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IT Project Manager


Reference Number: NPGAGP65

IT Project Manager
experience  Not Disclosed
location  Atlanta, GA
duration  5.5 Months
salary  Not Disclosed
jobtype  Not Disclosed
Industry  Government - State
duration  $55.92/hour - $60.92/hour
Job Description

Hybrid Work Schedule: 2-3 days onsite

Description:

Under broad supervision, manages projects through full life cycle from project definition through implementation of project deliverables.
Creates collaborative partnership with all internal and external team members to accomplish the deliverables.

The client IT Project Manager (PM) will assist in the management of multiple internal and external end to end technical projects, documentation, and processes while reinforcing defined infrastructure and software best practices. The PM will assist with implementing process improvement, documentation management, organization, and project guidelines to ensure project follow through, timeliness, and accuracy. Able to run large projects with minimal oversight.

Core Competencies:
Communication to collaborate often and follow-up with and support engineering management
Attention to Detail to review incoming emails, timelines, resources, and process alignment
Organization of daily project elements garnered in meetings that need to be planned and organized
Flexibility to adapt to changing program demands
Data Visualization Creation and Analysis that comes in the form of dashboards and data to help understand team velocity and/or milestone progress

Responsibilities:
Collaborate with other project managers, clients, vendors, and engineering teams on various projects, presentations, and meetings ensuring follow-up and adequate communication for continuous alignment.
Understand Agile practices and use them in a hybrid organization to facilitate Waterfall project tracking in a traditional project schedule and use Kanban and Scrum practices with development and engineering teams.
Provide attention to detail to internal and external email communications to analyze in order to produce relevant and valuable responses to maintain organizational relationships and project visibility.
Identify relevant audiences for meetings, ensuring thorough meeting preparation and creating project charter and kick off presentations that provide information such as business driver, targeted audience, communications plan, scope, project phases, and next steps for planning project schedule activities with technical teams.
Conduct meeting analysis that results in facilitation of routine meetings/ceremonies to track projects and maintain project boards and dashboards using Jira and ServiceNow.
Understand when and how to escalate to other groups when necessary.
Consistently maintain project status, update project roadmaps, and adhere to defined project structure standards with the integrated tool stack provided.
Ability to draft process and 'how to' documentation.
Assist with identifying project constraints, risks, inefficiencies, and areas where processes can be improved and/or reinforced.
Reinforce agreed upon priorities, policies, and team best practices.
Utilize project management software i.e., SharePoint Project Template, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Project Online, etc.
Maintain, update, and archive project documentation.
Familiar with all functions of Outlook including alert functions and the ability to schedule meetings utilizing the Scheduling Assistant.
Generate and archive notes from project meetings that add value to management decision-making
Ensure communication channels are made available for all projects to enable adequate communication and escalation process among project team members.
Hybrid with the expectation to come onsite office as needed.

Experience:
3 to 5 years of project management in technology
Some college experience or applicable certifications (preferred) or college degree (preferred)
Highly proficient in writing and editing
Experience extracting scope from contractual documentation

Required / Desired Skills

Skill Required / Desired Amount of Experience:
3 to 5 years of project management in an IT enterprise environment Required 3 Years
Some college experience or applicable certifications (preferred) or college degree (preferred) Nice to have 2 Years

Notes:
Hybrid Work Schedule: 2-3 days onsite


VIVA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants have an equal opportunity for placement, and all employees have an equal opportunity to develop on the job. This means that VIVA will not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status

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