Human Services /IT Consultant/Senior Project Management

at  AHU Technologies Inc

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

Client is seeking a hands-on Senior Project Management Officer to manage Project Schedule, support organizational change management including training development and delivery.

COMPLETE DESCRIPTION:

The specific responsibilities include:

• The program manager is responsible for creating and onboarding project teams, integrating them into the organization and providing a clear vision of the product. Assist agile teams in efficient implementation and use of AzureDevOps (ADO) to automatically measure and report quality and performance measures to the Program’s Portal.
• Facilitates communication and information exchange between external groups and the project team. They also monitor project progress, provide timely feedback, and drive a culture of agility and learning.
• Define project scope, goals, and deliverable that support milestones in collaboration with Business, senior management and stakeholders
• Develop detailed project plans, communication documents, and manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path related to OCM and training
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools
• Keep all Parties on Track and Informed: Manage daily team meetings to capture updates on the progress of the project, address potential roadblocks, and ensure that the project is on track.
• Manage a central repository of milestones identified by multiple workstream leads, provide status and escalate risks
• Maintain a risk and issues registry and track progress
• Manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans
• Provide timely metrics and audit outcomes to gauge progress towards quality objectives.
• Promote Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) processes to identify and remove project barriers.

SKILLS:

• Conveying technical and functional concepts for a specific technical specialty. Required 5 Years
• Preparing complex technical documentation. Required 11 Years
• Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience. Required 15 Years
• Hands on experience with Azure Dev Ops or JIRA, creating Queries, Dashboards, alerts and data export. Required 3 Years
• Experience with managing training content development and/or delivery. Required 3 Years
• Active Certified Scrum master (Scrum Alliance) or Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (PMI) equivalent certification. Required
• Experience leading OCM activities for new technology implementation. Required 3 Years
• Experience with large scale IT Projects. Required 11 Years
• Experience in Human Services or Child Welfare sector. Highly desired 2 Years
• Project Management Professional Certification. Highly desired
• Hands on MS Project Schedule development skills including tracking dependencies, milestones, resources, and critical path. Required 7 Years
• Hands on Excel and PowerPoint skills to capture, analyze and report data points and progress updates. Required 7 Years
• Hand-on MS Visio experience documenting Process Flow Chart. Required 5 Years
• Hands on experience producing project artifacts such as a Project Plan , Risk Management plan etc. Required 7 Years
• Professional communication both written and verbal. Required 11 Years
  Flexible work from home options available

• The program manager is responsible for creating and onboarding project teams, integrating them into the organization and providing a clear vision of the product. Assist agile teams in efficient implementation and use of AzureDevOps (ADO) to automatically measure and report quality and performance measures to the Program’s Portal.
• Facilitates communication and information exchange between external groups and the project team. They also monitor project progress, provide timely feedback, and drive a culture of agility and learning.
• Define project scope, goals, and deliverable that support milestones in collaboration with Business, senior management and stakeholders
• Develop detailed project plans, communication documents, and manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path related to OCM and training
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools
• Keep all Parties on Track and Informed: Manage daily team meetings to capture updates on the progress of the project, address potential roadblocks, and ensure that the project is on track.
• Manage a central repository of milestones identified by multiple workstream leads, provide status and escalate risks
• Maintain a risk and issues registry and track progress
• Manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans
• Provide timely metrics and audit outcomes to gauge progress towards quality objectives.
• Promote Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) processes to identify and remove project barriers