Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. They are seeking a Project Manager to support their client by leading delivery for a complex application program, managing scope, schedule, budget, and stakeholder engagement while ensuring quality and adherence to agile delivery practices.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the client COR and stakeholders to plan, prioritize, execute, monitor, and report on project work
- Lead project delivery to ensure milestones and releases are completed on time, within scope, and within budget
- Coordinate and lead meetings with system owners, business owners, technical teams, functional teams, and end users to define and document requirements and implementation priorities
- Ensure quality across requirements analysis, documentation, design, development, testing, deployment, operations, and maintenance activities
- Manage financial activities, including timekeeping, budget tracking, status reporting, briefings, and communications
- Lead project estimation, release planning, scheduling, task management, execution, and tracking for iterative and agile releases
- Manage team resources, including staffing levels, skill alignment, mentoring, training, recruitment, and roll-off planning
- Proactively identify, evaluate, mitigate, and monitor project risks, issues, dependencies, and corrective actions
- Maintain effective communication with stakeholders regarding progress, risks, decisions, and mitigation activities
- Support adoption of modern technologies and delivery practices, including AI-assisted delivery, DevSecOps, automation, and cloud-native approaches
Skills
- Minimum 10 years of experience as an IT Project Manager
- Minimum 3 years of experience managing IT projects of similar size, complexity, and technology environment
- Minimum 2 years of experience leading projects using agile or iterative enterprise performance life-cycle methodologies
- Minimum 2 years of experience leading IT projects for the federal government
- Solid understanding of software engineering disciplines, including requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations and maintenance
- Working knowledge of the Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC) or comparable federal delivery framework
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, manage stakeholder expectations, and rapidly evaluate and adopt new technologies
- Strong project planning, financial management, risk management, and written and verbal communication skills
- Bachelor's degree required; preferred field of study in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Operations Management, or a related field
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance is required
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to facilitate stakeholder meetings and present project status, performance data, risks, and recommendations
- Ability to write clear, concise content and manage sensitive information in a highly confidential manner
- MBA or Master's degree in a relevant field preferred
- PMP, Certified ScrumMaster, PMI-ACP, or comparable project-management/agile certification is preferred
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