Project Manager (Expert) Formal Project Management

HBITS: HBITS-08-14911

Project Manager
Plans, organizes and integrates cross-functional information
technology projects that are significant in scope and impact

Expert
84+ months: Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams
and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the
top of his/her field.

30 month contract

Interview: Virtual Interview

Work model: 50% telecommuting, 50% Office per week

--- Project Description ---
Oversees large-scale, high-impact IT projects, ensuring effective cross-
functional integration.

--- Day-to-Day Tasks ---
1. Work closely with the project's business functional areas involving
DOT executive and business teams, Portfolio/ITS Leadership and
technical teams to develop and manage the project scope and other
project management plans (PMP), approach, resource requirements
and allocation, schedule, deliverables, and funding.
2. Provide guidance and direction to the Portfolio project teams on day-to-
day project tasks.
3. Develop formal project plans specifying goals, strategy, dependencies,
scheduling, identifying risks, contingency plans, and allocation of
available resources.
4. Follow the standards and procedures for project reporting and
documentation for all projects being managed within IT Portfolio.
5. Identify, schedule, and manage project deliverables, milestones, and
required tasks.
6. Assign tasks and responsibilities and drive accountability to project
team members.
7. Direct and coordinate complex business requirements deliveries,
business process reengineering and organizational change activities.
8. Direct and coordinate activities of project resources to ensure project
progresses on schedule and within budget.
9. Track project-related costs and expenditures.
10. Facilitate large project governance and executive status meetings,
project team status meetings, scrums and recurring agile meetings by
defining agendas and running meetings effectively.
11. Aggregate status updates from project team members, track
schedules, and manage risks and issues as required.
12. Prepare executive project status reports and keep the team,
management and all stakeholders informed of project status and
related issues, resolving and escalating as necessary.

--- Required Qualifications ---
• 84 months experience in managing and leading multiple large, complex IT
projects for US Government agencies, functioning as the project manager.
Large, complex IT projects are defined primarily as those with the following
characteristics: budget over $500,000, duration over 12 months, multiple
funding sources including Federal and grant funding, management of third
party vendors, management of external stakeholders, multi-level project team
organization, deployment to geographically diverse end users.
• 84 months experience developing and executing project plans including
management of Charter, Scope, Schedule, Cost, Quality, Communication,
Change, Risk, Issue, Resource management plans, and managing the plans
throughout the project management lifecycle from initiation through closeout
• 84 months of experience in developing and managing formal project
schedules in a project tracking tool, such as Microsoft Project, including
tracking progress and variances against baselines utilizing both Waterfall,
Agile and Hybrid methodologies; using standard PM techniques (e.g., scrum
sessions) to update project schedule; and presenting schedule/status
updates to both ITS and client agency's leaderships.
• 84 months experience developing, writing, and managing detailed Scope
Document, reviewing project deliverables and managing the deliverables
acceptance process and using the project scope and deliverable
management process to manage the project change request process.
• 84 months experience with project quality planning, quality assurance, end-to-
end system testing, quality control, user acceptance testing (UAT) defect and
metrics management, and quality governance
• 48 months experience managing COTS software implementation projects
and/or in-house application development (SDLC) projects.
• Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP) AND PMI Agile Certified
Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®

MVP Consulting Plus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities during the application process.