Client : NFCU ( Navy Federal Credit Union)
Job Location: Remote/Work from home
Rate: $52/hr. - $60/hr. on W2 (all inclusive)
Duration: 6 months
Client will only accept the following: US Citizens, Green Card Holders, TN Visa, EAD/GC. Candidates MUST pass a credit check with this client.
The IT Project Manager will:
1. Project Leadership
- Manages the full life-cycle of the project following SDLC
- Applies project management expertise and best practices/tools to define and execute:
- Scope Management
- Schedule Management
- Cost Management
- Resource Management
- Issue/Risk Management
- Procurement Management
- Communications Management
- Change Management
- Quality Management
- Vendor Management
- Contract Management
- Ensures on-time and on-budget delivery of projects through organizing, developing and routinely forecasting project plans and project budget to ensure
- Change Leadership – Manages the transition to ensure adoption of change, builds strong partnerships and communication plans with all project stakeholders and project team members
- Adheres to the PM processes and actively prepares for / participates in all structured project reviews
2. Leading Projects
- Leads and engages single or cross-functional project teams, which are accountable for design, development and implementation of defined solutions
- Ensures alignment of all project roles and responsibilities and they are articulated to each team member, modified as required, and accomplished throughout the project
- Provides clear feedback – both routine feedback (ad hoc discussions based on project activities) and formal feedback (reviews at key phases of the project or related to PARs / IDPs)
- Monitors and measures staff/resource assignment results against project / task goals and accountabilities
- Develop and maintain effective rapport with vendors
- Evaluates managements of projects, emerging methods, industry best practices and lessons learned to develop most current and innovative Project Management practices and standards
- Educates team members on emerging industry methods, practices and standards
- Provide consistent, concise, relevant, reliable and timely information to all appropriate internal and external audiences/stakeholders through a variety of media
- Ensures accuracy of information to enable effective business decisions
- 7 -10 Years IT Project Management experience
- Agile and PMO experience
- Looking for extensive Agile experience as a Scrum Master
- Experience standing up a new Scrum Team
- Experience building roadmaps, facilitating sprint planning, and calculating velocity
- Experience working in JIRA, Confluence, or other Agile Tools
Preferred Qualifications:
- Active PMP certification