Project Manager

Job ID: VA-705259 Remote Project Manager (PMP/CSM) with Agile, Waterfall, Azure DevOps, JIRA, Project+, PRINCE2, and government experience Location: Richmond, VA ( VDACS) Duration: 6 months Skills: - Project Manager 8 years of experience Required - 8 Years Sr exp with Agile Required - 8 Years Sr exp with Waterfall Required - 8 Years Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Required - 6 Years Sr PM exp with software development projects Required - 5 Years Exp with scope, budget, risk Highly desired - 5 Years Active PMP certification (A Plus) Desired - AzureDevOps Desired - JIRA Desired - Prior exp within State Gov (Commonwealth of Virginia preferred) Desired - VDACS projects involve information technology services towards Virginia state's Agriculture and Consumer Services. Projects include building and maintaining applications for the business groups and Enhancements to the current technology where DBA's and Developers are involved. Job Duties - Manage work breakdown structures and Azure DevOps or JIRA tasks to coordinate work necessary to complete project milestones. Must apply discipline and consistency to continually add, update, and manage tasks, task assignments, task statuses, and task estimates. - Produce project schedules, budget projections, and status reports based on detailed project data. - Manage projects utilizing a team of in-house and vendor technical staff performing software development, infrastructure upgrades and migrations, implementations, and other technical projects to deliver line-of-business functionality for both internal VDACS users and citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia. - Develop and manage project plans, risk plans, communication plans, and other formal project management documents. - Coordinate activities of internal and external technical teams between stakeholders, including vendor partners, for projects as needed. - Identify changes to scope, budget, or time-line, notify customers of risks, make modifications and resolve problems within a mutually agreed upon timeliness. - Maintain project status information and provide project status reports to Information Systems management and project stakeholders. - Ensure that project activities comply with VDACS and Commonwealth policies and standards, including security standard and required documentation Required: - Experience managing software development projects using Agile and Waterfall methodologies. - PMP desired (not required) – experience as solid PM w/required tools/background is what matters most. - Experience managing projects in a technical environment, particularly in an information systems or software development environment. - Experience managing vendor and contractor resources in coordination with internal staff resources. - Knowledge of and ability to apply one or more formal project management disciplines such as the PMP Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), Project + framework, PRINCE2 methodologies, or other industry recognized project management framework. - Capable of producing well-documented project plans, risk management plans, change management plans, work breakdown structures, budgets, and project status reports. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills to include the ability to clearly communicate project status and planning concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. - The demonstrated ability to effectively interact with, and provide customer service to, all levels of the organization, customers and partners. Job Duties (Day to Day) - Manage work breakdown structures and Azure DevOps or JIRA tasks to coordinate work necessary to complete project milestones. Must apply discipline and consistency to continually add, update, and manage tasks, task assignments, task statuses, and task estimates. - Produce project schedules, budget projections, and status reports based on detailed project data. - Manage projects utilizing a team of in-house and vendor technical staff performing software development, infrastructure upgrades and migrations, implementations, and other technical projects to deliver line-of-business functionality for both internal VDACS users and citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia. - Develop and manage project plans, risk plans, communication plans, and other formal project management documents. - Coordinate activities of internal and external technical teams between stakeholders, including vendor partners, for projects as needed. - Identify changes to scope, budget, or time-line, notify customers of risks, make modifications and resolve problems within a mutually agreed upon timeliness. - Maintain project status information and provide project status reports to Information Systems management and project stakeholders. - Ensure that project activities comply with VDACS and Commonwealth policies and standards, including security standard and required documentation Preferred: - Certification in a formal project management disciplines such as the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), Project + framework, PRINCE2 methodologies, or other industry recognized project management framework. - Certification managing an agile project management approach such as Scrum.