Senior Project Manager, contract (6+ months)

Location: Colorado Springs, CO

About the Client:

Our client is a faith-based child advocacy ministry that focuses on global aid for children.  As a consultant for this company, you will be joining a world leader among child development ministries.

The selected candidate will perform the following activities:

• Work with multiple teams
• Provide support for technical project for HR apps
• Development of infrastructure release window processes
• Other infrastructure projects
• Defines project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Effectively communicates project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Plans and schedules project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools. Tracks project milestones and deliverables.
• Directs and manages project development from beginning to end. Develops full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.

The position details are as follows:

Role: Senior IT Project Manager
Terms

• Travel / Expense reimbursement: No
• Telecommuting options, if any: No
• Projected Start Date: Monday, July 23, 2012
• Projected Length of Contract: 6 months
• Possibility of extension: Yes
• It is expected that this resource will work an average 8 hours per day during the contract period. Any hours over 8 hours per day/40 hours per week will be paid at straight time (no time and a half, etc.)

Years of Experience: 7+ years Project Manager experience

Qualifications:

• Strong Business Analyst/Systems Analyst skills
• Strong interpersonal communication skills
• Experience creating or overseeing effort to create technical solutions for business requirements
• Ability to adhere to procedures
• Experience providing oral and written status to various levels of management
• Ability to create, maintain levels of effort, project plans, and team work efforts
• Experience in risk management and mitigation/resolution creation
• Ability to drive large, complex project in a multi-department portfolio
• Effectively utilizing recognized PM tools including: work breakdown structures, resource management, risk management, issues management, financial management, contract , and stakeholder management
• Strong technical skills with ability to manage projects involving a variety of technologies
• Organizational skills – resource planning – allocation/utilization
• Leadership experience, ability to set direction, drive team to meet objectives, leading by example and teamwork
• Excellent communication skills - – resource planning and understand the theory and practice of resource allocation including facilitation, consulting, negotiation, presentation, and coaching
• Strategic planner
• Experienced change agent

Required Skill Set:

• Windows 7, Microsoft Office 10 Suite, MS Project, Visio,
• PlanView would be nice
• Experience defining/identifying Technology and Regulatory

Certifications/Education:

• PMP (strongly preferred), BA in Computer Science, Technology, Business or Equivalent Experience

Hardware / Software to be Used:

• Windows 7, Microsoft Office 10 Suite, Ms Project, Visio,
• PlanView would be nice

Deliverables and Services:

• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools. Tracks project milestones and deliverables.
• Direct and manage project development from beginning to end. Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.

The following timeline is applicable to this request:

• Resumes must be submitting by Thursday, June 28, 2012
• There will be no phone interviews permitted (onsite, face-to-face interviews only)
• Candidates must be available for 30-minute onsite interviews to be scheduled between 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Monday, July 9, 2012
• A final decision will be made no later than Tuesday, July 10, 2012
• Start date of Monday, July 23, 2012 is dependent on having a contract signed by authorized representatives by Friday, July 20, 2012.