Role: Project Manager
Location: New York, NY – Remote
Duration: 18 Months
 
Job Profile Description

• Manages moderately complex or complex projects end-to-end to deliver business outcomes, ensuring that the project is completed on time, within budget, and to a high level of client satisfaction.
• Develops and maintains detailed, robust, high-quality risk plan and project plan including resources, scope, schedule, cost, assumptions, dependencies, etc., keeping plans updated through the project lifecycle.
• Understands the impact of scope changes and adjusts project plans and communicates accordingly.
• Interacts and maintains ongoing communication at the appropriate levels within the team as well as with the stakeholders, and ensures everyone on the delivery team understands their roles and responsibility.
• Negotiates resource requirements with responsible management when faced with conflicts in priorities.
• Undertakes regular work streams and project meetings, documenting and following up on actions and risks identified from the meetings.
• Assigns work to entry level professional and support staff, ensuring adherence to departmental standards and procedures.
• Reviews significant project proposals of high complexity and ambiguous parameters with high visibility and identifiable risk to the Company, validates all project requirements, and provides recommended changes to proposal, as appropriate.
• Explores and recommends solutions to the project requirements for projects where there is no identified precedent.
• Participates in recommending new standards and procedures based upon project experience and results.
• Below responsibility statements apply to PMO specific jobs:
• Provides project/program management expertise and guidance to the regional, divisional, and global project management community.
• Facilitates regional/divisional governance and portfolio oversight.
• Provides guidance on development and implementation of standards, methods, tools, templates for project management, execution, and reporting.
• Manages regular project/program assessments through toll gate reviews and health checks.

 
Job Description:

• Manages moderately complex or complex projects end-to-end to deliver business outcomes, ensuring that the project is completed on time, within budget, and to a high level of client satisfaction.
• Develops and maintains detailed, robust, high-quality risk plans and project plan including resources, scope, schedule, cost, assumptions, dependencies, etc., keeping plans updated through the project lifecycle.
• Understands the impact of scope changes and adjusts project plans and communicates accordingly.
• Interacts and maintains ongoing communication at the appropriate levels within the team as well as with the stakeholders, and ensures everyone on the delivery team understands their roles and responsibility.
• Negotiates resource requirements with responsible management when faced with conflicts in priorities.
• Undertakes regular work streams and project meetings, documenting and following up on actions and risks identified from the meetings.
• Assigns work to entry level professional and support staff, ensuring adherence to departmental standards and procedures.
• Reviews significant project proposals of high complexity and ambiguous parameters with high visibility and identifiable risk to the Company, validates all project requirements, and provides recommended changes to proposal, as appropriate.
• Explores and recommends solutions to the project requirements for projects where there is no identified precedent.
• Participates in recommending new standards and procedures based upon project experience and results.

PMO specific jobs:

• Provides project/program management expertise and guidance to the regional, divisional, and global project management community.
• Facilitates regional/divisional governance and portfolio oversight.
• Provides guidance on development and implementation of standards, methods, tools, templates for project management, execution, and reporting.
• Manages regular project/program assessments through toll gate reviews and health checks.

 
Additional information:

• Larger program experience
• PM across multiple teams
• Seasoned in this role
• Create project plans and track them
• Executive PowerPoints
• Creating meaningful decks for lead executives
• Working with stakeholders to understand their issues
• 3 work streams
• Oversee the program management responsibilities
• Matrix role - working across multiple teams
• PMO experience

 
Applications to be supported:

• Microsoft Suite
• Understanding technology and security life cycle
• Cloud Experience (Nice to have)

 

About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions.
 
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
 
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LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer. 


At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $62.00/hr.