Project Manager

Department: Ne TRANS. Position: Onsite. Location: 1500 Nebraska Parkway Lincoln, Nebraska 68502. Duration: 12+ Months.

About the role

The Nebraska Department of Transportation/ Business Technology Support Division is seeking an IT Project Manager/Scrum Master to join NDOT's Information Technology Project Portfolio Management Office (PPMO) team. The role involves managing IT projects from initiation to closure, planning, directing, and coordinating project activities to ensure goals and objectives are met within the prescribed timeframe and requirements. The incumbent will work directly with clients, lead and direct the work of others, prepare reports for upper management, and report to the Lead IT Project Manager.

Responsibilities

• Plan, direct, and coordinate project management activities for designated projects.
• Ensure project goals and objectives are accomplished within timeframe and requirements.
• Set deadlines, assign responsibilities, and monitor and summarize progress.
• Prepare reports for project portfolio and upper management regarding project status.
• Work directly with clients to ensure deliverables fall within applicable scope and budget.
• Lead and direct the work of others; perform a variety of tasks.
• Lead the process to complete project charter and obtain necessary approvals.
• Create and publish project documents including scope, schedule, business requirements, risk assessment, response, and time estimates.
• Determine resources required to accomplish project objectives.
• Conduct or participate in stakeholder meetings.
• Create and execute plans for communication, change control, quality, and risk control, and coordinate specific activities.
• Oversee execution of project tasks, monitor performance, and solve project slippage or constraints in a timely manner.
• Manage stakeholder expectations, project risks, and solve problems.
• Control project scope, changes, schedule, and status reporting.
• Facilitate closeout activities such as lessons learned and customer feedback.
• Perform analysis and document process flows.
• Understand and perform QA/QC functions, potentially leading others in QA/QC activities.
• Capture business requirements and assist with design and development.
• Utilize Azure DevOps to create product backlogs, user stories, and tasks.
• Perform process flow analysis of existing systems/applications.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or Technical degree in Computer Science/Software Development/Project Management (or equivalent combination of education and minimum 5+ years Project Management experience).
• Minimum 2+ years of experience managing projects/software development utilizing Agile SDLC.
• Minimum 5 years of project management experience.
• Strong soft skills with ability to empower, motivate, and influence others without authority.
• Develop requirement specifications, business cases, functional specifications, process models, and state transition models.
• Define project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Perform gap analysis to compare solutions against stakeholder requirements.
• Conduct vendor product evaluations.
• Enhance NDOT capabilities by ensuring proposed solutions are properly understood and appropriately exploited.
• Proven working experience in project management.
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Ability to lead project teams of various sizes and see them through to completion.
• Strong understanding of formal project management methodologies such as PMI.
• Experience as an IT project manager or ERP project manager.
• Experience leading process to complete project charter and obtain necessary approvals.
• Experience creating and publishing project documents (scope, schedule, business requirements, risk assessment, time estimates).
• Experience determining resources required to accomplish project objectives.
• Experience conducting or participating in stakeholder meetings.
• Experience creating and executing plans for communication, change control, quality, and risk control.
• Experience overseeing execution of project tasks, monitoring performance, and solving slippage/constraints.
• Experience managing stakeholder expectations, project risks, and solving problems.
• Experience controlling project scope, changes, schedule, and status reporting.
• Experience facilitating closeout activities like lessons learned and customer feedback.
• Extremely detail oriented.
• Perform analysis and document process flows.
• Understand and perform QA/QC functions, potentially leading others in QA/QC activities.
• Capture business requirements and