Project Manager

This position is responsible for one or more various projects that will tend to be from medium to moderately high in complexity
Responsible for assembling project teams with the required skill-sets, leading the team, facilitating meetings, assigning individual responsibilities to individual team-members, identifying appropriate resources needed and developing schedules to insure timely completion of project
Accurately defines the scope of the projects and provides detailed estimates of labor and resources to accomplish the project to IT executives and Project Sponsors
Follows a pre-defined methodology and process and performs impact analysis when material changes need to be made to the project plan
Monitors the progress of those projects for which they are responsible and ensures that resource hours, financial budget and duration do not exceed agreed upon thresholds
Primary Duties and Responsibilities: includes but not limited to: • Develops project plans to a prescribed standard and in a software tool defined by IT management • Assists in the resource and financial budget estimation process for potential information technology projects • Measures the progress of the project(s) by monitoring resource hours and financial budget against the base lined project plan • Communicates with business sponsors and IT executives, functional area managers and/or consultants regarding status of specific projects • Generates weekly and monthly project status reports to a prescribed format and standard as defined by the Project Management Office • Negotiates contracts under the supervision of IT executives and Legal • Facilitates the development and quality control of all projects deliverables as defined by clients Information Technology Project and Portfolio Management Methodology • Performs post-implementation reviews of assigned projects and chronicles key lessons-learned and key "planned” vs
"actual” performance metrics • Performs risk management analysis on assigned projects and develops a comprehensive mitigation plan for identified risks • Escalates issues that will have a material impact on the success of the project to direct supervisor in a timely manner • Identifies resource constraints that will have a material impact on the negotiated completion of assigned projects and recommends alternatives and/or trade-offs Secondary Duties and Responsibilities: • Responsible for enforcing the privacy rules pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as applicable to Clients

MGR187 2 Minimum Education and Qualifications: • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or a related field, and six years of progressive Information Technology work experience • Two years managing low complexity information systems projects (budgets between $100K and $250K and resource hours between 200 and 1,000 hours) • Requires a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification issued from the Project Management Institute (PMI) • Demonstrated knowledge of at least one project portfolio management tool (e.g
MS Project Server) • Intermediate knowledge of Word, Excel and Outlook • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Excellent organizational and multitasking skills • Obtain and maintain at least one or more applicable gaming licenses in multiple jurisdictions ~OR~ • Associates Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or a related field, ten years of progressive Information Technology work experience • Two years managing low complexity information systems projects (budgets between $100K and $250K and resource hours between 200 and 1,000 hours) • Requires a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification issued from the Project Management Institute (PMI) • Demonstrated knowledge of at least one project portfolio management tool (e.g
MS Project Server) • Intermediate knowledge of Word, Excel and Outlook • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Excellent organizational and multitasking skills •Competencies: Incumbent will master the following competencies while in this position: • Development of comprehensive project plans using the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in the project schedule tool selected by the Project Management Office (PMO) • Estimate duration and effort for project tasks with the aid of functional managers and technical leads
• Project risk identification and mitigation • Ability to base-line a project plan, identify the projects critical path and monitor the project plan once base-lined • Project Earned Value Management (EVM) analysis • Measurement of critical project metrics (e.g
budget, resource hours, critical milestone dates) • Excellent written and oral communication • Thorough understanding of the Clients Ordinance (TERO) as it relates to employment Training Requirements: • Knowledge of Clients corporate and department policies and procedures • Appropriate regulations that pertain to Clients information systems • Client IS project management process and methodology • Purchase request review and approval with enterprise supply-chain management application • Clients budget planning and analysis process and procedures • Project estimation process and guidelines Physical Demands and Work Environment: • Office work environment • Must be able to sit in front of a computer screen for extended periods of time • 10%-25% travel may be required for this position • May require occasional weekend and evening work • Must be able to work various shifts and flexible hours