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  • ID
    #9648123
  • Job type
    Contract
  • Salary
    Depends on Experience
  • Source
    Technovision, Inc.
  • Date
    2021-02-15
  • Deadline
    2021-04-16

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Our direct client is looking for Senior Project Manager for a Contract position in Harrisburg, PA.Description: - The Conservation and Environment Delivery Center is looking for an experienced and motivated project manager/scrum master. - The selected candidate will serve as scrum master for one of the scrum teams within the delivery center. - This team supports several mission critical applications for one of our agencies and so this position will require regular interaction with agency and IT executive management.- As our delivery center is a hybrid project management environment, ideal candidates should have strong experience both running projects as a traditional project manager and serving as a scrum master on a scrum team. Knowledge and experience in additional agile frameworks is a plus. This position reports to the business and service management director for the delivery center.Primary responsibilities include:- Developing and maintaining project control documents in accordance with enterprise project management methodologies and as needed by the project.- Developing detailed project plans using project scheduling tools.- Leading all project plan development activities, including identification of phases, activities, tasks, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, schedules and assignment of resources.- Motivating project resources to complete assigned duties and tasks.- Preparing formal reports on the status and health of the IT projects, including periodic status reports, management dashboards and project metrics.- Monitoring project quality, schedule and budget and facilitate actions to mitigate risk and address issues that arise.- Facilitating risk and issue management for IT projects by promoting transparency and communication for identified risks.- Facilitating deliverable and project artifact approval processes for IT projects by tracking all deliverables and The Conservation and Environment Delivery Center is looking for an experienced and motivated project manager/scrum master. The selected candidate will serve as scrum master for one of the scrum teams within the delivery center. This team supports several mission critical applications for one of our agencies and so this position will require regular interaction with agency and IT executive management.- As our delivery center is a hybrid project management environment, ideal candidates should have strong experience both running projects as a traditional project manager and serving as a scrum master on a scrum team. Knowledge and experience in additional agile frameworks is a plus. This position reports to the business and service management director for the delivery center.Primary responsibilities include:- Developing and maintaining project control documents in accordance with enterprise project management methodologies and as needed by the project.- Developing detailed project plans using project scheduling tools.- Leading all project plan development activities, including identification of phases, activities, tasks, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, schedules and assignment of resources.- Motivating project resources to complete assigned duties and tasks.- Preparing formal reports on the status and health of the IT projects, including periodic status reports, management dashboards and project metrics.- Monitoring project quality, schedule and budget and facilitate actions to mitigate risk and address issues that arise.- Facilitating risk and issue management for IT projects by promoting transparency and communication for identified risks.- Facilitating deliverable and project artifact approval processes for IT projects by tracking all deliverables and project artifacts that require approvals, communicating the need for approvals to the appropriate groups and individuals and tracking approval decisions and following up where need be to ensure approvals are achieved within established timeframes.- Managing the project change control process for issues that impact the quality, schedule or budget of the project.- Facilitating project meetings as needed, including scrum events such as retrospectives and reviews.- Ensuring the upkeep and accuracy of the project in the commonwealth’s project portfolio management system (Daptiv) to include project status, health, and timekeeping data.- Working closely with agency business relationship managers, executive staff, and delivery center management to ensure project success and provide project status.- Using knowledge of agile practices and frameworks (in particular Scrum and Kanban) to support and serve the agile teams in the delivery center.- Serving as scrum master for agile development teams.- Influencing and leading organizational change that positively impacts our agile teams.- Providing and delivering project reports, presentations, and statuses to all levels of management with the delivery center and our customer agencies.- Ensuring compliance with SDLC policies and procedures - Directing, coordinating, and tracking the activities of delivery center staff associated with the project.Skill Matrix:- full-time experience as a project manager for large and complex information technology projects - Required- full-time experience serving as a scrum master on a scrum team - Required - Strong oral and written communication skills. Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate at all levels of an organization, including executive st - Required- Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate others to complete tasks - Required- PMP or scrum master certification - Strong plus to have- experience in utilizing agile project management methodologies - Strong plus to haveQuestion 1: All positions are onsite positions. The remote work is to be considered temporary, due to the Coronavirus. All positions are required to report on site at the Rachel Carson State Office Building or the Department of Agriculture immediately if/when restrictions are lifted. Are you fine with this?Question 2 : The candidate will be required to report to Harrisburg, PA at the start of their contract to receive Commonwealth issued equipment if selected. Are you fine with this?Question 3: All positions will have a 37.5 hour work week. Overtime is not permitted without prior permission. Are you fine with this?Location: Harrisburg, PAType: Contract Please send resume to "jobs at etechnovision dot com" with A2940A in Subject for immediate consideration.

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