Job Listing Information
- 24-Apr-2024 to 08-May-2024 (UTC)
- Dover, DE, USA
- Full Time
- Long Term Contract Length
- 40 Weekly Hours
Position Description:
- The Senior Project Management Specialist (SPMS) directs, controls, administers, and manages an enhancement or development of medium to large and/or enterprise-wide project(s).
- The Senior Project Management Specialist is the individual ultimately responsible for projects.
- The Project Management Specialist’s primary responsibility is to drive the entire project/program from start to finish.
- The Project Management Specialist must ensure that the project/program is completed on schedule and that the final product meets the business, technical standards and policies.
Years of Relevant Experience: 5 to 7 years
Role Description: All roles specified in SPMS1 plus the following:
- Accountable for the approval and sign-off of the program plan with customer representatives, such as portfolio managers, and all affected program stakeholders.
- Accountable for management of scope for the program and gaining agreement and approval of scope changes with customer representatives and affected stakeholders.
- Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and customer representatives.
- Direct work planning and scheduling design work.
- Manage, and track the program progress against the program plan.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for all program-related issues and resolution of issues.
- Coordinate and present proposals to agencies as necessary.
- Identify and manage program risk and develops risk mitigation strategies, track to closure.
- Ensure team leads adjust and revise estimates when necessary.
- Anticipate issues and proactively address them. Resolve conflicts with sensitivity and tact.
- Coordinate the establishment of program standards and program specific procedures with team leads.
- Responsible for project compliance with standards and procedures.
- Responsible for the capture and reporting of required program management metrics.
- Responsible to tailor and baseline all program templates.
- Develop and facilitate achievement of program service commitments and performance metrics.
- Ensure that tasks provide value and support the strategic direction of the program and meet service commitments; conduct reviews with agencies.
- Accountable for the final program management evaluation review with stakeholders for approval upon program completion.
- Communicate effectively with customers and software/hardware suppliers supporting the State as appropriate.
- Identify and track issues.
- Balance workload with program members’ capacity.
- Communicate to team members how their work assignments relate to and help achieve program objectives.
- Plan program specific training and orientation needs.