Project Manager No OPT and CPT - Lansing, United States - StarTekk

Description

Job Description

• 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.

Qualifications:
Qualifications

• Project Management Experience - 2-3 years
• Agile experience - 2-3 years
• Vendor Management (Nice to Have years.
• Ideal candidate is able to work alongside a project management team.

Additional Information

• Years of Experience Minimum 2 years of experience as a Project Manager.
• Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particularfield.
• 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 Generals office.
• Project and program work may be assigned in any of these areas according to work demands.