Project Manager

We are looking for Project Manager for our client in Jackson, MS Job Title Project Manager Job Location Jackson, MS Job Type Contract Job Description Required Skills Experience as a business analyst andor project manager with 3+years of experience.

Experience in gathering, documenting, and communicating business requirements andor user stories with 3+years of experience.

Experience with a project requiring knowledge of project management principles or agile software development techniques, methodologies and best practices with 3+years of experience.

Experience with organizing project teams and work plans for multiple projects with 3+years of experience.

Experience estimating and planning project timelines and milestones, and administering task schedules with 3+years of experience.

Experience in designing, documenting, and improving business processes with 3+years of experience.

Experience with projects requiring an understanding of application programming, relational database concepts, and system design with 3+years of experience.

Experience research and writing Advanced Planning Documents required by Federal partners in the area of health and human services with 3+years of experience.

Project Management Skills Preparing project plans with 3+years of experience.

Facilitating discussions and consensus among various stakeholders with 3+years of experience.

Analyzing and defining complex business problems to provide solutions that meet business requirements with 3+years of experience.

Defining and documenting business requirements, user stories, processes, and workflows with 3+years of experience.

Designing and configuring detailed specifications for applications to meet business requirements and user stories with 3+years of experience.

Ensuring delivery of high-quality applications and re-engineered processes with 3+years of experience.

Developing project proposals and recommendations to stakeholders with 3+years of experience.

Developing project plans to identify project scope, objectives, milestones, deliverables, project schedule, budget and resources with 3+years of experience.

Providing timely and comprehensive project status reports to project team and supervisory management with 3+years of experience.

Receiving direction from supervisory management, providing appropriate, accurate and tactful comment or feedback in a timely manner with 3+years of experience.

Managing and monitoring project budget and expenditures with 3+years of experience.

Tracking and monitoring project progress against the project plan, requirements, user stories, processes, milestones and quality indicators with 3+years of experience.

Gathering information on business functions, processes, procedures and information needs through a variety of methods, including process workshops, workflow analysis, and interviews with subject matter experts, application developers and other technical personnel with 3+years of experience.

Developing detailed knowledge of corporate processes and associated tools used to support these processes with 3+years of experience.

Working in collaboration with project team members, and other key stakeholders, to define and document detailed business requirements and user stories with 3+years of experience.

Evaluating current business requirements, user stories and processes to identify automation andor improvement initiatives with 3+years of experience.

Acting as Change Agent to improve business operations and manage the impact of changes on business with 3+years of experience.

Working with stakeholders to develop and execute software testing strategy, including test plans, test cases and confirmation of expected results with 3+years of experience.

Ensuring all documentation relevant to the applicationproject is developed, clear and concise, and easy to maintain (specifications, design, features, processes, procedures, use cases, test scripts, interfaces, reports, training materials, user manuals, help systems, etc.) with 3+years of experience.

Instituting a quality assurance, audit and post-implementation process for all application upgradesprojects to ensure that they meet client expectations with 3+years of experience.

Managing a diverse and complex suite of projects simultaneously with 3+years of experience.

Managing any assigned staff, including contractors, working as a team with 3+years of experience.

Business Skills Ability to interact with functional users and technical staff regarding business and information technology needs with 3+years of experience.

Ability to listen and solve problems with 3+years of experience.

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with 3+years of experience.

Ability to exercise flexibility and good judgment in assessing business issues and associated risks with 3+years of experience.

Ability to work effectively with a variety of departments and management levels with 3+years of experience.

Advanced writing skills, with the ability to write effective memos, reports and documentation with 3+years of experience.

Ability to present alternativessolutions and supporting data clearly and convincingly to client stakeholders with 3+years of experience.

Ability to communicate thoughts and express complex ideas tactfully in simple terminology, both verbally and in written communications with 3+years of experience.

Interpersonal skills necessary to elicit detailed facts from subject matter experts, such as applications developers and program staff with 3+years of experience.

Software Proficient level skill in MS Office products Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Experience with project management tracking software Preferred Skills At least three (3) years of experience as a business analyst andor project manager working on Federal Government projects.

Experience with projects requiring an understanding of online web portal architectures and how legacy and web-based systems interface with each other.

Experience with designing and building n-tier software applications.

Experience with Visio or similar process flow software..

Experience using JIRA and Slack software.

Experience with agile software methodology.

SCRUM certification (SCRUM Product owner).

Required Degree Bachelorrsquos Degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems or Business from an accredited post-secondary academic institution.

Required Certifications PMP.