Job Description

Under the program manager, the project manager is responsible for the outcome of the assigned projects. The project manager leads the team through the Commonwealth Standard for Project Management for successful completion of the project phases: Pre-Select, Initiation, Planning, Execution and Control and Closeout.

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).
• Adhere to VDOT and VITA project management practices and governance requirements; coordinate with VDOT and VITA Project Management Offices.
• Maintain project budget, plans, tasks, schedules, risks, and status and disseminates information to team members and customers as defined in the communications plan.
• Ensure documentation of requirements and uses cases, facilitate design workshops for assigned project.
• Ensure definition of test objectives, designed test plans and test cases for assigned project.
• 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.
  
  

Qualifications Required:

• The candidate must have a minimum of 8 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 or PM certification from VITA is required - no other certification qualifies.

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