Position: Project Lead
Location: Onsite in Moline, IL or Olathe, KS
Pay Rate: $38/hour
Major Purpose
Plans, coordinates, and delivers relatively small tactical projects of low complexity.
Major Duties
• Draft elements of project review reports and presentations to support delivery of the review process.
• Carry out delegated activities to support the production of workstream and project plans that identify and organize all the activities needed to deliver project objectives and that comply with the organization’s project management framework.
• Organize and prepare complex documents using a variety of applications for technology devices, such as standard office software. Also responsible for gathering and summarizing data for special reports.
• Identify, elicit, and document user/project requirements, using appropriate modeling technique, if required. Analyze requirements and validate with original users, eliminating confusion. Outline verification criteria to ensure requirements are met. Maintain documentation and traceability throughout project.
• Deliver stakeholder engagement activities to support the development of effective working relationships for projects and to identify and respond to stakeholder needs and concerns.
• Contribute to the management of risks and issues by maintaining and distributing project and program risk registers and issue logs.
• Contribute to reviewing existing operations in own area of work, and assist in identifying improvements.
• Conduct research, workshops, and other activities to support the specification and agreement of project deliverables.
• Draft elements of product documentation and user training to support handover to business as usual. Contribute to post-project reviews and identification of lessons learned.
Skills, Abilities, Knowledge
• Negotiation
• Prioritizing
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Project Communications Management
• Project Management
• Project Risk and Issue Management
• Verbal Communication
• Project Change Management
• Project Cost and Budget Management
• Project Estimating
• Project Integration Management
• Project Quality Management
• Project Resource Planning and Control
• Project Schedule Management
• Project Scope Management
• Project Tracking and Reporting
• Requirements Elicitation and Facilitation
• Requirements Traceability and Management
• Validate Requirements
• Verify Requirements
• Workflow Management
Education
• Short-Cycle Tertiary Education
Work Experience
• Sound experience and understanding of straightforward procedures or systems (7 to 12 months)
• Very limited (0 to 3 months)