Sr Project Manager

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Job Title: Sr Project Manager
Location: Tallahassee, FL
Job Type: Contract
Referral Fee:
Employment Eligibility: Gravity cannot transfer nor sponsor a work visa for this position. Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S. for any employer directly 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage and proactively update project status tracking.
• Complete the necessary project status reporting
• Understand and comply with the reporting and documentation requirements.
• Update the schedule status as required, produce reports, track variances, and identify pending milestones and scheduled tasks slippage.
• Analyze the schedule, including ensuring that schedule logic is consistent and maintained, analyzing what-if scenarios, and reviewing the critical path.
• Work with the Project Team and vendors to collect project status, schedule updates, identify and resolve conflicts.
• Analyze, prepare, validate, and maintain cost estimates, detailed baseline budgets, and monthly cost variance reports.
• Update the project budget and project forecasts, and perform cost variance analysis. 
• Perform legislative budget requests duties.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Experience and Skills

• Six years of professional experience in Project Management
• Active PMP (PMI) Certification
• Experience in compiling legislative budget requests is highly desired.
• Knowledge of Program management and Construction scheduling processes is highly desired.  
• Experience with public speaking, training, or communicating detailed information to large groups is highly desired.
• Extensive knowledge of the principles, methods, practices, tools, and techniques outlined in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) (current version).
• Knowledge of various types of contracts, and development techniques for procurement documents such as: Requests for Quotes (RFQ), Requests for Purchase (RFP), Invitation to Bid (ITB), Invitation to Negotiate (ITN), and Single Source.
• Skill in the use of the methods and tools used for risk assessment and mitigation of risks.
• Ability to coordinate and manage projects and resources from a high and discreet level, including cost, work, and Vendor performance.
• Ability to categorize work, set priorities, and determine short and/or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them.
• Ability to accurately estimate time requirements for assigned tasks for a project.
• Ability to plan, organize, coordinate, and prioritize work assignments.
• Ability to put the ideologies, techniques, and tools into practice.
• Ability to discreetly reconcile project budgets.
• Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of the system development life cycle.
• Ability to produce legible and complete functional documentation in a way that thoroughly captures all business requirements, processes, and inputs/outputs of activities.
• Ability to analyze and accurately define processes and workflows to design efficient process solutions, including missing or duplicate functionality in existing processes;
• Ability to work effectively with individual staff and a work unit, to identify and document requirements for the maintenance, enhancement, or development of computer application systems, including technical overviews and context diagrams.
• Ability to evaluate data outputs from computer applications and identify system problems.
• Ability to interpret and communicate technical information related to business processes, computer programming, and data processing, both verbally and in writing.
• Must be able to perform QA reviews and provide valuable feedback in determining that standards are met and that documents are complete and comprehensive.
• Strong understanding of project budget reconciliation to the approved budget.
• Advanced skills with Microsoft products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Project.
• Ability to relate to customers’ needs, document their requirements, and perform duties in the absence of staff.
• Ability to receive and give constructive criticism and maintain effective work relationships with others.

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