Project Manager (Remote Opportunity)

VetsEZ is currently seeking a Project Manager to join a team to support a project with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The candidate must reside within the continental US.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain project management plans, including work breakdown structures, performance metrics, activity schedules, staffing requirements, deliverable schedules, and milestone schedules. The Candidate will maintain these schedules using project tracking tools as directed by the government.
• Coordinate, facilitate, and conduct meetings, create meeting agendas, create meeting minutes, and updates to the project management plans.
• Provide monthly status reports to the PM and COR, describing project statuses,
• Accomplishments, pending issues, and cost tracking.
• Manage workloads for a team of developers and technical administrators.
• Respond and triage customer inquiries related to services and solutions requests.
• Analyze business requirements, conduct requirements elicitation and elaboration, to determine level of effort, milestones, activities, and plans.
• Conduct research and provide recommendations for technical approaches for business process improvements to support customer.
• Develop and implement an “as-is” or “to-be” business process models for each information system.
• Develop custom solutions with team of developers and system administrators providing innovative technical approaches to solve business problems.
• Develop and conduct internal testing, UAT testing, and other testing phases including tracking issues and defects from identification to resolution.
• Develop and conduct deployment plan by coordinating cross functional teams and across various internal customer divisions and external vendors as needed.
• Develop technical user guides, system reference documents, and training materials.
• Providing end-user training and support for developed solutions.
• Develop a transition plan that describes how work and knowledge will be transitioned to federal employees, or another contractor, if applicable. The transition plan shall include timelines, required activities, and all documentation acquired and required by the government.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or greater in Computer Science, IT, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience
• Experience using Microsoft Project, Jira, and other standard programs
• Experience with life cycle and project management methodologies.
• Knowledge and experience with formal delivery methodologies SAFe, Agile, Scrum, etc.
• Familiarity with Government contract work and software development is preferred.
• Experience interfacing with senior-level stakeholders.
• Strong leadership and customer service skills.

Additional Qualifications:

• Experience in the VA or other federal organizations desired.
• Ability to obtain a Government clearance.

Benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision
• 401k with Employer Match 
• PTO + Federal Holidays  
• Corporate Laptop 
• Training opportunities  
• Remote Opportunity

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

Sorry, we are unable to offer sponsorship at this time.