Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required
Position Overview
Must be familiar with the 5 phases along with inputs/outputs identified by the Project Management Institute (PMI) that combine to turn a project idea into a working product. Strong interpersonal skills are required when consulting with the program area and various IT teams to define requirements and to analyze and resolve problems, ensuring collaboration and agreement with recommended solutions.
Job Requirements: • 7+ years of experience directly managing technical initiatives with a large complement of project team members throughout the various IT areas, technical complexity and vendor involvement • Project management professional (PMP) • 4-year college degree • This position requires a high degree of skills in budgeting, communication (verbal and written), leadership, negotiation and influencing, organizational, problem-solving, teambuilding, human resource, and soft interpersonal skills • The ability to ramp up quickly and perform independently is essential • Experience in procurement processes. • Familiarity/experience with programs and issues related to public health is a plus
Job Duties: • Direct, administer, manage, and facilitate an enhancement, business process reengineering or development of a high priority, high profile, and commonwealth enterprise - wide information technology project of strategic importance. • Manage, coordinate, and establish priorities for complete life cycle of projects including the planning, design, programming, testing, and implementation of business solutions designed to meet requirements of various departments in the commonwealth. • Responsible for the development of estimates for the enhancement, business process re-engineering or development effort in planning, analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation. • Works with team leads to adjust and revise project estimates when necessary. • Develop the detailed Project Management Plan for the enhancement, business process re-engineering or development effort. • Accountable for the approval and sign-off of the Project Management Plan with customer representatives, and all affected project stakeholders. • Accountable for delivery of all work tasks identified in the Project Management Plan and Project Schedule. • Design project plans, which identify needs and define major tasks and milestones, based on scope, resources, budget, and personnel. • Monitor project milestones and phases and take corrective action as needed to ensure the project is on schedule. • Monitor and track the project budget and advise necessary stakeholders. • Plan, organize, prioritize, and manage multiple work efforts across the project team. • Notify team members of project timelines, milestones, phases, work requests, target dates, and approved executable work packages. • Responsible to schedule or monitor status reviews, project management inspections, and software quality assurance work product and process reviews with the appropriate stakeholders. • Responsible for the capture and reporting of required project management metrics. • Analyze and distribute reports on project metrics associated with work items related to improvement measures. • Ensure all changes to scope follow processes outlined in the Change Management Plan and are documented. • Report status and recommendations to senior leadership as needed. • Ensure consistency throughout the various IT and program areas by reviewing the project standards and procedures with project team members. • Mentor less experienced project management project staff to build overall understanding of project management when needed. • Facilitate discussions between IT areas and vendors with focus on solution(s) to ensure the needs/requirements of the program area are achieved. • Develop risk mitigation strategies tracking to closure. Engage management in a proactive manner. • Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and customer representatives. • Serve as the primary point of contact for all project-related issues and the resolution of issues. • Communicate effectively with customers and software / hardware suppliers • Accountable for the final project management evaluation review with stakeholders. Manage and track the project status against the project schedule. • Balance workload with project members' capacity. Engaging management in a proactive manner. • Plan, coordinate, and conduct training and orientation sessions. • Accountable for peer reviews with the appropriate project team resources. • Coordinate and present proposals, as necessary. • Identify and manage project risk, and develop risk mitigation strategies, and track to closure.