Job Details

Job Title -IT Project Manager

Location - Harrisburg PA ,17101

Duration – 6 months or Extended.

Rate - Depends on Experience

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain project control documents in accordance with enterprise project management methodologies, including project charters, cost plans, capacity management plans, risk management plans, communications plans, governance plans, schedules, change management plans, knowledge management plans, and quality assurance plans.
• Develop detailed project plans, including identification of phases, activities, tasks, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, schedules, and resource assignments.
• Lead project plan development activities and motivate project resources to complete assigned duties and tasks.
• Prepare formal reports on the status and health of IT projects, including periodic status reports, management dashboards, and project metrics.
• Monitor project quality, schedule, and budget, and facilitate actions to mitigate risk and address issues that arise.
• Facilitate the risk and issue management processes for IT projects by maintaining risk and issue logs, identifying risks and issues, communicating issues and risks according to project governance, and working with project team members to ensure effective risk and issue management.
• Facilitate deliverable and project artifact approval processes for IT projects by tracking all deliverables and project artifacts that require approvals, communicating the need for approvals to the appropriate groups and individuals, and tracking approval decisions.
• Manage the project change control process for issues that impact the quality, schedule, or budget of the project by documenting change requests, securing approval for changes, and documenting approved changes in accordance with project governance.
• Facilitate periodic and ad-hoc project meetings, including scheduling with appropriate team members, preparing agendas, recording action items and key decisions, and preparing, circulating, and seeking approval for meeting minutes.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 4-5 years of full-time experience as a project manager for enterprise IT system infrastructure and operations-related projects.
• 2+ years of senior or lead project management experience, including supervision of cross-functional project teams.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, with demonstrated ability to effectively communicate at all levels of an organization, including executive staff.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate others to complete tasks.
• Working knowledge of IT Change Management.
• Working knowledge of ITIL processes and procedures.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field of study or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related technology discipline.
• PMP or similar project management certification.
• Thorough understanding of IT hardware/software configuration as it applies to IT infrastructure and operations.
• Thorough understanding and demonstrated proficiency in IT Change Management processes.
• Experience working with at least one industry-standard change management tool (e.g., Remedy IT Service Management, ServiceNow, etc.).
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Office and Office 365 products (e.g., Outlook, Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.).