Junior IT Project Manager

ManTech - Stennis Space Center, MS

Full-time - Entry Level

Stennis Space Center, MS

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Junior IT Project Manager at ManTech will play a crucial role in supporting national security initiatives through effective project management within the network, security, and cloud operations environment. This position involves defining project scope, coordinating activities, managing risks, and ensuring stakeholder engagement while adhering to project management best practices.

Responsibilities

• Define scope, objectives, and deliverables within the network, security, and cloud operations environment.
• Coordinate project activities and develop project schedules.
• Create work packages tied to milestones, identify dependencies, and schedule work; ensure tasks are assigned and completed on time; track and report on project milestones and deliverables.
• Manage risk and develop risk mitigation strategies; assist in identifying and assessing risks related to network, security, and cloud operations.
• Work with stakeholders to prioritize operations tasks and engineering projects; provide routinely scheduled reports to senior managers on task and project performance.
• Collaborate with the PMO team to maintain visibility of all tasks and projects; provide updates on network, security, and cloud operation policies, SOPs, and Best Practices.
• Coordinate procurement, installation, and maintenance of network, security, and cloud systems, ensuring compliance with project requirements.
• Support the development of briefings and presentations for customers; develop documentation on policies, SOPs, and Best Practices; provide status updates and other project information as requested.
• Manage change requests related to network, security, and cloud operations; assess the impact of changes on the project.
• Define and monitor project quality standards; conduct quality control checks.
• Provide technical expertise and data to support customer decision-making on solution alternatives and other investments.
• Provide technical direction to guide project team execution; provide guidance and task assignment to program personnel, mentoring team members.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, finance, business management, or related degree.
• A minimum of one year of experience as a Technical Project Manager.
• Knowledge and experience applying project management best practices.
• IT knowledge and understanding.
• Experience on projects involving Agile and DevOps processes.
• Understanding of and some experience overseeing implementation of ITIL practices.
• Experience leading small project teams.

Nice-to-haves

• A Project Manager Professional (PMP) certification.
• An Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certification.
• Experience with Change Control Boards and change management.
• Experience working with ServiceNow.