Project Manager 2

Padmore Global Connections is looking for a Senior Project Manager to join the Enterprise Systems Department at Georgia Tech Research Institute. This role involves managing projects through their full life cycle, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure project deliverables are met within scope, budget, and schedule.

Responsibilities:

• Manages projects through full life cycle from project definition through implementation of project deliverables
• Creates collaborative partnership with all internal and external team members to accomplish the deliverables
• Plans, directs, and monitors the work produced by the team(s)
• Responsible for managing stakeholder relationships, including general, ongoing communications, negotiation of scope and schedule changes, key risks, issue resolution, and ongoing progress reporting
• Shapes client expectations, and manages scope, risk and budget related to the project
• Proactively identifies potential project risks and consults with key stakeholders and departmental leadership on how to develop and execute mitigation strategies

Requirements:

• 8-10 years job-related experience
• Effective analytical and presentation skills
• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal skills; ability to tailor communication to different audiences, such as management, stakeholders, users, SMEs, developers, and others
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with both functional area experts and technical team members
• Demonstrated experience using JIRA and other project management tools
• Strong working knowledge of Agile Software Development Lifecycle Process, including incremental/iterative and Waterfall methods
• Ability to manage work on multiple projects with competing priorities
• Experience overseeing user acceptance testing and providing test cases/test scenarios for UAT
• Experience working with web application development teams who use technologies such as Java and Drupal
• Excellent organizational experience and professionalism
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Self-motivated and able to work independently
• Candidate must be a US CITIZEN to be considered for this position
• A Bachelors or Masters degree is required
• Experience being both a Project Manager and Business Analyst on the same project is strongly preferred
• Experience working in research/educational institutions or small IT companies preferred
• Preferred degree in Business, Accounting, or IT-related field
• Project Management certification (PMP) preferred