Project Manager

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Project Manager overseeing technical initiatives for the VA Office of Information and Technology. Responsible for project planning, management, and team collaboration within a remote setting.

Responsibilities:

  • Creates integrated project plans for contract deliverables and new products in development projects.
  • Manages a project team comprised of a multidisciplinary staff.
  • Reviews, manages and controls status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.
  • Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
  • Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with team members and line managers.
  • Generally reports to a Program Manager.
  • Manages the direction of a project through the design, implementation, and testing in accordance with project objectives.
  • Defines requirements and plans project lifecycle deployment.
  • Schedules tasks and coordinates with various team members to accomplish the results.
  • Manages the integration of vendor tasks and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables.
  • Ensures adherence to quality standards and reviews project deliverables.
  • Conducts project meetings and is responsible for project tracking, analysis and reporting.
  • Supports program management, governance, oversight, and executive level reporting
  • Manages competing priorities, address data calls, and provide ongoing progress reports
  • Documents and provides recommendations for technical management approaches on projects/products
  • Creates strategic roadmaps, with alignment to goals and operations plans
  • Documents, tracks, and monitors project, program, system, product, and various performance metrics and report progress with recommendations or innovative approaches for improvement, organizational maturity, and/or optimization
  • Supports fast turnaround requests for data calls
  • Understands the client’s business issues and data challenges; performs gap analysis and recommend solutions

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, systems, business or related scientific /technical discipline plus 15 years of commensurate work experience, 10 years of additional relevant work experience may be substituted for educational requirements
  • Strong experience with projects which require well organized management, tracking and communications of complex product development dependencies
  • Strong communication skills (oral and written) to relay concise messaging and reporting to all levels of management
  • Great interpersonal skills and ability to work independently with minimal guidance/supervision
  • Strong analytical and investigation skills crafting solutions to challenging problems or issues
  • Strong experience in developing presentations and slides for communicating technical and non-technical subjects to both small and large audiences
  • Must be able to identify and mitigate risks to the project, and escalate program risks, as necessary.

Benefits:

  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Corporate Discounts
  • Learning & Development platform, to include certification preparation content
  • Training, Education and Certification Assistance
  • Referral Bonus Program
  • Internal Mobility Program
  • Pet Insurance
  • Flexible Work Environment