Job Description

Jr. Project Manager, Technology

W2 Contract - (USC/GC)

St. Petersburg, FL

(East Coast Candidates Only)

Our client is looking for a Jr. Project Manager to join their team.

Duties:

• Manages small to medium size projects and/or multiple projects with significant impact on business processes and technology used firm wide.
• Manages projects from proposal and requirements definition to project planning and implementation, using industry knowledge and/or business unit subject matter experts.

Responsibilities:

• Application development and project life cycle methodologies and standards.
• Project selection and approvals; budgeting and business case preparation and analysis; and project initiation and planning, including work breakdown structures and forecasting.
• Concepts of risk management, issue tracking, change management and requirements gathering.
• Information technology support and technical documentation.
• Strong understanding of budgets and financial planning for technology projects is highly preferred.

Skills:

• Conducts preliminary investigation for all project requests by reviewing requirements and specifications and testing and by reviewing support and training plans to ensure they are aligned with organizational priorities, business plans and objectives.
• Provides a proactive interface between project stakeholders and senior management team to ensure complete and accurate definitions of business requirements and delivery of business applications.
• Identifies, defines and documents complex business and technical requirements, processes and deliverables.
• Develops, prepares, presents and maintains project plans, including staffing requirements, cost estimates, detailed budgets and work breakdown structures and schedules.
• Performs project risk assessments, including identifying key risk factors, providing effective mitigation strategies and assigning contingency action plans to both schedules and budgets
• Manages projects and teams, including applying established methodologies, using change control templates and processes; managing time and recording activities using defined scheduling tools; monitoring budgets; coordinating resource acquisition and utilization; serving as a liaison with internal customers and external suppliers; and communicating regularly with project stakeholders.
• Delivers systems on appropriate platforms in compliance with established technology standards, including monitoring testing, executing quality assurance checks and ensuring information technology acceptance criteria is met prior to implementation.
• Strong Microsoft product knowledge with a focus on Excel skills including use of pivot tables and PowerPoint. Knowledge and prior use of SmartSheets is preferred.

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