Project Manager (Pmp) Jobs

Project Manager
Location: Austin Texas
Client: Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs
Exp: Minimum 15+ Years Must
Must Have PMP certification
Candidate Must Work With the State of Texas or Any Other State Client As Well
Candidate Must Be Austin Texas or Austin Metro Area Only - No Out of State and Relocation
Position is ONSITE
Minimum Requirements
Project management experience to include at least 5 years experience as lead project manager for multi-million-dollar projects.
Knowledge of project management theories and practices applicable to projects that are highly complex in scope; systems and procedures used to evaluate a third-party vendor's performance.
Project management experience with customized software development specializing in workflow management, file management, and reporting.
PMP certification.
Essential Functions

• Process Consistency: Directs, develops, evaluates, and establishes processes used by software vendors to ensure they are adhering to procedures consistently and confirms scope and schedule changes are documented, approved, and understood by project team members. Oversees and develops project budgets, schedules, works plans, resource requirements, cost estimates, and cost projections. Documents and monitors exceptions to standard IT policies, processes, and best practices.
• Deliverable Quality: Oversees, monitors, and manages the quality of highly complex, customized software build-out and works to identify continuous improvement measures/root causes and corrective actions. Verifies project deliverables are acceptable, fulfill terms of the team agreements, and are within time and budget. May oversee the deliverables of contract work.
• Customer Satisfaction: Communicates routinely to project team members and other stakeholders; actively soliciting and addressing customer and project team feedback.
• Leadership: Responsible for problem management, issue resolution, and risk identification and mitigation. Must take ownership of the project.
• Vision: Articulates a clear view (current and future) of the software to the TDHCA project team and external customers. Evaluate the project on defining and meeting strategic goals and objectives. Identify Full Time Equivalent (FTE) employees necessary to maintain the software, i.e. to provide software fixes and changes after going live. These changes may be required legislative changes, or annual changes to the TDHCA program rules and application process.

Worker Skills And Qualifications

• Participate in project meetings, capture status updates and action items.
• Adapt to periodic changes to scope, schedule, and resources.
• Project manage the 24-month software development project.
• Communicate fluently in English, both orally and in writing
• Identify and communicate issues and risks to the appropriate parties, and find timely resolution of issues and mitigation of risks.
• Monitor the overall progress of the project to ensure that goals are achieved within the defined scope, time, and budget.
• Create and implement communication plans. Prepare reports for leadership regarding the status of the project.
• Ensure the timely posting of all required project management artifacts and approvals in compliance with our methodology standards.
• Review and edit documentation to ensure the validity and accuracy of information.
• Create or support the development and maintenance of complete project management plans and project schedules that include all work breakdown structure (WBS) elements of the project business such as milestones and critical path activities.
• Measure, track, and evaluate progress against the project plan, deliverables, milestones and required tasks
• Proactively engage with all members of the project team to create and deliver complete presentations on project goals and plans, including status reports.
• Obtain peer and management approvals of project deliverables.
• Apply project management and product management practices.
• Support the project by facilitating project logistics.
• Produce and deliver reports that include project progress, schedule, budget, risks, and issues.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office tools.
• Manage project change requests through established processes.
• Maintain budget records, reconcile accounts and prepare statements of expenditures and invoices for the project.
• Route documentation for review with the document owner by established scheduled deadlines and obtain all required approvals for publishing.
• Work with appropriate personnel to define scope, timelines, and budget.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Ability to manage project activities; to establish project goals and objectives; to analyze complex information and develop plans to address identified issues; to identify project risks and gaps; manage multiple work streams; to communicate effectively; and to direct, assign, and evaluate the work of project staff.
• Skill in project management monitoring, addressing changes in scope and budget
• Knowledge of project management theories and practices applicable to projects that are highly complex in scope; systems and procedures used to evaluate a third-party vendor's performance