technology project management project work with progressive growth in roles, responsibilities and scope/scale of project work, and an indepth knowledge of project management and delivery processes is required (e.g. Waterfall, Hybrid, OCM, etc.)

A verifiable Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the PMI Institute is highly desired. In lieu of a PMP certification, a Master's degree in Project Management (MPM) is recognized as equivalent

General IT knowledge is required to validate tasks and time requirements, with hands-on technical experience is a plus

Ability to create and enhance a positive team environment for users and project teams is essential

Ability to effectively work, multi-task and manage in a fast moving and dynamic environment, and respond to new events, is required

Ability to establish positive, effective working relationships at all levels is mandatory

Attention to detail, especially as relates to determining both tactical and strategic courses of action, in both the short and long term, is required

Ability to assess, prioritize and apply the simplest process or solution to meet the business need is necessary to be successful

Ability to apply logic and thought processes to problems involving multiple dimensions. Critical thinking and application of knowledge to problem resolution

Ability to communicate in a clear, straightforward manner with a variety of customers, departmental managers, and other personnel is required

Cost estimation, design, analysis, and budgeting is required

Ability to identify problems, establish facts, correlate data to a series of events, effectively evaluate risk, and develop logical plans of action for implementing and troubleshooting solutions is required

Ability to effectively communicate status information and resolve technical and personnel conflicts is required

Ability to effectively reason through risk mitigation scenarios, develop corrective courses of actions, and create plans of action with multiple constraints

Ability to work effectively both independently and in a team environment

Ability to analyze business problems, identify business needs, formulate valid conclusions and objectively present those conclusions to any audience is required

This position requires successful completion of a criminal background check including fingerprinting through a national database

Must possess a valid Colorado Driver's License upon hire, with complying insurance

Review of motor vehicle record is required at time of hire and periodically throughout employment

Preferred

A verifiable Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the PMI Institute is highly desired

Organizational Change Management (OCM) certification (CCP) from Prosci and experience is a plus

Experience and comfort in public speaking and presentation to internal and external work groups preferred

Company

Brooksource

Glassdoor4.0

Brooksource is a single source for project and supplemental support through contract employment, contract-to-hire labor employment.

Founded in 2000

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.brooksource.com

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