IT Project Lead
Posted Today by 1761835149
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
USA
Summary: The IT Project Lead is responsible for coordinating project management tasks within the IT Project Management Office, supporting multiple projects simultaneously. This role involves collaboration with IT staff and business customers, ensuring effective project execution through planning, monitoring, and reporting. The position also includes providing technical assistance to project managers and facilitating communication among stakeholders. The IT Project Lead plays a crucial role in the successful implementation of business solutions and project goals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate initiation, planning, scheduling, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing of assigned tasks.
- Collaborate with IT staff and business customers to accomplish project work.
- Provide technical assistance to project managers with documentation and reporting.
- Lead technical team meetings and work with stakeholders to remove impediments.
- Assist with test coordination, system testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Facilitate meetings, take notes, and communicate results and action items.
- Perform other duties as assigned to maintain operations.
Key Skills:
- Experience in project management in relevant areas.
- Technical assistance to project managers.
- Leadership of teams including developers and analysts.
- Monitoring daily project progress.
- Planning meetings and organizing project logistics.
- Providing detailed updates to stakeholders.
- Experience with training and communications.
- Collaborative work ethic.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
- Ability to generate insightful project reports.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented.
- Project Manager Professional (PMP) certification.
- Experience in the State of Texas.
- Experience with Unemployment Systems.
- Experience with Mainframe and Java projects.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Austin
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Perform project coordination work as a member of the IT Project Management Office, supporting one or more projects concurrently. Work involves coordinating the initiation, planning, scheduling, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing of assigned Worker(s) tasks. Collaborates with all IT staff and business customers to accomplish work. Responsible for the planning, coordination, project planning, project monitoring, and project status reporting and system implementation of moderate to complex business solutions. Provide technical assistance to project managers with documenting plans, schedules, status reports, meetings, and/or change requests. Lead technical team meetings and work with stakeholders to remove impediments. Work directly with project managers to help implement project goals and ensure timely project execution. Provide status updates on assigned work to other project managers. Work with data related to project execution. Assist with coordination of tasks during project execution. Assist with test coordination, system testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Assist with the planning, development and coordination of communications. Assist with the planning, development and coordination of training activities. Schedule and organize meetings. Facilitate and take notes during meetings, communicating results, action items, and decisions to necessary recipients. Perform other duties as assigned to maintain operations.
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Years |
Skills/Experience |
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4-7 |
Experience in project management in relevant areas of project assignment, research and/or planning |
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4-7 |
Provide technical assistance to Project Managers |
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4-7 |
Lead team of developers, system analysts, business analysts in day to day execution of the project |
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4-7 |
Monitor the daily progress of projects |
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4-7 |
Plan meetings and organizing project logistics |
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4-7 |
Provide detailed updates to project managers or other stakeholders |
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4-7 |
Coordinate assigned special projects and update project information |
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4-7 |
Experience with Training and Communications |
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4-7 |
Ability and desire to work collaboratively to ensure successful project execution |
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4-7 |
Working knowledge Microsoft Office |
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4-7 |
Proven ability to generate and deliver reports that provide useful insight into project details |
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4-7 |
Highly organized and detail-oriented with a passion for ensuring projects proceed efficiently and effectively |
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1 |
Project Manager Professional (PMP) certification |
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1 |
State of Texas experience |
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1 |
Unemployment Systems experience |
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2 |
Experience with projects utilizing Mainframe and Java languages |