Location: Minneapolis, MN, United States

Job Code: PCMAN2140

Experience Required: 2+ Years

Job Description:
Our Direct Client is seeking an experienced, full-time, on-site, dedicated Candidate, with skills and expertise as described in the requirements below.

Responsibilities:

1. Provide leadership for program/project
2. Create a strong and successful working vendor partnership
3. Create strong and successful partnership with application teams
4. Provide strategic vision and thinking with focus on outcomes
5. Create clear and attainable project/program objectives
6. Create clear and attainable project/program requirements
7. Manage program/project constraints of cost, time and scope
8. Form close links with team members and stakeholders
9. Provide knowledge transfer

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Ten (10) years of Information Technology experience
2. Five (5) years’ Project Manager experience
3. A Master’s degree substitutes for three years of experience, or a Bachelor’s degree substitutes for two years, or an Associate’s degree substitutes for one year
4. One (1) engagement in a Project Manager role working on a Cloud and IT transition, transformation, and migration, preferably with mass migrations technology

Desired Skills:

1. Demonstrable leadership ability
2. Proven delivery managing increasingly complex projects
3. Experience working in a government setting
4. Ability to direct & manage program/project development from beginning to end
5. Ability to define program/project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with project sponsors and stakeholders
6. Ability to estimate program/project resource requirements and participants needed to achieve goals including changes during where necessary
7. Ability to identify and manage program/project dependencies and critical path
8. Ability to establish program/project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools and tracking such milestones and deliverables
9. Ability to manage changes in program/project scope, identify potential crises or issues, and devise contingency plans as appropriate
10. Ability to communicate program/project plans, expectations, updates, progress, issues, and successes in a timely & clear fashion when necessary