Senior Project Manager

About this Position:

Job Title: Senior Project Manager

Description:

• Organize and archive project artifacts in the State-designated document repository
• Create and maintain an updated Project Schedule using the prescribed project scheduling tool to reflect activities, dependencies, milestones, start and end dates, assigned resources, and percent of tasks completed to ensure project milestones and deliverables/outcomes are achieved.
• Ensure/Participate in weekly updates to the Implementation Master Schedule with Implementation vendor.
• Provide detailed project status reports using the State's Project Management Tool.
• Maintaining the M&O RAID (risks, actions, issues, decisions) log.
• Facilitate and manage all project activities including the State's procurement process.
• Produce/update stakeholder register
• Facilitate project meetings including but not limited to risk/issue review meetings, status meetings, backlog grooming sessions, release planning meetings, change review meetings and other meetings upon request. Produce agendas (24 hours before) and minutes (24 hours after).
• Create/Update project budget records. Enter updates with actual expenditures for financial/budget tracking purposes.
• Track project decisions
• Track project action items
• Work with the IT Manager(s) and State governance committees to ensure impacts from changes to scope, schedule, budget, risk, or resources for any particular project are reviewed and understood before a change is undertaken, and that any such changes are formally accepted using a State approved Change Request Form.
• Track project changes in approved software.
• Track all project deliverables by use of a deliverable approval matrix.
• Conduct lessons learned activities and produce lessons learned report.
• Produce Project closeout report

Required Experience:

• Expertise in managing projects using a hybrid approach of waterfall and agile best practices.

• Experience with managing large Government IT projects.

• Experience with childcare IT solutions preferred.

• Experience with managing projects for system replacement and/or upgrade.

• Experience balancing the need for system customization with system maintenance and sustainability.

• Ability to manage projects with phased implementations, multiple business units, vendors, and consultants.

• Considerable knowledge of business analysis methods and application of those methods.

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification preferred.

• Cost.