[Remote] Project Manager - Mid

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Transcend Staffing Solutions LLC is seeking a mid-level Project Manager to join its Project Management Office and manage complex technology and corporate programs. The role is responsible for directing project teams, maintaining project documentation and schedules, managing risks, issues, budgets, vendors, and changes, and delivering projects on time and within budget.

Responsibilities

• Directs technical leads and other project team members and consultants/contractors
• Development and maintenance of all required project documents including 1) A Project Charter 2) A Project Management Plan 3) Requirements documents 4) Design documents 5) Input to architecture documents 6) Test Plan 7) Test results 8) Implementation Plans 9) Post Implementation and Lessons Learned 10) Project schedules and budgets 11) Resource management plans
• Produces weekly program status reports for each program
• Hold project status and other meetings as necessary
• Manages the project schedule via the use of MS Enterprise Project Management (EPM) and MS Project Professional 2010
• Reports schedule and budget variances
• Creates and maintains SharePoint project site for each project within the EPM system
• Ensure there are quality and well maintained project schedules, baselines and estimates to complete program/project and report variances
• Reports on risks and provides ongoing risk management plan, risk assessment and mitigation within a program/project
• Reports on ongoing issues and changes utilizing existing processes and templates and publishing reports within a program/project
• Creates and publishes weekly status report of activities, accomplishments, issues and action to resolve issues
• Identifies and ensures all activities required to successfully meet the operational readiness review are completed on time
• May create a Statement of Work (SOW) for the Request for Proposal (RFP) and associated vendor response evaluation. Verify the creation of all documents from vendors as outlined in the SOW or creation of new ones as required
• Provides a SOW for ongoing support services as necessary
• Evaluates criteria for product and proposal analysis
• Deliver programs and projects on schedule and on budget
• Present projects at the Quality Gates
• Present projects at the Portfolio Review sessions

Skills

• Bachelors' degree in Project Management, Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Information Systems or an equivalent combination of work experience, training and education
• At least seven years' experience and significant hands-on Program and Project management experience from project initiation to implementation using formal project management methodologies and processes
• At least seven years' experience and significant experience in technology management, analysis and administration
• Demonstrated ability to interact with internal and external stakeholders with evidence of willingness and ability to express and protect departmental interests
• Demonstrated ability to apply strong analytical skills
• Demonstrated effective communicator and writer, able to tailor message to receiving audience
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Demonstrated experience using MS Project Office Professional and MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio
• Experience with project management tools such as MS Project Server (EPM), Primavera, etc
• At least four years' experience with project management tools such as Microsoft Project Server (EPM), etc
• PMP Certified

Benefits

• Remote work arrangement

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