IT Project Manager

Job Brief:

The IT Project Manager is charged with overseeing the process of planning, executing and delegating responsibilities around an organization’s information technology (IT) pursuits and goals. They should support business directives associated with specific initiatives and assign resources based on those goals.

Responsibilities:

1. Maintaining expert level knowledge and skills relative to System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Project Management Office (PMO) templates
2. Creating and maintaining the Project Plan
3. Monitoring the ongoing project activities against the PPP and any project performance baselines
4. Monitoring and controlling project scope, cost, and schedule
5. Tracking all project performance against any performance metrics
6. Working in partnership with the project team, infrastructure team, and project vendors to manage the release of new software
7. Viewing stakeholders/business owners’ functional duties holistically to understand impact of dependent/inter-related business functions
8. Chairing project and status meetings
9. 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
10. Managing project related issues by determining issue impact as high, medium, or low and creating strategies for issue resolution
11. Managing project related issues by assessing where the issue should be assigned
12. Managing project related issues by consistently reviewing all updates to issues and ensuring that there is complete and thorough documentation and appropriate assignment
13. Managing project related issues by controlling changes and recommending corrective or preventive actions
14. Maintaining and updating risk register, including determining the probability and impact of all risks and developing risk contingency, mitigation, or avoidance options
15. Ensuring each software release patch contains: vendor test results, JIS required configurations, and release notes
16. Creating and reviewing integrated change control requests
17. Creating and maintaining project artifacts as needed
18. Preparing regular and ad hoc reports

Skills Required:

1. Work 40 hours per week Monday-Friday during core business hours (8:30am-5:30)
2. Work a flexible schedule including evenings, nights, weekends and holidays during go-live work
3. Provide on-call operational support as required outside normal operating hours during go-live work
4. Excellent oral communication
5. Detail oriented
6. Skilled in business process analysis
7. Skilled in data review and data migration
8. Knowledge of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
9. Knowledge and ability to utilize standards and guidelines relative to JIS Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
10. Highly organized with the ability to keep track of multiple projects, requirements, action items, and following through to task closure
11. Ability to work in a matrixed organization to align resources toward project deliverables
12. Ability to work on multiple projects and objectives
13. Ability to translate technical concepts into business terms
14. 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