Project Manager
Description
Project Manager
HighPoint’s professionals focus on helping government agencies and companies implement their most critically strategic initiatives. The role of Project Manager contributes to HighPoint through leadership, project planning, communication management, financial management, stakeholder management, issues and risk management, and scope management
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide exemplary leadership to project team members, stakeholders, and sponsors by creating a productive and engaged team culture, identifying process improvement opportunities, and being accountable to leadership and the client.
- Lead assigned projects to completion by preparing, implementing, monitoring, and updating the project plan.
- Recognize risk and solve project issues through risk and issue management.
- Develop and execute project communication plans to direct project objectives with all stakeholders and provide project executive status.
- Develop and execute project budgets, including resource allocation, vendor management, and project budget change control.
- Define and document project goals, requirements, and priorities with management and/or project sponsors.
- Control and monitor project scope through project close-out.
- Manage and communicate a clear vision of the project objectives to all stakeholders.
- Collect business metrics and assist in project portfolio reporting.
- Manage client meetings by organizing meeting logistics, creating pre-read documents, and providing minutes and action items.
- Support Performance Management Office (PMO) with coordination efforts as needed.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:
- Ability to build effective delivery-focused teams.
- Ability to meet deadlines with supporting client statement of work (SOW)-required reporting.
- Ability to lead complex projects with matrixed teams.
- Knowledge of standard project management processes.
- Experience with project management tools such as MS Project, MS SharePoint, Jira, and Confluence.
- Intermediate level experience with MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Proficiency at developing and delivering executive summaries to senior management and client.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to develop strong client relationships, negotiate deliverables, and balance the needs of team and client.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.
EDUCATION AND YEARS OF EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree from a 4-year college or university and at least two years related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Relevant certification such as Certified Associate Project Manager (CAPM), Project Manager Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Agile, or Six Sigma preferred.
- Knowledge of standard project management processes such as the Project Management Institute’s (PMI).
- Experience with project management tools like MS Project, MS SharePoint, Jira, and Confluence.
ABOUT HIGHPOINT:
HighPoint is a growth-oriented firm that provides a unique, differentiated employee culture relative to our Federal market peers. We leverage this growth-oriented and employee-focused culture to attract and retain a higher grade of talent than our peers to be an employer of choice.
HighPoint helps government agencies elevate the citizen experience (CX) by improving the touchpoints through which citizens interact with government. We were founded in 2006 by Ben Lanius with the spirit of transforming how agencies connect with and empower citizens to deliver on mission-critical objectives.
At HighPoint, our focus is on delivering results that matter. We support and modernize our federal customer’s mission critical systems and functions. Agility is at our core: it is the mantra that drives us to succeed. We work quickly, analytically and deliver on agency priorities.
HighPoint is a privately held company with a team of over 130 passionate professionals spread across 12 states in the U.S.
HighPoint Digital, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
HighPoint Digital, Inc. will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with HighPoint’s legal duty to furnish information.