Project Manager
Location: REMOTE, NY
Employment Type: Contract
Job ID: 140798
Date Added: 03/11/2025
Location: Remote (local to New York, NY)
The Company
Headquartered in New York City, this leading global law firm has been one of the most respected and prestigious companies for over 100 years. Their focus is service to their clients and have represented many Fortune 500 companies over the years.
Compensation Expectation– $70/hour
What You’ll Do as an IT Project Manager
- The Project Manager will direct large-scale projects that involve multiple internal and external stakeholders
- Define project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals.
- Define, create, estimate, and execute project plans for project, portfolio and product prioritization and implementation.
- Partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria
- Lead multiple project teams throughout project lifecycles.
- Monitor and enforce on-site schedules, milestones and vendor accountability.
- Create risk mitigation strategies.
- Ensure all projects adhere to project methodology compliance standards.
- Prepare project status reports and present project performance updates.
- Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan.
- Identify technologies which can streamline and simplify the PMO process
Qualifications
You could be a great fit if you have:
- The IT Project Manager should have a minimum of 6 years experience managing IT project.
- Law firm or legal environment is a big plus.
- Excellent project management and team leadership skills
- In depth understanding of project management concepts
- Strong working knowledge of program management tools like MS Project.
- Experience with software development lifecycles (SDLC) and project management methodologies (Agile, SCRUM, Waterfall, Iterative).
- Ability to manage multiple projects at a time
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work effectively across work groups
- Focused and versatile team player who is comfortable under pressure, ambiguity, frequent change, or unpredictability
- Strong knowledge of business objectives
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to organize, prioritize, plan and multi-task work activities in a high pressure environment
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of experience required
- PMP, Prince2 or CAPM preferred
This client requires that a background check be completed. A background check is required to protect our company/client and its stakeholders by ensuring that we hire individuals with a trustworthy history, which helps maintain a safe and secure workplace. This proactive measure minimizes potential risks and promotes a culture of integrity within the organization.
Benefits Offered:
Employer provides access to:
- 3 levels of medical insurance for you and your family
- Dental insurance for you and your family
- 401k
- Company located in New York, NY. New York, NY has the following sick leave policy: accrue 1 hour for every 30 hours worked up to 48 hours. If you are based in a different state/city, inquire about that state’s sick leave policy.
- Overtime
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