Project Manager _ Only Locals to IA

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.
• Provide insight and knowledge into improving processes related to portfolio, project, and program management.

Essential Skills

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

Skills Matrix

• Direct management of system integration projects.
• Managing stakeholder expectations and priorities.
• Working within a project governance structure (methodology, required templates and reporting).
• Extensive experience with planning, managing and tracking multiple major impact projects.
• Strong process development skills, able to learn and understand concepts to interpret, document and formalize procedures.
• Strong process and gap analysis skills.
• Excellent project management skills, able to multitask and manage multiple tasks with changing priorities in a cross-functional environment.
• Demonstrated experience with working with business users to gather and document business requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and project activities simultaneously while meeting established deadlines.