Senior Project Manager

Mandatory Skills:

1. Bachelor's-level degree from a recognized college or university. Alternatively, qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis. NOTE : If no degree, Resource would need to demonstrate a total of 11 years of experience to meet MQ #3 below (i.e., minimum 7 years + 4 additional qualifying years). A recognized college or university is defined as an institution of higher learning approved by the Office of Higher Education of any given state or a foreign college or university of comparable standing.
2. Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI). The PMP certification is required and may not be substituted with additional experience.
3. A minimum of seven (7) years of broad, extensive, and increasingly responsible experience applying PM principles, methods, techniques, and tools. At least four (4) years of that experience must have been as a senior PM of one or more large or complex IT projects.
4. A minimum of four (4) years of experience providing diverse technical and management services to government agencies.
5. A minimum of four (4) years of team building, knowledge transfer, and/or mentoring experience.
6. A minimum of four (4) years of experience leading and facilitating team meetings.
7. A minimum of four (4) years' experience in the following:

• Schedule management and Microsoft (MS) Project
• Risk and issue management
• Stakeholder management
• Scope and change management
• Business process review and gap analysis
• Consulting experience for a project worth at least $5M
• Experience as a lead on an Agile-based project using Agile tools, e.g., JIRA or equivalent technologies.

Desirable Skills:

1. Master's degree or doctorate from a recognized college or university. A recognized college or university is defined as an institution of higher learning approved by the Office of Higher Education of any given state or a foreign college or university of comparable standing.
2. Nine (9) or more years of broad, extensive, and increasingly responsible experience applying PM principles, methods, techniques, and tools. At least six (6) years of that experience must have been as a senior PM of one or more large or complex IT projects.
3. Six (6) or more years of experience providing diverse technical and management services to government agencies.
4. Six (6) or more years of team building, knowledge transfer, and/or mentoring experience.
5. Six (6) or more years of experience leading and facilitating team meetings.
6. Six (6) or more years' experience in the following:

• Schedule management and Microsoft (MS) Project
• Risk and issue management
• Stakeholder management
• Scope and change management
• Business process review and gap analysis
• Consulting experience for a project worth at least $5M
• Experience as a lead on an Agile-based project using Agile tools, e.g., JIRA or equivalent technologies.