IT Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Maintaining expert level knowledge and skills relative to System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Project Management Office (PMO) templates
• Creating and maintaining the Project Plan
• Monitoring the ongoing project activities against the PPP and any project performance baselines
• Monitoring and controlling project scope, cost, and schedule
• Tracking all project performance against any performance metrics
• Working in partnership with the project team, infrastructure team, and project vendors to manage the release of new software
• Viewing stakeholders/business owners’ functional duties holistically to understand impact of dependent/inter-related business functions
• Chairing project and status meetings
• Managing project related issues by determining the source of those issues in system requirements, data, performance, workflow, business process, quality of the software or training
• Managing project related issues by determining issue impact as high, medium, or low and creating strategies for issue resolution
• Managing project related issues by assessing where the issue should be assigned
• Managing project related issues by consistently reviewing all updates to issues and ensuring that there is complete and thorough documentation and appropriate assignment
• Managing project related issues by controlling changes and recommending corrective or preventive actions
• Maintaining and updating risk register, including determining the probability and impact of all risks and developing risk contingency, mitigation, or avoidance options
• Ensuring each software release patch contains: vendor test results, JIS required configurations, and release notes
• Creating and reviewing integrated change control requests
• Creating and maintaining project artifacts as needed
• Preparing regular and ad hoc reports

Skills Required

• Work 40 hours per week Monday-Friday during core business hours (8:30am-5:30)
• Work a flexible schedule including evenings, nights, weekends and holidays during go-live work
• Provide on-call operational support as required outside normal operating hours during go-live work
• Excellent oral communication
• Detail oriented
• Skilled in business process analysis
• Skilled in data review and data migration
• Knowledge of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
• Knowledge and ability to utilize standards and guidelines relative to JIS Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Highly organized with the ability to keep track of multiple projects, requirements, action items, and following through to task closure
• Ability to work in a matrixed organization to align resources toward project deliverables
• Ability to work on multiple projects and objectives
• Ability to translate technical concepts into business terms
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with peers, end users and vendor development staff, all levels of management, and judicial personnel as necessary