Title: IT Project Manager

Location: Westwood, MA (Hybrid)

The IT Project Manager is responsible for using best practice PMO methodology to create a project plan to fit the stakeholders’/sponsors’ needs and deliver on desired outcomes.

Major Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Developing integrated baseline project plans applying estimating models, identifying resources and skills required, documenting estimating assumptions, refining plans, and managing performance against them
• Recommending best solutions based on understanding of business issues
• Providing task-based schedules and cost forecasts, and assisting in assessing risk-based provisions
• Capturing and tracking program metrics and performing analysis
• Managing project scope by assessing requirements changes, determining and conveying impacts on budget, time, and risk
• Managing client expectations, anticipating operational and tactical risks and tracking them
• Clarifying, identifying, and tracking requirements and issues, removing barriers, resolving minor project issues, and escalating to immediate managers, where required
• Managing project closure initiatives, such as client satisfaction surveys and closure analysis
• Documenting and archiving project activities, deliverables, tools, and findings for future projects

Job Qualifications

• 1 – 2 years’ experience managing IT projects
• Ability to develop project plans, and manage individual deadlines and goals
• Knowledge of project metrics, including gathering, reporting, trend analysis, creation, and metrics
• Ability to identify issues and problems, generate solutions, and choose appropriate alternatives using basic root cause analysis
• Advanced proficiency with all MS Office applications, MS Project, and/or Visio
• Highly organized with good time management skills
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills; strong command of the English language, both written and oral
• Strong customer service orientation
• Analytical thinking ability with creative problem solving skills and strong attention to detail
• Bachelor's Degree in IT-related discipline preferred
• PMP Certification highly preferred

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