Company Description
RESPEC’s Data and Technology Solutions business unit, in partnership with Wichita Tribal Enterprises (WTE), seeks an experienced Project Manager. The selected applicant will be an WTE employee.
Job Description
The qualified Project Manager maintains project file documents, tracks construction progress, issues change request (CR) approvals, maintains project financial data, and updates contracts as needed. The Project Manager also prepares contract documentation, including statements of work and CRs, as well as coordinates with and manages external contractors on a full-time basis.
Qualifications
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manages multiple projects from planning to implementation using industry best practices in Project Management Institute (PMI) following Agile methodologies
- Creates long- and short-term plans, including setting targets for milestones and adhering to deadlines
- Delegates project tasks to the employees best positioned to complete them and for accountability
- Successfully executes, manages, and provides oversight on a major government contract providing Information Technology (IT) support
- Provides fiscal reporting on projects, including earned value and cost to complete
- Exercises responsibility for planning, organizing, leading, and directing activities through a team of employees engaged in providing a broad range IT engineering disciplines engaged in research and technology, design, development, and operations
- Oversees short- and long-range planning and innovations for the contract and corporate activity
- Manages and oversees human resource programs and fiscal matters
- Develops and implements operating policies and procedures to ensure compliance
- Ensures company activities are administered within contract provisions and company policy
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in an IT or computer sciences-related program
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to talk to people at multiple levels within the organization and with federal clients
- Team player with the ability to develop and maintain working relationships with internal and client project stakeholders, colleagues, and technical team members
- Knowledge of technology system development lifecycles and methodologies, including Waterfall and Agile Project Management Professional (
- Strong people-management skills, including the ability to manage highly skilled teams of varying sizes
- Ability to handle a multi-customer, multi-user consolidated contract
- Strong analytical skills
- Demonstrated management capability
- Demonstrated effectiveness in oral and written communications
- Demonstrated expertise in principles, fundamentals, and practices in IT support services
- Strong planning and organizing skills
- Strong skills in information systems planning and applications
- Effective interaction and diplomacy skills
- Ability to manage projects and groups of personnel at multiple locations
- Skills in Agile Methodology tools such as DevOps (An Azure product)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5 years of IT contract management experience
- Minimum of 3 years of government experience in a similar position
- 3 years of managing employees
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
- Past Project Manager for a government IT support services program
- Management of up to 20 employees in a government contract environment
Additional Information
Compensation: Salary depends on experience and expertise. Benefits offered through WTE.
What We Do
In a world where one superhero can handle almost any problem, our entire team of award-winning technology experts is on a mission to make your business better.
With extra vision to see solutions that others can’t and vast knowledge to bridge the gaps that others don’t, we’re transformers with the know-how to solve the world’s hardest problems. At RESPEC, we thrive on technology and making our clients successful. This is why we do what we do.
From the depths of a cavern to the heights of a volcano, from an antiquated computer system to a business in dire need of re-engineering, our technical and business experts find solutions for extreme situations... like the time we cleansed and migrated 100 million rows of legacy data or the time we protected Mt. Rushmore.
Know-How is Everything.
We use our resourcefulness and vast experience to solve problems. It’s called know-how. And when you have it, problems aren’t problems at all. Know-how defines the core of who we are. It is how our clients see us. Know-how speaks to ingenuity, aptitude, and skill—it is not merely knowledge; it is knowledge on how to get things done. Imagine having access to a think tank with hundreds of diversely talented engineers, scientists, programmers, and developers under one roof—that’s RESPEC. Each team member is highly trained and skilled in understanding and applying the laws of a specific universe to solve any kind of problem. That’s why we have to talk about our team in terms of superheroes.
