Senior IT Project Manager (Govt Education Domain)

Responsibilities

• Manage IT Projects to include defining projects, tracking progress and status reporting
• Establish and maintain Project Managements Standards
• Develop a comprehensive project repository to improve the ability to estimate resources for future IT projects
• Establish and maintain an Enterprise Project Portfolio containing multiple projects
• Requirements Management: gathering, analysis, organization and reporting
• Documentation of new development (User Guide, Systems Guide, other)
• Cookordination activities across different organizational functions
• Must be able to effectively communicate (verbal and written) requirements with stakeholders as well as development team
• Must be able to collaborate with Senior Management and other Project Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, QA
• Team, and developers to ensure requirements are communicated, accepted, and meet expectations
• Knowledge of PMI standards and Processes, and success in managing IT projects
• Use of project management and work management tools such as Azure DevOps and Git
• Experience with Information Technology Project Management and K-12 Education
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Must be familiar with software and database development concepts to include test cases, quality assurance, creation of diagrams, flowcharts and work flows of business processes and data flow
• Must be able to translate and simplify requirements from stakeholders into written requirement documents for development team. Documents include Formal Requirements Document, Functional Design Document, Technical Design
• Document, Technical Use Cases, User stories, Business Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test cases
• Provide hands-on project management of enterprise-wide projects including all phases of project life cycle and/or software development life cycle as well as support a project management team
• Strong experience in mapping business processes into technical documentation
• Strong experience in developing Business Cases, Benefit Analysis, and identifying Risks

Qualifications

• Knowledge of PMI standards and Processes, and success in managing IT projects
• Use of project management and work management tools such as Azure DevOps and Git
• Experience with Information Technology Project Management and K-12 Education
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Familiarity with software and database development concepts to include test cases, quality assurance, creation of diagrams, flowcharts and work flows of business processes and data flow
• Ability to translate and simplify requirements from stakeholders into written requirement documents for development team. Documents include Formal Requirements Document, Functional Design Document, Technical Design
• Experience in mapping business processes into technical documentation
• Experience in developing Business Cases, Benefit Analysis, and identifying Risks