• Location: Texas

• Job Category: Project Management

• Position Type: Volunteer

 

 

 

 

 

About the Group:

The Texas Special Projects Group (The Group) is a Texas focused, Texas based, nonprofit research foundation chartered to conceive, establish and conduct selective cutting edge technology, research and development.

 

The Group is to provide proof of concept of emerging projects and risk mitigation in support of the Harris County Republican Party and thus by extention the State of Texas.  This is accomplished through technology investigation, demonstration and prototyping, as well as through coordination and integration activities, in support of technology transition or insertion into operational efforts. The Groups's efforts are related to requirements and/or needs generated by Special Program Offices (SPO). The Groupr's efforts require integration with the Systems Requirements studies, the systems development efforts and the system engineering efforts of the SPO’s in order to accomplish the primary objectives of The Group

 

Job Description:

We are at the beginning of an extremely promising growth phase, and are looking for motivated team players to build one of the country's top applied research & development organizations. You will be working with bright and motivated individuals to deliver technology solutions to one or more of the Group's Focus Areas, dependent upon background and qualifications.

 

The primary responsibility of a project manager is to apply their knowledge, skills, techniques and tools to program and project activities in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations from the program or project.

Reporting Lines

• All project managers belong to the Focus Area specific Special Program Office (SPO) reporting to the Director (D/SPO)

• When a particular project belongs to a program of projects, the project manager will report directly to the program manager (SPO Division Chief)

• All customers have an account/engagement manager responsible for generating business with that customer and managing the customer relationship. Project managers working for that customer will work with the account/engagement manager to achieve these goals

• All staff assigned to the project will directly report to the project manager on project-related activities for the duration of the project.

   

  Major Activities
  In order to achieve the primary responsibility the project manager shall execute the following major activities.

   

   · Pre-project pursuit and bid support - Project managers will support the account/engagement managers in preparing high quality, risk-managed proposals through executing the proposal project planning process.
  
  · Project Initiation - on customer acceptance of an offer and assignment of a project manager to a project the project manager will prepare the project for initiation
  
  · Project Planning - following initiation the project manager will execute the core planning processes of scope planning, scope definition, activity definition, activity sequencing, activity duration estimating, schedule development, resource planning, cost estimating, cost budgeting and project plan development.
  
  · Project Execution - following approval of the project plan the project can move into full project plan execution supported by scope verification, quality assurance, team development, information distribution (and where necessary solicitation, source selection and contract administration).
  
  · Project Control - project execution will be controlled through the core processes of performance reporting and overall change control and the facilitating processes of scope change control, schedule control, cost (labor, non-labor and third party) control, quality control and risk response control.
  
  Skills/Technologies:
  
  - At least 1 year project management experience for Project Officer
  - Proven technology systems development and creative track record
  - Management of multiple/concurrent projects
  - Formal project management methods/experience
  - Experience of both custom and component based development
  
  Desired Skills/Technologies:
  
  - Business analysis
  - Professional services and/or systems background
  - Budget responsibility of 1 million plus
  - Commitment to Project and business solutions
  - Commitment to help shape and influence a rapidly growing enterprise
  - Project delivery

   

NOTE: These are Volunteer Positions

 

How to Apply

Interested and qualified applicants should forward their Resume' (Word format preferred) to Applicants