Project Manager (Part-time, Contractor)

About The Role

A search is underway for a part-time Project Manager to join the team. This role is central to the organization and timeline of projects, coordinating people and processes. The Project Manager will develop detailed project plans, ensuring resource availability and allocation, and will deliver every project assigned on time, within budget, and within scope. To be a successful candidate, proven experience in project management and the ability to lead project teams of various sizes are essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintaining and monitoring project plans, schedules, hours, budgets, and expenses.
• Vendor communication and assignments.
• Setting up budgeting alerts and maintaining set budgets for projects.
• Coordinating with team members to ensure all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules.
• Meeting with project team members to identify and resolve issues.
• Submitting project deliverables and ensuring they adhere to quality standards.
• Establishing effective project communication plans and ensuring their execution.
• Facilitating scope change and risk identification to ensure all parties are informed of impacts on schedule and budget.
• Coordinating the development of user manuals, training materials, and other documents, as needed, to enable successful implementation and turnover of the process or system to clients.
• Conducting post-project evaluations and identifying successful and unsuccessful project elements.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry experience managing IT deployment projects and managing teams.
• 2+ years of experience managing cloud migration projects.
• Previous experience working in a project management or project lead role within the professional services industry.
• Experience delivering on multiple projects concurrently.
• Strong time management skills.
• Ability to perform job duties with a sense of urgency.
• Experience in process modeling, documenting business requirements, and documenting workflows.
• Experience with project management software, preferably JIRA.
• Ability to deal well with ambiguous or undefined problems.
• Ability to think abstractly and guide others.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP certification.

Additional Information

Contractors are not eligible for benefits.

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