Title: Project Manager 1
Location: Lansing, MI
Interview: Webcam only
Top Skills & Years of Experience Required:
- Schedule management
- Vendor Management
- Agile/Scrum (strongly preferred)
Please See Full Job Description below
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Years of Experience: Minimum 3 years of experience as a Project Manager.
Job Description
Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular
field. Relies on limited experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. A
certain degree of creativity and latitude is required. May work under
supervision of Senior Project or Program Manager, assisting with larger, more
complex initiatives. This PMO area supports the Department of Labor & Economic
Opportunity, including Michigan State Housing Development Corporation and
Unemployment Insurance Agency, in addition to the Attorney General’s office.
Project and program work may be assigned in any of these areas according to work
demands.
• Designs, plans, and coordinates work teams. Follows standard project
management industry practices such as the PMI's framework. Understands business
and technical objectives of a project and works closely with project sponsor.
Creates project charter and work plan and tracks budget and schedule progress
via appropriate metrics. Establishes project organization and methodologies and
defines roles and responsibilities. Documents risks and develops mitigation
plans. Manages scope. Creates and implements a communication plan. Builds an
effective team, assigns tasks to team members, and evaluates outcomes.
Negotiates resources. Communicates to stakeholders and project sponsor.
Identifies, tracks, and ensures resolution of issues and removal of barriers.
Provides technical support to project team members. Handles complex application
features and technical designs. Designs and implements the components required
for complex application features. Generally, manages a group of applications
system analysts. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
Professional certification is highly desirable.
• May require specific PC, workstation, operating system, application, or
platform skills. Provides overall direction to the formulation, development,
implementation, and delivery of a project. Exercises management responsibility
over the achievement of performance, revenue, and profit objectives of a project
and its contracts. Ensures that the project plan maintains tasks, schedules,
estimates, and status, and disseminates information to team members and
customers. Creates a structure and organization for the management of a complex
environment with emphasis on quality, productivity, and consistency. Directs
corrective actions in any area where performance falls below objectives.
Arranges for the assignment of responsibility to other supporting facilities,
business areas, and support functions, and monitors their performance.
Self-directed and independent. Responsible for the coordination and completion
of projects. Oversees all aspects of projects. Sets deadlines, assigns
responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project. Prepares
reports for upper management regarding status of project.
• Top skills/requirements: schedule management, vendor management, Agile/Scrum
preferred