Project Manager - Hybrid

Company: Viva USA Inc.
Location: Durham
Posted on: April 2, 2025

Job Description:

Title: Project Manager - Hybrid

The full job description covers all associated skills, previous experience, and any qualifications that applicants are expected to have.






























Description:















The client is seeking an experienced Project Manager. This management role will work with multiple internal and external stakeholders, project teams, divisions, departments, and vendors to strategize, implement, and maintain the various modernization initiative for the client programs. This position will interact with all levels of staff in the client including executive staff.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Review project proposals or plans to determine a time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing projects, staffing requirements and the assignment of available departmental resources to various project phases.
Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones, and required activities and tasks.
Provide leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle and confer with project staff to outline a work plan.
Establish a work plan and staffing for project activities, iterations, or phases, and arrange for recruitment or assignment of project personnel.
Ensure that project goals are in line with business objectives.
Ensure that project goals are achieved.
Assign duties and responsibilities to project personnel and define the scope of their authority.
Direct and coordinate the activities of project personnel to ensure projects progress on schedule and within budget.
Review status reports prepared by project personnel and modify schedules or plans as required.
Work with business and cross-functional teams to develop Business Case and Cost Benefit analysis for prioritized initiatives within the program.
Manage multiple Vendor onboarding and identify key requirements needed from cross-functional teams and Vendors.
Work with other program managers to identify risks and opportunities across multiple projects within the department.
Manage budget across various workstreams and funding channels for maximum productivity.
Manage resource allocations and expectations for program.
Collaborate with the client to ensure program compliance with the client IT Roadmap and all client Privacy and security requirements.


Skills:
The selected candidate must be a results-oriented individual with a strong work ethic and must be able to demonstrate excellent leadership, negotiation, time management, facilitation, and organizational skills.
Experience in communicating in a fashion tailored to the audience and their needs.
Excellent written communication and presentation skills
Demonstrates experience in working effectively with all levels of staff, clients, and other IT personnel.
Experience in the responsibility for acquiring and utilizing the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timeframes, and quality for a program.
Ability to identify and plan systematic corrective action to reduce errors and improve the quality of the systems and services, by examination of the root causes of problems.
Ability to build, influence, lead and motivate effective teams towards end results.


Management prefers applicants with the following:
Candidate with PgMP Certification
Candidate with Agile (PMI-ACP) Certification
Experience managing or supervising programs involving Application modernization and modularization projects.
Experience collaborating with State and Local Government
Experience in complex, cross-functional team environments
Knowledge of social services and medicaid programs or similarly complex case management systems



Skill - Required / Desired - Amount - of Experience
Program Management experience managing multiple large complex projects - Required - 3 - Years
Experience creating roadmaps for the portfolio - Required - 3 - Years
Proven track record of delivering IT projects within budget, scope and schedule - Required - 3 - Years
Objective decision-making ability based on strategic objectives priority, business performance analysis and resource availability - Required - 3 - Years
Hands on experience managing project risk, cost, schedule, quality, testing, and communications - Required - 3 - Years
Strong supervision, organizational, interpersonal and time management skills - Required - 3 - Years
Demonstrated presentation, training skills, oral and written communication skills. - Required - 3 - Years
Solid work experience with project management tools (e.g. Microsoft Project) - Required - 3 - Years
Experience with MS Office(Word, Excel and Power point) - Required - 5 - Years
Strong organization and analytical thinking skills with experience preparing Project plan for complex business needs. - Required - 5 - Years
Ability to communicate effectively at all job levels, use excellent evaluation skills, and ability to relay information in legible reports as required - Required - 5 - Years
Experience with Agile Methodologies. - Highly desired - -
PMI certification Project Management Professional (PMP) - Desired - -
Experience with Cloud technologies & SaaS applications running on Cloud - Desired - -
Experience collaborating with Federal, State and Local Government - Highly desired - -
Experience managing implementation of a statewide IT project - Desired - -
Experience in establishing and/or implementing governance models for IT modernization efforts - Desired - -
Experience with projects related to Application transformation and Modernization - Required - 2 - Years















Mandatory skills:










Agile Methodologies, Cloud technologies, SaaS applications,
social services, medicaid programs, case management systems,
Application transformation, Modernization, IT Roadmap,
business performance analysis, resource availability, business objective, business case,
project risk, project cost, project schedule, project quality, project testing, project communications,
project proposals, project deliverable, project life cycle, project goals, projects progress, project plan,
cost benefit analysis, resource allocation, program compliance, privacy requirements, security requirements









VIVA USA is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a professional working environment that is free from discrimination and unlawful harassment. The Management, contractors, and staff of VIVA USA shall respect others without regard to race, sex, religion, age, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, physical, mental or sensory disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or status as a Vietnam-era, recently separated veteran, Active war time or campaign badge veteran, Armed forces service medal veteran, or disabled veteran. Please contact us at hr@viva-it.com for any complaints, comments and suggestions.






Contact Details :

Account co-ordinator: Binodh M.T, Phone : (408) 709 3343, Email: staffing10@viva-it.com



VIVA USA INC.
3601 Algonquin Road, Suite 425
Rolling Meadows, IL 60008
staffing10@viva-it.com - http://www.viva-it.com
Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.

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