Project Management
Job Title: Project Management
Location:  Austin, TX 
 
DESCRIPTION:

Follows structured project management principles to initiate, plan, execute, control, and close project.

• Manages project to assure project is completed within scope, on time, and within budget.

• Coordinates with Vendors for planning, execution, control, and closure

• Supports and coordinate with the business / stakeholders 

• Coordinates with the application delivery team resources

• Identifies potential risks, opportunities, and issues that may have an impact on the project,

• Manages change requests; identifies, tracks, and resolves issues,

• Submits change requests above threshold in the requirements management plan,

• Develops and maintains project documentation,

• Reports progress on schedule in the HHS Project and Portfolio Management (PPM)application,

• Reports project progress to steering committees, in regular project meetings with stakeholders, and recommends corrective action when necessary,

• Ensures project works within the Texas Project Delivery Framework (TPDF) and HHS IT project management governance,

• Archives project artifacts in PPM,

• Accountable to Project Sponsors

 

CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
 
Minimum Requirements:
Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.
Years Required/Preferred Experience
8 Required Experience leading and/or participating on project teams that utilized accepted project management and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies
8 Required Experience in identification of project risks and gaps and able to develop creative and workable solutions to complex problems and policy issues
8 Required Experience with synthesizing, analyzing and evaluating highly complicated and technical information and translating it into easily understandable and concise documents and oral presentations