Project Management Specialist

Yoh has a contract opportunity for a Project Management Specialist to join our client in Phoenix.

Job Overview:
- This is an exciting project role where strategic perspective and hands-on collaboration are required.

Job Responsibilities:
- Provide overall project administration in the evolution of a state government department of motor vehicle enterprise software application suite.
- This position will provide broad cross-domain and cross-disciplinary expertise in establishing the schedule and measurements that will be used to design and develop the department's software solution.
- As a member of the project team, the Project Management Specialist will work in an interactive environment with business and technical staff to ensure a high degree of collaboration in support of a successful overall solution.
- Establishing a forward looking project plan, ensuring compliance against milestones, and managing established budget measurements.

Job Qualifications:
- Minimum three (3) years of experience in managing a project plan for an enterprise software solution utilizing primarily the Microsoft Project management tool.
- Proven expertise in the use of Microsoft Project advanced features and functionality as applied to a multi-million dollar and multi-year software project.
- Experience with the integration of Microsoft Project to other Microsoft adjacent products (ie SharePoint, Team Foundation Server, etc.)
- Experience in developing a master project plan with a minimum of 10,000 elements inclusive of resource allocation and leveling.
- Experience in establishing project management baseline in order to effectively benchmark a multi-year software development project.
- Ability to develop and manage software measures and metrics to support a master project plan's milestones, timeline and effort projections.
- Ability to analyze project plan information in order to derive any potential budget overage, underage and/or constraint.
- Ability to author project status reporting for senior business and technical management and to effectively provide related presentations to the senior team.
- Ability to prepare and present current-state and future-state analysis (written and verbal) to the software development team, senior management, and other internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to engage project leads/teams and stakeholders to resolve project constraint issues as well as articulating the benefits of project management in general.
- Ability to facilitate team meetings and capture feedback from discussions to assist in project improvements.
- Strong skill and ability to: collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources.
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of Project Management theory, concepts and principles (eg theory of constraints, critical path methodology, project risk management, triple constraints, project scope management, project management life cycle etc.).
- Candidate must have a PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification.
- Candidate must be an excellent communicator.

Discover all that's possible with Yoh. Apply now.

Recruiter: EJ D

Yoh is a professional staffing provider with over 70 years of experience in the short- and long-term staffing services industry.

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V.

Tax Term: CON_W2

J2W: INFOTECH

Ref: 1028241

Branch: IT & Telecom