Title: Senior Project Manager
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Atlanta, GA
Client: Atlanta Information Management
“The applicant is the center of our universe.”
Job Description:
Scope of Work:
This scope of work is a deliverable based engagement. The requirements of which include delivering the AIM directed portfolio of projects,
on time, on budget, within scope, and meeting the quality standards of the organization.
The currently known portfolio includes:
- Audit of Active Directory
- Field Network Support Enhancements
- AIM SIPOC (Suppliers, Inputs, Processes, Outputs, Customers)
- Updating the AIM Webpage and Delivering an SOP for ongoing maintenance
- Introducing Security around Data Loss Prevention
- Introducing Security Enclaves
- Additionally, the scope will include projects still being sourced, such as:
- Application & Development team needs
- Infrastructure & Operations team needs
- CIO directed initiatives around major events coming to Atlanta
- In accordance with the policies of AIM1, these projects are to be initiated, executed, monitored, controlled, and closed out by the team to be engaged. AIM recognizes and adheres to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) for initiating, managing, delivering, and closing projects. The engaged partner will be expected to perform accordingly.
Resource Responsibilities:
- Project/Execution Manager Responsibilities. The Project/Execution Manager plans and coordinates all aspects of IT specific projects from initiation to delivery.
- The role of this position is to plan, execute, and finalize projects according to agreed upon deadlines and within budget.
- The role also includes acquiring resources and coordinating efforts of team members and third-party contractors or consultants to deliver projects according to the established project plan.
- This role defines the project’s objectives and ensures delivery of quality.
General Duties:
- Manages projects that often involve network, server, or software implementation and upgrades, PC deployment and other similar projects.
- Coordinates work done by IT staff and internal customers/partners by defining project requirements, performing feasibility and needs/impact assessments.
- Develops detailed project plans and manages all implementation processes including resource allocation, progress tracking, monitoring change control process, testing, documentation, training, and on-time delivery within budget constraints.
Strategy & Planning:
- 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.
- Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
- Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
- Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
- Track project milestones and deliverables.
- Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.
- Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.
- Conduct project postmortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
- Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
Acquisition & Deployment:
- Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
- Draft and submit budget proposals and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary.
- Where required, negotiate with other department managers for the acquisition of required personnel from within the company.
- Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments, if necessary, during project cycle.
Operational Management:
- Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.
- Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
- Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.
- Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.
- Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
- Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
- Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.
- Coach, mentor, motivate, and supervise project team members and contractors and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
- Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of the project.
"If you are: bright, motivated, skilled, a difference-maker, able to get things done, work with minimum direction, enthusiastic, a thinker, able to juggle and multi-task, communicate effectively, and lead, then we would like to hear from you. We need exceptionally capable people for this role for our client, so get back to us and tell us why you think you are a fit."
About us:
Since 2000, Tri-Force Consulting Services (https://triforce-inc.com) has been an MBE/SDB certified IT Consulting firm in the Philadelphia region. Tri-Force specializes in IT staffing, software development (web and mobile apps), systems integration, data analytics, system automation, cybersecurity, and cloud technology solutions for government and commercial clients. Tri-Force works with clients to overcome obstacles such as increasing productivity, increasing efficiencies through automation, and lowering costs. Our clients benefit from our three distinguishing core values: integrity, diligence, and technological excellence. Tri-Force is a six-time winner among the fastest-growing companies in Philadelphia and a four-time winner on the Inc. 5000 list of the nation's fastest-growing companies.