Building Connections for Future Roles - Virginia Project Manager

Job Description

Job DescriptionWhile we’re not actively hiring for this opportunity at the moment, we’d like to start the conversation now to build the relationship and stay connected for when an opportunity arises.More about aFit:You want to work where you know you are a perfect fit. At aFit, a woman owned (WBE) company based in Indianapolis, we are devoted to being collaborative, honorable, and accountable. Our company provides project-based staffing for government and commercial organizations. To our prospective clients, aFit offers a talented workforce in a team-based environment to produce concrete and reliable outcomes. At aFit, we focus on building strong relationships and keeping the day-to-day flexible in an in-person or remote-enabled environment.

aFit Staffing, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

Key Responsibilities

The ideal candidates is a Virginia resident and would be able to work in-office or a hybrid work schedule.

City: Richmond, VA

• Serve as a hands-on technical project manager with development staff and business groups
• Coordinate and communicate with Information Technology Division management and staff to coordinate work staff and resourcing.
• Communicate timelines and expectations to technical and business staff
• Facilitate multi-functional technical team collaboration.
• Collaborate with vendors, consultants, and contractors in the execution of projects, including contract management, and work with procurement office(s).
• Adhere to state regulated project management practices and governance requirements.
• Coordinate with state agencies project management offices.
• Maintain project budget, plans, tasks, schedules, risks, and status and disseminate information to team members and customers as defined in the communication plan.
• Ensure documentation of requirements and use cases, facilitate design workshops for assigned project.
• Ensure preparation of test objectives, test plans and test cases for assigned project.
• Provide the management of project milestones and deliverables for on-time and on-budget delivery.
• Define, measure, and clearly communicate progress with project metrics.
• Support system and application training efforts.

Skills and Qualifications

• Experience managing large MultiStream projects valued at $10M or greater each

• Experience in IT infrastructure delivery (Networking, physical plant, vendor management, site provisioning)

• Experience in both Scaled Agile and Waterfall Project Management

• PMP Certification

• VITA Certification, preferred.

• Agile Scrum Master Certification

• SAFe® Scrum Master Certification

• Microsoft Office Products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server)

• Experience managing projects with high visibility and high stakes

• Experience managing projects that had to coordinate with at least one external team.

• Experience managing a project as part of a larger program and under PMO governance.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Systems Engineering, Management Information Systems, Project Management or Finance/Business