ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. This Project Manager position will oversee and guide the successful execution of strategic initiatives, managing all project phases from initiation to completion. Key responsibilities include coordinating resources, managing timelines, tracking milestones, and ensuring project objectives are met within scope, budget, and schedule. This role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams, addressing risks and issues, and maintaining clear communication with stakeholders. This Project Manager will also facilitate smooth project transitions, ensure compliance, and deliver regular status reports. Strong leadership, organization, and problem-solving skills are essential. This full-time position is located in Vancouver, WA.
Pay Rate: $51.67 - $73.82
Benefits:
Paid holidays: 11
PTO: Starting at 10 days
Sick Leave: Up to 56 hours per year (prorated based on start date)
EAP: Employee Assistance Program
Benefit Options Available: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, DCA, LPFSA, HSA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer contributions - employer match up to 4%)
Other benefits include the following: Calm App, Access Perks
Responsibilities:
Provide project management expertise and support and facilitate manager-assigned Control Center (CC) strategic initiative project or projects, from beginning to end, providing expert guidance on the PMI-based project management methodology, best practices, and internal skill development as requested by and with guidance from the manager, team lead or other personnel with the authority to do so, work will include:
Identify and request necessary subject matter experts needed during the project.
Forecast and recommend / request appropriate project resources to fulfill project needs; recommended resource requests must be submitted to, coordinated with and provided by appropriate Performance Managers.
Collaborate with business units and Performance Managers to resolve resource allocation issues.
Schedule and facilitate project team meetings.
Recommend an overall roadmap of efforts required to achieve program initiatives and project objectives.
Provide recommendations regarding project expectations, approach, roadmaps, work plans, deliverables, and goals.
Draft project plans, resource strategies, and funding estimates required to advance each assigned project / defined effort.
Alert manager of and obtain appropriate authorization for any potential changes to project cost, schedule, or performance.
Organize, coordinate, and facilitate the work of project team(s) and serve as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects, includes recommending project stages and assessing business implications for each stage.
Monitor progress of assigned projects to track timelines, milestones, deadlines, standards, and targets, alerting appropriate manager / personnel of any obstacles / potential delays to project timelines, targets, or success; provide corrective action recommendations.
Coordinate activities for manager-assigned projects that enable goals or objectives to be accomplished within the prescribed time frame and funding parameters, escalating concerns to appropriate manager / personnel.
Collaborate with manager and internal stakeholders to facilitate the tasks and activities of project team(s) and to properly understand related business needs, dependencies on other initiatives, and how best to effectively deploy end products.
Address and navigate politically sensitive issues in a collaborative and professional manner with manager assistance and guidance.
Provide background information, technical input, options, and recommendations for project decisions as requested by manager / personnel; work with appropriate parties to facilitate resolution of conflicting team positions.
Issue project status reports on a regular or as requested basis.
Maintain consistent communication with project sponsors, performance managers, and clients on the progress of the project vis-a-vis the work plan.
Collaborate and work with project sponsors and performance managers to remove obstacles impacting timely project completion.
Draft a final project report, including project "lessons-learned", for appropriate management review and acceptance.
Take a pro-active stance on project risk management:
Anticipate and identify potential areas of risk and obtain guidance from appropriate manager or Contracting Officer (CO).
Track, monitor and facilitate resolution of issues and risks identified within the projects, as well as compliance related dependencies.
Maintain issue, risk, and/or action logs.
Develop, draft, and recommend contingency plans to minimize / eliminate risks on an ongoing basis for review and acceptance by appropriate manager / personnel.
Communicate regularly with executive sponsors, key stakeholders, strategic partners, and managers independently and in team meetings.
Support and facilitate the following functions:
Written and verbal sponsor communication.
Project team communications and coordination.
Inter-project team communications and coordination.
Issues and risk management.
Coordination with IT resources.
Coordination with the program enterprise architect.
Team meeting and sponsor meeting management.
Support and facilitate the following deliverables:
Scope Definition and Management.
Implement Organizational Design and Change Management with respect to a culture resistant to change.
Process and System Design requirements.
Communication and project management best practice gap analysis.
When necessary, manage the successful transition of a project or program of projects to another project manager including any training, documentation, and meeting coordination required to bring the new PM fully up to speed on all critical aspects of the work and introduce them to executive sponsors and key stakeholders.
Coordinate and assist management with transitions of identified project resources as needed. This may include gathering information from departing/transitioning resources to identify subject matter expertise, documenting workloads, identifying training requirements to facilitate smooth transitions.
Mark documents and maintain filing system(s), files, emails, and records in accordance with compliance requirements. Share and disperse documents only to appropriate personnel (those with a Lawful Government Purpose (LGP) to know). Mark and maintain all official records in accordance with the Information Security (INFOSEC) and Information Governance & Lifecycle Management (IGLM) standards and procedures. Validate official records are accurately maintained for auditing purposes.
Requirements:
A bachelor's degree in business administration, computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related technical discipline is preferred.
10 years of experience is required with an applicable bachelor's degree.
14 years of direct work experience is required without a degree or a non-applicable bachelor's degree.
Experience must include project management of full lifecycle IT Software, IT Hardware, Data Integration, Telecom and/or Network Infrastructure related projects, developing technical specifications and project plans for medium-to large-sized projects.
Note: Level 3 is typically responsible for medium - to large -sized projects (25M and higher lifecycle cost). "Typically," as it refers to project size is determined by an average of the worker's assigned projects and includes the complexity, visibility, and sensitivity of the projects within the past year and is not based on a single project-funding amount.
Service Desk or Operations and Maintenance (O&M) experience will not meet project experience requirements.
Advanced skills with MS Project to include fundamental operation, function, and workflow of MS Project regarding timelines, dependencies, project expectations, milestones, and resources.
Demonstrated ability to manage IT Software, IT Hardware, Data Integration, Telecom and/or Network Infrastructure projects, and/or Applications Integrations projects in accordance with industry project management principles.
Expert at supporting the full lifecycle of projects through the IT Systems Development Lifecycle.
Expert at eliciting information from stakeholders, documenting and communicating, including via Project Plans, Functional & Technical Specifications, Schedules, Resource Plans, Budgets, and Presentations.
Demonstrated experience with expert-level communication and customer service skills to advance assigned project(s) forward in a large agency environment with multiple stakeholders.
Experience delivering projects with Cyber security and/or compliance requirements (ex: NERC-CIP, FISMA and NIST).
IT project and program management experience within an Information Technology or Operational Technology environment
Experience with Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
Valid U.S. Driver's License is required.
Work sponsorship is not available at this time. Third-party candidates will not be considered for this position.
Because we are a federal government contractor, we have special restrictions placed on us for hiring foreign nationals into certain key positions within the company. This particular position requires U.S. citizenship.
ACS Professional Staffing will provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to the applicant's race, color, religion, sex, gender, genetic information, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected by federal or state law. The company will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an applicant to participate in the hiring process if so requested.
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