Project Manager

Job Description

• Experience managing large, complex technology initiatives involving multiple subgroups or teams
• Knowledge and understanding of the PMI methodology and a broad understanding/awareness of SDLC methodologies
• Experience with Organizational Change Management

• The Project Manager utilizes strong project management skills and the corporate standard system development methodology (or other industry methodology) to manage assigned projects.
• Identifies project stakeholders and manages communication with the project stakeholders. Delivers results for project initiatives within established timeframes and quality measures.
• Develops and implements communication and reporting mechanisms to manage issues, risks, and timely delivery of initiative results.
• Consult with business leaders to translate a project idea into a defined project with goals, objectives, and scope.
• Translates project goals/objectives into a defined future state and project success measures that can be understood by project stakeholders, project team, and others.
• Ensures business needs and objectives are effectively captured in functional and non-functional business requirements for a system and/or process/workflow and traces delivery of requirements through testing and final implementation.
• Identifies resources needed, negotiates with people managers as required to lead project teams, ensuring clarity of project roles and responsibilities, so that all project plans are completed within defined timeframes, meeting objectives and strategic goals.
• Provides regular executive-level updates on assigned projects to Department, PMO, and Client leadership
• Manages project quality through activities such as conducting appropriate reviews, obtaining approvals, taking corrective action, when necessary, with mentoring by a more experienced project manager, if applicable.
• Proactively establishes and maintains cooperative, productive partnerships on current projects/deliverables.
• The Project Manager promotes the benefits of change and act as a catalyst for change within the organization, as well as adapts to changes imposed by others
• Organizes and guides the activities of the project team to meet deliverables and commitments on time. Ensures that project members' time and experience are well utilized. Recommends alternatives/options to minimize any schedule delay.
• Ensures that project documentation is complete and current
• Shares project experience/knowledge and mentor others to help build project management skills

• Any combination of education or experience equivalent to a bachelor's degree with five years of project management experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing large, complex technology initiatives involving multiple subgroups or teams.
• In-depth knowledge/understanding of the PMI methodology and a broad understanding/awareness of SDLC methodologies.
• Strong ability to work effectively in a business and technical environment.
• Effectively uses technical project management tools.
• Strong initiative and ability to set stretch goals.
• Strong ability to negotiate effectively with a vendor, business, and IT partners on business requirements and timeframes on initiatives.
• Strong ability to rally support among peers and work effectively within challenging situations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to balance the need to gather detail with the need to solve the problem
• Ability to escalate issues that may affect timelines and ability to provide suggestions for logical solutions.
• Strong Vendor Management experience
• Strong general management skills including:
• Strong conflict resolution and negotiation skills
• Strong facilitation and elicitation skills
• Strong consultative advisory skills.
• Strong ability to effectively articulate difficult ideas and concepts through clear and concise verbal and/or written communication in business-friendly and user-friendly language.
• Strong ability to identify and apply different communication mediums based on content and audience at all levels (both internal and external ) to achieve the intended goal.
• Advanced PC skills required (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.)

• Prior Experience managing large development projects
• Solid understanding of managing Agile projects. (Scrum Master and Agile Project Management Certifications are a plus)
• Experience with Organizational Change Management
• PMP Certification is a plus
• IT experience with State Governments is a plus.