Title:  Project Manager, Senior (NJUS)

Purpose of Position

Management and leadership of mid-sized to highly complex enterprise-scale projects. Manages by providing direction, coordination, planning and delivering enterprise-scale projects and support.  Applies best practices of project planning, scenario and requirement definition, functional design, resourcing, issue/risk management, cross-departmental coordination and project and organizational change management. Participates in initial RFP and selection process. Will manage multiple projects concurrently.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Role will lead and manage multiple project teams.  You will develop and execute resource plans, staff the project team accordingly, track the progress of tasks, manage the budget, scope and schedule as well as change requests.  Responsible for estimating, measuring, forecast, status reporting, managing risks, support transition,and  project closure . Will participate in AFE and RFP development and the RFP selection process. 
• Interfaces with Project Stakeholders on developing the project plan and identification of milestones in their areas defining training, testing, change control, organizational change to include communications, acceptance testing, deployment and hand off to run teams.  Leads meetings with business and/or technical partners to identify project requirements, scope, definition, design, development, resource plans, projected timeline and work plans to drive the implementation of projects from plan and build phases through to operational readiness and transition to the run teams.  Responsible for project estimates, forecast and status reporting. 
• Track, measure, and communicate progress of timeline, critical milestones and overall deliverables of the project to management and stakeholders; managing risks and making mitigating decisions or reporting appropriately as issues arise.  Adapt project plans, schedules and resource assignments as required throughout the project in response to risks or revised requirements. Serve as the primary interface to team members; representing the program team. Conducts project meetings and is responsible for coordinating efforts/resources, tracking project performance, identification of dependencies, risks or issues and steps to mitigate or resolve. Manages the integration of vendor tasks and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables. 
• Develops and maintains effective relationships with internal teams to include business leads and application owners fostering an environment of trust.  Provide “go to" leadership, transparency and visibility; driving for clarity to keep teams moving forward.  Maintain a clear understanding of projects or initiatives and primary drivers to make effective recommendations on solutions. Remove roadblocks for the team. Balance scope and schedule to meet high profile non movable deadlines.  Assists in creation and presentation of informational overviews in support of project teams, gate reviews, technical review boards, information security review or other required sessions to provide a full service solution. 
• Provides technical and analytical guidance to the project team. Works with project leaders and architects to resolve technical solutions that meet the requirements.
• Recommends and takes action to direct the analysis and solution of problems; escalating to the vendor or management due to a lack of resolution when required.
• Ensures projects are completed on schedule and within budget.  Monitors adherence to quality standards on project deliverables providing approval or non approval based on the defined acceptance criteria. Ensures that deliverables are firmly aligned with the larger, long-term strategic vision of the organization.  Ensure project / team success by taking ownership of deliverables and assist / perform analysis, testing, support, training, or other tasks as necessary.  
   
• Note: It is not possible to list all required job duties on this form. There may be other important duties assigned, depending on the position. For a full list of essential job functions, please refer to the essential functions worksheet for that position.

Education

Certifications and Licenses

Years of Experience

Core Competencies

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Other (KSAOs)

• Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects or initiatives.
• Strong program or project experience with the ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Relevant experience; must be able to understand Infrastructure Technologies and able to join brainstorming sessions.
• Able to identify issues and problems, generate solutions and choose alternatives using basic root cause analysis.
• Excellent facilitation and organizational skills; able to interact and collaborate with technical resources and influence people on cross-functional teams.
• Must be comfortable working on concurrent projects or activities with shared resources.
• Demonstrated leadership or management experience.
• Passion for effective processes and methodologies that will improve productivity for the organization.
• Ability to own and drive issues to resolution; good time management skills and a clear sense of urgency with strong follow-up skills.
• Excellent attention to details, strong documentation skills; written, reporting/analyst and diagrams/workflows.
• Able to adapt to fast paced/dynamic environment while managing potential changes in priorities. 
• Ability to work with varying levels of the organization, both internal and external.
• Strong time management skills and a clear sense of urgency. 
• Strong interpersonal skills, including both oral and written skills with a strong sense of customer service
• PMP license preferred