Project Manager
Albany, NY
Contracted
Experienced
“Join GD Resources for dynamic opportunities in business management and IT, where innovation meets excellence.”
About the Company:
GD Resources is a Veteran Women-Owned Business Management and Information Technology company committed to excellence. GD Resources provides dynamic opportunities for veterans and professionals alike to contribute to innovative projects and drive success in a collaborative and supportive environment. Join us to make a difference, advance your career, and grow with a company that values integrity, diversity, and continuous improvement.
Disclaimer: Applicants must be located within a commutable distance to the job site. Please do not apply if you are not within reasonable commuting range, relocation is not available for this position. Thank you for understanding.
Job Title: Project Manager
Place of Performance: Albany, NY (Hybrid – up to 50% telecommuting)
Minimum Experience: 84 Months
Rate: $51/hr - $63/hr (Final offer will depend on experience)
Employment Type: Contract
Duration: 30 Months
Position Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to oversee large, complex IT initiatives for a public sector engagement. The role requires a high level of expertise in managing multimillion-dollar IT projects with multiple stakeholders, third-party vendors, and diverse technical teams. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership, communication, and strategic planning skills to ensure successful delivery within scope, schedule, and budget.
Key Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
About the Company:
GD Resources is a Veteran Women-Owned Business Management and Information Technology company committed to excellence. GD Resources provides dynamic opportunities for veterans and professionals alike to contribute to innovative projects and drive success in a collaborative and supportive environment. Join us to make a difference, advance your career, and grow with a company that values integrity, diversity, and continuous improvement.
Disclaimer: Applicants must be located within a commutable distance to the job site. Please do not apply if you are not within reasonable commuting range, relocation is not available for this position. Thank you for understanding.
Job Title: Project Manager
Place of Performance: Albany, NY (Hybrid – up to 50% telecommuting)
Minimum Experience: 84 Months
Rate: $51/hr - $63/hr (Final offer will depend on experience)
Employment Type: Contract
Duration: 30 Months
Position Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to oversee large, complex IT initiatives for a public sector engagement. The role requires a high level of expertise in managing multimillion-dollar IT projects with multiple stakeholders, third-party vendors, and diverse technical teams. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership, communication, and strategic planning skills to ensure successful delivery within scope, schedule, and budget.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with executive leadership, business units, and IT teams to define project scope, strategy, resource allocation, and schedules.
- Lead daily project operations and provide direction to portfolio teams across various functions.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive project management plans (PMPs) including goals, dependencies, risk mitigation strategies, and contingency planning.
- Ensure consistent project documentation, reporting, and adherence to standards throughout the project lifecycle.
- Manage deliverables, milestones, and schedules using project tracking tools.
- Drive accountability through task assignments and stakeholder engagement.
- Facilitate reengineering efforts and support change management initiatives.
- Oversee project budgets, track expenditures, and ensure financial compliance.
- Conduct regular meetings, scrums, and executive briefings to monitor progress and resolve issues.
- Generate and present detailed project status reports for leadership and stakeholders.
Qualifications:
- 84 months experience in managing and leading multiple large, complex IT projects for US Government agencies, functioning as the project manager. Large, complex IT projects are defined primarily as those with the following characteristics: budget over $500,000, duration over 12 months, multiple funding sources including Federal and grant funding, management of third party vendors, management of external stakeholders, multi-level project team organization, deployment to geographically diverse end users.
- 84 months experience developing and executing project plans including management of Charter, Scope, Schedule, Cost, Quality, Communication, Change, Risk, Issue, Resource management plans, and managing the plans throughout the project management lifecycle from initiation through closeout.
- 84 months of experience in developing and managing formal project schedules in a project tracking tool, such as Microsoft Project, including tracking progress and variances against baselines utilizing both Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid methodologies; using standard PM techniques (e.g., scrum sessions) to update project schedule; and presenting schedule/status updates to both ITS and client agency’s leaderships.
- 84 months experience developing, writing, and managing detailed Scope Document, reviewing project deliverables and managing the deliverables acceptance process and using the project scope and deliverable management process to manage the project change request process.
- 84 months experience with project quality planning, quality assurance, end-to-end system testing, quality control, user acceptance testing (UAT) defect and metrics management, and quality governance.
- 48 months experience managing COTS software implementation projects and/or in-house application development (SDLC) projects.
- Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP) AND PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®
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