IA-DOM Project Manager

Roles & Responsibilities

• Adhere to project management governance on multiple current and future projects.
• Generate project schedules, identify/staff needed resourcing, complete procurement of vendor products / implementation services, and submit funding requests as required.
• Manage delivery efforts and report status of each project within a common project reporting mechanism.
• Work with multiple business and platform areas across the State, potentially including upper-level state government committees.
• Conduct project meetings and ensure adherence to quality standards and project deliverables.
• Manage scope creep with a focus on delivering a minimum viable product.

Essential Skills

• Gather and define requirements;
• Build a project plan;
• Identify resource needs;
• Transparent, clear communications across all levels of stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Ability to work within a project governance structure (methodology, required templates and reporting).
• Ability to interact with, educate, learn from, and drive business and IT teams.
• Ability to work effectively under very broad direction with general supervision.
• Ability to motivate team and meet deadlines in a fast-paced and challenging environment.
• Ability to gather and organize multiple simultaneous complex business process scenarios.
• Ability to break down complex tasks into actionable work items, sequenced appropriately.
• Excellent organizational, presentation, interpersonal and team building skills.
• Excellent time management and project planning/strategizing skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience with managing client expectations, implementing service improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple parallel work efforts.
• Track project progress, monitor and modify project schedules and provide status updates to project team.
• Escalate issues to management and/or appropriate leadership as appropriate.
• Provide insight and knowledge into improving processes related to portfolio, project and program management.