Temporary Senior IT Project Manager
Overview:
The Senior IT Project Manager is responsible for the successful delivery of large-scale, complex projects often involving multiple internal and external stakeholders through all phases of the SDLC. The Senior IT Project Manager helps set and follow clear project management standards including project plans, change controls, risk management, and other project management documents on given strategic initiatives.The Senior IT Project Manager assists in developing standards, managing the enterprise IT project priority list with IT Directors, and assists in IT Steering Committee meetings if needed. This position reports to the Director of IT Strategic Initiatives
Responsibilities:
- Accountable for successful project delivery through active project management oversight.
- Leads cross functional teams delivering superior IT projects consisting of people, process, and technology that allows complete interaction with all impacted stakeholders, including internal business users and external providers.
- Develops project management plans in accordance with roadmaps which integrate the requirements and activities addressing the management of project scope, schedule, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, and procurement.
- Defines, documents, and tracks project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan with IT and Business Units.
- Consistent reporting on the status of the critical path, consumed slack and/or EV and ROI
- Rigorously manages scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed upon time, cost, and quality parameters
- Builds an environment of trust and open information. Sharing lessons learned, perceptions, and best practices openly with the teams.
- Communicates clearly with internal and vendor teams in multiple diverse locations, ensuring that strategic and tactical deliverables are understood.
- Regularly conducts postmortems on capability delivery and ensure that the team learns from mistakes as well as victories.
- Develops and maintains risk management plan addressing opportunities, best practices, risks, and issues or threats
- Documents, monitors and manages the project risks. Assesses the impact of new or
- Works with various teams/disciplines to ensure release readiness and quality deployments.
- Facilitates Project Steering Committee meetings and stakeholder’s meetings.
- Participate in special projects, assignments, and other tasks as needed.
Qualifications:
Education and Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant field and at least five (5) years of relevant project management experience required. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of eight (8) years of relevant experience to include a minimum of five (5) years project management experience will be considered.Particular emphasis on waterfall and iterative software development methodologies. Experience managing multiple complex projects with teams of 10 or more. Experience in health plan environment preferred.
Special Skills, Licenses and Certifications
Project Management Professional (PMP) or Educational Class Based Project Certification preferred. Strong project management skills, including the ability to create project plans, prioritize work, and meet deadlines. Required Proficiency in MS Office suite of applications MS Project, MS Office Suite and SharePoint.Oher applications such as Visio, Workfront and Jira are preferred, however not required. Valid California driver’s license and proof of current automobile insurance compliant with Partnership policy are required to operate a vehicle and travel for company business.
Performance Based Competencies
Strong planning, organizational, and leadership skills. Understanding of team dynamics and ability to foster a positive team environment. Excellent time management skills. Self-starter and self-motivated. Excellent written and oral communication skills.Ability to speak clearly and persuasively in all situations. Ability to effectively exercise good judgment. Attention to detail.
Work Environment And Physical Demands
Ability to use a computer keyboard. More than 50% of work time is spent in front of a computer monitor. Must be able to lift, carry, or move objects of varying size, weighing up to 10 lbs.
All HealthPlan employees are expected to:
- Provide the highest possible level of service to clients;
- Promote teamwork and cooperative effort among employees;
- Maintain safe practices; and
- Abide by the HealthPlan’s policies and procedures, as they may from time to time be updated.
HIRING RANGE:
$50.00/hour - $63.00/hour
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER NOTICE
The job duties, elements, responsibilities, skills, functions, experience, educational factors and the requirements and conditions listed in this job description are representative only and not exhaustive of the tasks that an employee may be required to perform.The employer reserves the right to revise this job description at any time and to require employees to perform other tasks as circumstances or conditions of its business, competitive considerations, or work environment change.