Job Title: Sr Project Manager
Duration: 12 months (possible to hire)
Location: Baltimore, MD (Fully Remote)
Type: W2 only
Purpose
Job Description:
- Plans, organizes, and manages large-scale or complex projects for successful delivery of objectives, on time and within budget. Initiates, engages, and motivates cross-functional teams to deliver results. Identifies and mitigates risk and escalates as needed. Tracks progress and drives documentation to support project needs. Ensures end-to-end leadership for implementations, integration, business readiness, and communications.
Essential Functions
- 25% Plans and initiates project resources, prepares budgets, monitors progress, tracks schedules, and mitigates risks. Sequences complex initiatives from start to finish.
- 25% Provides end-to-end project management support in terms of reporting, project deliverable tracking, and documentation. Acts as a liaison across all areas to ensure effective and efficient goals, scope, progress, and completion of projects. Coordinates issues throughout the client and externally when necessary to promote accurately represented information.
- 15% Provides direction and motivation to project teams in a matrixed environment. Drives outcomes by fostering a collaborative culture. Manages relationships with key stakeholders, including management and vendors. Leads the execution of the project.
- 15% Evaluates implications of existing or proposed projects, programs, processes, and policies/regulations through critical and creative thinking and recommends improvements.
- 10% Performs mid-level advisory consulting work and provides strategic focus. Effectively conveys the big picture and alignment with corporate goals.
- 10% Synthesizes complex topics and project statuses into executive-level presentations and influences decision-making. Effectively communicates with all organizational levels. Liaises with IT and translates business needs into technology-related action plans.
Qualifications
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Education Level: Bachelor's Degree
- Education Details: Project Management, Business, or related field
- Experience: 5 years as a project manager or experience as a team lead managing large budgets
- In lieu of Education
- In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)
- Knowledge of Agile Scrum projects, methods, and principles.
- Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):
- Project planning and lifecycle development — Expert
- Ability to engage staff at project start-up and plan roll-off of staff at project end — Advanced
- Effective understanding of how functions integrate within the division and the strategic concept behind the corporate goals — Advanced
- Ability to synthesize large complex data and analysis into clear, concise, executive-level presentations that allow rapid understanding of business problems or opportunities and feasible solutions — Advanced
- Stakeholder management and facilitation, including conducting high-level status meetings with executives — Advanced
- Ability to establish working relationships and influence/persuade across all levels of leadership, including C-Suite — Advanced
- Ability to identify and shepherd strategic opportunities with significant organizational impact — Advanced
- Use of Microsoft Office applications — Advanced