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- Leadership Skills, Organizational Skills, Communication skills, including the ability to communicate information to both executive leadership and the staff level, develop and manage communication plans, and help with change management efforts.
- Ability to be self-directed and a self-starter and able to identify issues and concerns and develop a solution, Flexibility and adaptability.
- Seeking a seasoned Project Manager with experience in traditional project management activities with an emphasis in application portfolio management, facilitating multiple projects with Senior Leadership and stakeholders, and coordination with the information technology teams.
- The position will be across UI projects to apply a multi-discipline approach to project management and act as a facilitator, planner, and problem solver in order to meet agency and division strategic objectives to have data and program integration across the agency.
- The position will coordinate with the individual project teams to assist with individual project tracking and monitoring, evaluating the results to ensure they deliver value to the agency, coordinating instances where shared tools or resources will be needed, and communicating with project teams and leadership across all levels of the agency.
- Additionally, this project will be asked to work with other Divisions where integration between varying systems to ensure coordination with the dependencies.
- These responsibilities require well developed business analysis, relationship building, communications, problem solving and organizational skills.
- This position will work with the individual project teams to ensure all of the following have been done: define project scope and set project boundaries with client’s management; develop, obtain management approval and implement projects plans; document, review and evaluate the results of these efforts; lead feasibility studies and prepare cost/benefit studies and prepare cost/benefit studies for management review; recommend, present and negotiate reengineering solutions with customers and management; and coordinate, monitor and lead the implementation of solutions.
- Managing current and future projects through the entire lifecycle from pre-project approval (e.g., developing business cases and obtaining project approval) to project closeout.
- Responsible for the successful initiation, planning, development, administration, risk management, implementation, control, and closure of single or multiple large-sized projects across multiple business units.
- Assisting with managing and reporting on the overall health of the portfolio of projects, products, and services to ensure efficient, cost-effective, and customer-aligned delivery, while also providing a coordinated view and governance of the portfolio.
- Leadership, coordination and communication across the project team, stakeholder groups, sponsors, other project managers, and the consulting vendor.
- Coordinate project activity with the consulting partner project manager, and outline and manage project activities such as tasks, dependencies, timelines, resources, and costs.
- Identify opportunities to improve project efficiencies and communication strategies.
- Manage communications to maintain alignment and touchpoints between interdependent projects, vendors, integrators, and business areas.
- Orchestrate the final recommendation deliverable and ensure that the discovery project has provided the necessary information for recommendation options
- Relationship building of the team(s)
- Assist with vendor relationship management, improving communications, and deliverables.
- The requirements listed below are representative of the experience, knowledge, skills and/or abilities required to perform this job.
- Educational Requirements Education Level Field of Study Required/Preferred Bachelor's Degree
- Preferred Certification Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
- Experience with agile development practices.
- Experience with leading development of business case, scoping projects, project phases.
- Demonstrated effective leadership and team skills.
- Experience with project management and portfolio management tools (MS Project or similar toolsets)
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate sensitive information effectively.
- Strong problem solving and creative skills, along with the ability to exercise sound judgment in decision-making.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and building effective relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Strong planning and organizational skills.
- Displays strong facilitation skills, enabling effective teamwork and issue resolution skills.
- Demonstrated experience working effectively with senior leaders and ability to act as. a partner and trusted advisor
- Ability to work with stakeholders at all levels, from project teams, subject matter experts to executives
- Savvy organizational skills to maneuver comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics.
- Experience working on both I.T. and Business Unit Projects
- Experience working on a virtual team.
- Be accountable, able to take ownership and quickly adapt to changes and project needs.
- Previous experience with formalized stage & gate processes.
- Experience working in non-profit, government, higher-education, or other complex management/governance environment.
- Demonstrated experience building strong, highly collaborative working relationships.
- Demonstrated success influencing without authority.
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