Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include development, tracking, and reporting of project plans, schedules, and budgets, as well as facilitating project team meetings and providing active project oversight over tasks.

Specific Tasks:

• Scheduling and facilitating meetings with project team members providing counsel on the process and priorities, negotiating conflicting viewpoints, and securing consensus as appropriate.

• Preparing project status reports, including:

• Project activities completed during the current period

• Project activities to be completed during future periods

• Potential project concerns

•     Preliminary findings/recommendations as appropriate

Project schedule update

• Assisting with defining the requirements for tasks and services as well overseeing the completion of assigned tasks and ensuring that work is complete according to established agreement and time line.

• Providing project management oversight with time estimates, resource allocations, and managing critical path and milestone deadlines.

• Providing reporting on project progress, analysis of optional solutions and findings and developing plans for future actions.

Qualifications/Requirements:

Business/Application Knowledge:

• Ability to understand the general business functions and goals of project.

• Ability to communicate with project teams in their business terms.

• Ability to comprehend relationships between business activities and application systems.

• Has a working knowledge of current technology platforms.

• Experience with reviewing business processes and recommending improvements.

Project Management Knowledge:

• Ability to determine project objectives and scope of feasibility.

• Ability to produce project status reports on a timely basis, and alert project team of impediments to progress.

• Ability to facilitate project meetings, and bring about consensus and negotiate conflicting viewpoints.

• Understanding of project scheduling techniques, including task dependencies and critical paths.

• Ability to monitor budget and target date variances to keep projects on track.

• Ability to handle multiple responsibilities/projects with conflicting deadlines.

• Ability to communicate, orally and written, in a clear and concise manner.

• Ability to meet difficult deadlines, both individually and as a project team.

• Solid experience with MS Office, MS Project and other applicable computer tools.

• Ability to use standard methodology, tools and frameworks for developing and maintaining project documentation, work plans and project deliverables.

• Ability to develop, maintain review and monitor project plans, recommend changes and report actual progress against project schedules.

Select Associates, Inc. is a consulting and staffing services firm based in Bloomington.  We believe having the right people in the right position is critical to achieving outstanding business goals.  At Select you will work with professionals who have real-world experience.  Servicing our clients as if they were our only client.