Project Manager Expert

JSM Consulting Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

JSM Consulting Inc. seeks an accomplished IT Project Manager to lead large, multi-faceted IT initiatives. You will oversee scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk, coordinating with vendors and stakeholders to drive successful delivery across the full project lifecycle.

The role requires 84 months of PM experience, expertise in PMBOK, and proficiency with Microsoft Project or similar tools, ensuring timely status updates to ITS and client leadership.

Qualifications

• 84 months of experience leading large, complex IT projects.
• Experience developing and executing project management plans (charter, scope, schedule, cost, quality, communication, change, risk, issue, resources).
• Projects managed through full lifecycle from initiation to close.
• Experience with PMBOK-based project management and schedules using a tool like Microsoft Project.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, complex IT projects with diverse funding and vendors.
• Develop, execute and manage formal project management plans.
• Present schedule/status updates to ITS and client leadership.
• Ensure scope, delivery, quality, and risk governance throughout the lifecycle.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Communication

Scheduling

Education

PMI-PMP

PMI-ACP

Bachelor's degree in IT/PM

Tools

Microsoft Project

PMBOK framework

Job description

84 months experience managing and leading large, complex IT projects as the Project Manager.

Large, complex IT projects are defined as projects that include one or more of the following characteristics:

• Budget greater than $1,000,000
• Project duration greater than 12 months
• Multiple funding sources including Federal or grant funding
• Management of third-party vendors
• Management of external stakeholders
• Oversight of multi-level project team organizations
• Deployment to geographically diverse end users

Required

Candidate must provide at least one example of a large, complex IT project completed or currently in progress that was led by the candidate and managed in the ITSM system. 84 months experience developing and executing project management plans including management of:

• Charter
• Scope
• Schedule
• Cost
• Quality
• Communication
• Change
• Risk
• Issue
• Resource management plans

Experience must include management of these plans throughout the full project lifecycle from project initiation through project closeout.

Required

Candidate must provide at least one example of an IT project led by the candidate and managed using the PMBOK framework. 84 months experience developing and managing formal project schedules using a project tracking tool such as Microsoft Project.

Experience Must Include

• Development of formal project schedules
• Tracking progress and variance against schedule baselines
• Use of Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid project methodologies
• Use of standard project management techniques such as scrum sessions to update schedules
• Presentation of schedule and status updates to ITS and client agency leadership 84 months experience developing, writing, and managing detailed Scope Documents.

Experience Must Include

• Reviewing project deliverables
• Managing the deliverables acceptance process
• Managing scope governance
• Using scope and deliverable management processes to manage project change requests 84 months experience with project quality management, including:
• Project quality planning
• Quality assurance processes
• End-to-end system testing
• Quality control
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT) coordination
• Defect management and metrics tracking
• Overall quality governance 48 months experience managing software implementation projects, including:
• Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software implementations

and/or

• In-house application development projects following Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies. 24 months experience managing IT projects using standard tools, including:
• ITSM
• MeasureIT cost planning
• PMBOK methodology
• Project management templates
• Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP)

AND

• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)