Job Description
Develop and manage an integrated master project schedule. Establish schedule baseline and manage updates to the baseline in accordance with program office’s integrated change control procedures.
Responsibilities include:
- Serve as a primary point of contact and liaison for the assigned program office and other program offices.
- Decompose project work into tasks and subtasks that are represented on the master project schedule.
- Meet regularly with project team to review progress on current tasks and upcoming milestones.
- Apply knowledge of project management to help the team plan and estimate the duration of future tasks.
- Collaborate with assigned program office to establish schedules and plans that allocate available resources to best serve client or customer needs.
- Provide executive updates, reports, and dashboards on program status as required.
- Maintain master schedule, revises as needed, and alert PM and appropriate client staff of schedule changes or delays.
- Participate in planning meetings for assigned program office and other program offices.
- Performs other related duties, as required.
Must have:
- 5 years of experience using Microsoft Project to prepare logically linked schedules for programs or proposals and Bachelors degree or 9 years of related experience
- Knowledge of Microsoft Project macros, views, custom reports in order to sort and present the data by "team", "current tasks", "late tasks", etc
- Experience with Excel to include pivot tables, macros, lookup tables
Nice to have:
- Strong working knowledge of Jira
- Advanced skill in critical path analysis or in task decomposition
- Ability to construct and manage logically linked tasks to complete defined project Milestones
- Ability to report negative slack when predecessor tasks push a milestone past its scheduled due date
- Experience with using MS Project to support Earned Value Management
- Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP) certification
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
- Experience with Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), HR Process Design, Master Production Scheduling (MPS), or Agile Project Management
Security Clearance
- Active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance
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