Senior Project Manager – IT

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## Essential Job Functions

The Senior IT Project Managers responsibility, as the leader of the
Project Management Office (PMO), includes oversight and reporting for
the following areas:

– Project Integration Management The processes required to ensure
that the various elements of the project are properly coordinated
consisting of project charter development, preliminary scope
statement development, project management plan development, project
management plan execution, and integrated change control
– Project Scope Management The processes required to ensure that
the project includes all the work required, and only the work
required, to complete the project successfully consisting of scope
planning, scope definition, creating the work breakdown structure
(WBS), scope verification, and scope control
– Project Time Management The processes required to ensure timely
completion of the project consisting of activity definition,
activity sequencing, activity resource estimating, activity duration
estimating, schedule development, and schedule control
– Project Cost Management The processes required to ensure that
the project is completed within the approved budget consisting of
cost estimating, cost budgeting, and cost control
– Project Quality Management The processes required to ensure that
the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken
consisting of quality planning, quality assurance, and quality
control
– Project Human Resource Management The processes required to make
the most effective use of the people involved with the project
consisting of human resource planning and acquiring/ developing/
managing the project team
– Project Communications Management The processes required to
ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination,
storage, and ultimate disposition of project information consisting
of communications planning, information distribution, performance
reporting, and managing stakeholders
– Project Risk Management The processes concerned with
identifying, analyzing, and responding to project risk consisting of
risk management planning, risk identification, quantitative risk
analysis, qualitative risk analysis, risk response planning, and
risk monitoring and control
– Organizational change management (OCM) The processes of adhering
to change management principles to help mitigate the challenges that
the organization will face when implementing the system

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– Executive Buy-in:Make sure there is buy-in from leadership.
Without buy-in from everyone in leadership the project will not be
successful.
– Employee engagement:Organizational readiness is critical with IT
projects to ensure all issues and opportunities are mitigated across
the enterprise. Engaging and involving employees leads to
quantifiable benefits realization in the long run
– Communications:Communication within an IT project is vital but
incredibly difficult. Project and communications teams must have a
plan for how they will provide updates and coach managers on how to
best deliver the messages to their teams. Again, language, culture,
and level of experience among end-users have a significant influence
on messaging
– Training:Change management plans must be devised to address
workforce transition to the new IT system and who will be
super-users and trainers. Failing to fully develop a training
strategy can have serious implications on the success of an IT
implementation.

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– Work closely with solution architects technical teams (both
internally and vendor), functional analysts to oversee project scope
and track metrics on schedule, budget, and with high-quality
deliverables
– Communicate effectively with clients and vendors regarding the IT
project, technology, and functionality.
– Monitor required controls and propose improvements as required,
including quality plans, issues and action logs, risk management
plans, and change control plans, for all aspects of the project
– Responsible to monitor design and implementation concerning
Statement of Work, purchase orders, price quotes, and other
contractual materials as part of scheduling and deploying resources
– Ensure business and assignment risks are identified, monitored, and
managed to achieve minimal disruption to the project delivery and
success
– Assist in mentoring IT Project Managers

## Qualifications

Skills and Experience (Required)

High School graduate or GED equivalent is required for this position

Five years or more of experience in project management for a large
complex or