Job Description

Title: Project Manager 3

Duration: 7 Months

Location: Mechanicsville, VA 23116

Work Type: Hybrid (Onsite 3 days per week required)

Interview Type: In-person only

PMP Certification Required

Job Overview

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager (PMP certified) to manage and deliver complex IT projects involving multiple teams and workstreams under an aggressive delivery schedule. This role focuses on migrating systems to Azure and requires strong technical project management and stakeholder coordination skills.

Under the direction of a program manager, the Project Manager will lead assigned projects through all phases—Pre-Select, Initiation, Planning, Execution & Control, and Closeout—following the Commonwealth Standard for Project Management.

The selected candidate will:

• Serve as a hands-on technical project manager with development staff and business groups.
• Coordinate and communicate with ITD management and staff to coordinate work tasks and resourcing.
• Communicate timelines and expectations to technical and business staff.
• Collaborate with vendors, consultants, and contractors in the execution of projects including contract management and working with the procurement office(s).
• Collaborate with technology leads and solution architects to incorporate agency best practices into project plans.
• Maintain project budget, plans, tasks, schedules, risks, and status and disseminate information to team members and customers as defined in the communications plan.
• Monitor progress by third-party vendors and define and measure their progress with metrics.
• Ensure documentation of requirements and use cases, facilitate design workshops for assigned projects.
• Ensure definition of test objectives, designed test plans and test cases for assigned projects.
• Provide the management of project milestones and deliverables for on-time and on-budget delivery.
• Define, measure, and clearly communicate progress with metrics.
• Support system and application training efforts.

Required:

• The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years experience managing large projects and a bachelor's degree.
• Experience in IT Infrastructure delivery (networking, physical plant, vendor management, site provisioning).
• Experience managing large, multi-stream projects.
• PMP or Qualified under Commonwealth of Virginia Qualification Standards for IT Project Managers for Category 4 Projects. See:

Preferred:

• Experience in both Agile and Waterfall project management.
• Agile Scrum Master certification
• Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server)

Special Instructions to Applicants:

• This position requires a fingerprint-based background check.
• PMP certification from PMI Required

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