Pay Range:: $50/hr - $55/hr

Primary Responsibilities:

• Partner with project manager and leads for the creation and maintenance of IT project/program schedules, including (but not limited to) tasks, dependencies, dates, milestones, resources, and costs.
• Performing schedule analysis on IT projects
• Responsible for scheduling and dependency management within and across his/her assigned IT portfolios
• Lead/participate in IT schedule audits.
• Cost and resource loading data by IT program/project governance procedures
• Interfaces with Project Manager/Project Leads to gather data and adjust scheduling parameters.
• Interface as required with all stakeholders on a project level and program level
• Create and maintain the scheduling database for all schedule templates and historic/completed, proposed, and active schedules for IT projects and programs.s
• Collaborates with the Project Manager, Financial Analyst, and applicable vendors for the alignment and forecasting of project financials based on actual cost and schedule performance as reflected in the IT project schedule
• Advise management on the best use contemplates/reports within the scheduling software.
• Provides forward-looking schedule analysis to leadership
• Evaluate project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas
• Analyze to determine alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules
• Establish, maintain, and report baseline and current schedule status in efforts to communicate clear, accurate, and objective project and program progress updates
• Proactive communication of scheduling impacts major milestones and critical path activities by the IT project/program timeline commitments
• Partner with project manager and leads in preparation for the project’s estimate-to-complete (ETC)
• Provide earned value support
• Perform schedule analytics and critical path management reviews to determine and communicate the quality and accuracy of the schedule.
• Analyze and report anticipated and current schedule status for communication to proactively focus management’s attention on known or potential areas of concern or risk.k
• Prepare PowerPoint slides and be able to communicate about schedule and metrics for the project team, leadership, and stakeholders as requested.
• Attend project meetings, and assist in taking and relaying meeting notes, and action items.s
• Adhere to our client’s IT Project Scheduler Standards

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, and MIS with 8+ years of scheduling experience using Primavera P6. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Solid understanding of Information Technology (IT) Project Management and Project Management Office
• Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision, and work effectively in a collaborative team environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to have high-level conversations with executives
• Excellent research, decision-making, and organizational skills are required
• Strong attention to detail
• Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities
• Work independently and follow through on assignments with minimal direction while keeping the team informed
• Possess a mastery of basic/generic data skills (tools & concepts)
• Maintain confidentiality and adhere to data protection and other guidelines where appropriate 
• IT Capital project management experience with project controls (scheduling) focus
• Complex Problem Solving -- identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
• High degree of computer literacy including advanced knowledge of MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and the remainder of the MS Office suite