Current Openings
IT Project Manager
Nashville, TENNESSEE | Contract
Post Date: 03/27/24
Job ID: 24-00467
Job Type: Contract
Job Description
Job Title: IT Project Manager
Location: Nashville, TN (Remote)
Duration: 12 months
Note: Candidate must be local, must be able to be onsite for onboarding, technology needs, and as required.
Job descriptions:
Required /Desired:
Location: Nashville, TN (Remote)
Duration: 12 months
Note: Candidate must be local, must be able to be onsite for onboarding, technology needs, and as required.
Job descriptions:
- Client is need of a solid, consistent and creative Project Manager who can work in an open and collaborative team environment.
- The person in this role should be someone that is excited by new challenges, and someone that is passionate and seeks to improve state government in the way information technology services are delivered.
- The successful candidate should be someone with advanced analytical skills, a collaborative professional who excels in dynamic, sometimes ambiguous, complex, enterprise-level activities by taking ownership, driving action, and ensuring results.
- Able to take direction and respond quickly to both planned and unplanned activities, ensuring delivery and kept promises to matrixed business partners.
- The Project Manager will work directly with colleagues at all levels of the agency, and will be adept at navigating political corporate structures and team dynamics; developing executive level communications; and producing actionable output from communicated direction and vision.
- Most critically, this position requires flexibility, agility, a positive attitude, sound work ethic, ability and desire to learn, and consistent delivery of value through ambiguity as a partner-focused change agent.
- Must be able to work independently on assignments while simultaneously engaging as a collaborative part of a larger departmental team.
Required /Desired:
- 5+ years experience in IT Project Management.
- Functional knowledge of traditional Project Management and Agile methodologies
- Advanced time management and analytical skills.
- Experience managing infrastructure, application development, mobile technology, software implementation projects.
- PMP and/or Agile certifications preferred.
- Advanced level knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, MS Project, Azure DevOps.
- Experience with ITIL preferred.
- Excellent critical-thinking and problem-solving skills with experience scoping projects.
- Ability to interact with individuals at all levels and roles, including IT team members, business partners, and external vendors.
- Ability to work with a cross-functional team to successfully create, design, and implement a project.
- Ability to clearly and concisely provide project status updates to senior management.
