Agile Project Manager on a 12 months renewable contract role in Durham, NC. Position: Agile Project Manager on a 12 months renewable contract role in Durham, NC.
This Agile Project Manager must be very well organized and able to manage multiple technical, business, test and training teams.
The Project Manager is responsible for managing project timelines, resources, quality and risk; including, milestone planning and reporting, project budget tracking, budget analysis, project staffing, status reporting, change requests, and other basic project administration activities.
Project duties include requirements gathering, guiding internal customers through the project life cycle, and supporting go-live and post-implementation support.
The position requires a strong blend of Project Management business analysis and technical experience and the ability to work well in a team environment, as well as skills to facilitate communication, team focus, influence, service oriented, problem solving, analytic thinking, planning, personal development and decisiveness. Using these attributes, the candidate will communicate individual roles and project/program expectations for both internal and external teams, develop detailed project plans and schedules, provide work direction and leadership to assigned projects or programs including sub projects and at times, individual project members; including scheduling, assignment of work and review of project efforts.
This position also monitors and audits project or program milestones and critical dates to identify potential jeopardy of project schedule and identifies ways to resolve schedule issues, provides required project status reporting, assesses variances from the project plan, gathers metrics, and develops and implements changes as necessary to ensure that the project remains within specified scope and is within time, cost, and quality objectives.
Required / Desired Skills:
7 years of Experience organizing meetings, maintaining project plans, budgets and status reports; providing feedback on standards and approaches to the work Required
7 years of Experience with Agile and other structured methodologies (i.e., Scrum, Waterfall, Iterative, RUP, or PMI) Required
7 years of Experience with Project Management tools, including MS Project, JIRA, Crucible, Fish-eye, and SharePoint Required
7 years of Demonstrated ability to enlist support across functional teams within a matrix organization to obtain results Required
7 years of working knowledge of Project Management Standards common in project management methodology Required
7 years of Expertise in using MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint Required
7 years of Demonstrated experience using analytical and creative problem-solving skills Required
Track record of driving the delivery of projects on time Highly desired
Ability to work on multiple priorities and/or projects simultaneously without impact to quality of work Highly desired
5 years of Experience with software end-user change management strategy and execution Highly desired
Strong risks and business impact analysis and reporting skills Highly desired
Demonstrated strength in problem definition and resolution Highly desired
4 years of Experience with NC FAST development projects Highly desired
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