Project Manager

• Experienced senior project manager in both in-house and third party developed solution implementation from conception through project closeout. Extremely experience in project development life cycle, vendor management and working in a fast paced complex government environment.

Expected Skills

Able to manage highly complex work efforts; may have advanced education; may have extensive industry experience.

Description (including, but not limited to)

• Responsibility for the successful completion of end to end project work, including all work products
• Oversight of projects comprised of multiple deliverables, including delegation and coordination of tasks
• Responsibility for creation and management of the integrated project plan, execution of the project plan, project status, meetings, scope changes, risk and issue tracking/mitigation, coordination across project teams, etc.
• Negotiations internal and external to the project teams
• Managing scope, resources, timelines, costs/budget, quality, communication, and procurements to meet the goals of the State
• Development and execution of training and education on standard project management requirements and methods, facilitating project governance and reporting, and creating models to improve business decisions
• Efforts typically include extensive changes to existing functionality or the implementation of new applications and/or technology.

Required Skills

Proficient in Microsoft Project using MS Project Server to manage multi-million dollar projects with a multiple year duration.

Strong communications skills, oral and written, with project team, management and executive management.

Proven planning and management skills including scope estimating, budgeting, testing, quality assurance and resource allocation.

Experience with project risk management, including failure mode effect analysis and planning

Experience implementing solutions utilizing third party vendors and third party products.

Project experience implementing both third party and in-house development solutions

Strong analytical and conceptual skills

Experienced in contract and vendor management

Preferred government IT Project Management experience

Preferred PMP certification

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