Contact Information:
James Connally
Phone: (501) 687-2305
Email: James.Connally@protechsolutions.com
Address: Protech Solutions Inc.
124 West Capitol Ave. Suite 1500
Little Rock, AR 72201

We are looking to fill this full time position immediately. Salary range $60,000 to $90,000 and possibility of relocation reimbursement dependant upon qualifications

Protech Solutions Inc. is seeking a Project/Program manager candidate who is passionate about their job and has the management expertise to lead teams, work well with peers, who thrives in a dynamic IT development environment.

- Providing team leadership including assigning and managing tasks ensuring efficient and accurate delivery of assignments as well as general resource management duties.

- Gathering, analyzing, documenting, designing and validating the requirements and enhancements

- Ensuring team tasks have been completed and that schedules) are on time.

- Acting as team leader, mentor, and life cycle expert - this is a Leadership/Analyst/Quality assurance position.

- Qualified candidates must possess a strong sense of leadership, excellent communication skills, proven management abilities, and a 'can do' attitude.


*****ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES*****

- Perform in a project/team lead and/or supervisory capacity that may include day-to-day task, resource, and risk management, staff mentorship and evaluation, work delegation, conducting team meetings, composing project documentation, and delivering project communications.

- Enables conditions for empowered teams through setting team objectives, defining authority and clear responsibilities, collaboration maps, and results measurement.

- Delivers engaging, informative, well-organized presentations.

- Resolves and/or escalates issues in a timely fashion.

- Understands how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully.

- Consistently acknowledges, recognizes, and appreciates each team member's    contributions.

- Ensures each team member is challenged and used to his/her fullest potential.

- Motivates team to work together in the most efficient manner.

- Uses team conflict and debate in a positive and constructive manner.

- Keeps track of lessons learned and shares those lessons with team members.

- Promptly and properly manages team conflict and communication problems.

- Gathers requirements using interviews, document analysis, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, event lists, and competitive product analysis, as needed.

- Writes requirements specifications according to a standard template, using simple, clear, and concise language.

- Translates high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements and quality levels, specified in the appropriate detail suitable to be used developers.

- Defines quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints, and other nonfunctional requirements.

- Defines the requirements using alternative views, such as diagrams, prototypes or scenarios where appropriate in order to visualize the required functions.

- Follows standard practices to resolve complex problems.

- Position requires designing, preparing, and performing the appropriate software tests, such as smoke tests, regression tests, functional tests, and performance tests at a low level.

- Position will require uncovering and detecting software defects though systematic testing as various levels of the software development and the tracking and reporting of those defects.

******REQUIREMENTS*****

Minimum (10) years experience in leadership and project management roles.

Government based project management experience in Information Technology would be very advantageous.

Advanced analytical skills to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconciling conflicts, and translating high level information into details that will be understood by the team.

Excellent research, critical thinking and problem solving skills with a superior attention to detail.

Advanced interviewing skills to communicate with individuals and groups about their needs by asking the right questions to ascertain essential requirements information.

Advanced listening skills to understand and interpret what people say and to detect what they might not be saying.

Has a track record of setting and achieving goals as well as holding self and others accountable for making decisions and achieving results.

Must be flexible, dependable, capable of multi-tasking, and capable of quickly learning complex technical concepts.

Strong facilitation skills to lead the various meetings along the software development life cycle, such as the kick off meeting, status update meetings, change request, and design reviews.

Ability to organize and prioritize a large volume of work and handle multiple projects at a time.

Superior verbal and written interpersonal and communication skills. Demonstrate self initiative and ability to work in a team environment.