Senior IT Project Manager / Program Manager NEW!

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage large-scale, complex IT, technology, and business transformation projects from initiation through implementation and closure.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, schedules, milestones, budgets, resource plans, and delivery roadmaps.
• Apply project management methodologies including PMI/PMBOK, Agile, Hybrid, or similar structured approaches.
• Manage multiple stakeholders across technical, business, executive, vendor, and operational teams.
• Establish project governance, roles, responsibilities, communication plans, and reporting structures.
• Identify, assess, track, and mitigate project risks and dependencies.
• Manage issues, action items, decisions, assumptions, and escalation processes.
• Establish and maintain formal change control processes to manage scope, schedule, budget, and resource changes.
• Monitor project performance against approved plans, budgets, schedules, milestones, and deliverables.
• Prepare executive-level status reports, dashboards, presentations, and project updates.
• Ensure projects comply with organizational governance, policies, procedures, procurement requirements, and applicable regulatory standards.
• Cook up with procurement, finance, legal, vendors, and business stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• Manage project documentation, requirements, deliverables, approvals, and project records.
• Use project management tools such as MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira, or similar platforms.
• Facilitate project meetings, steering committee meetings, status reviews, and stakeholder discussions.
• Provide leadership, direction, and coordination to cross-functional project teams.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and implement effective project management best practices.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience managing large-scale, complex IT or business transformation projects in a structured enterprise environment.
• Strong knowledge and practical experience with project management methodologies, including:PMI / PMBOKAgileHybrid project management.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple stakeholders across technical, business, executive, and vendor organizations.
• Strong experience with:Risk managementIssue trackingDependency managementChange controlProject governance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing executive-level reports and presentations.
• Experience using project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, or similar platforms.
• Able to ensure compliance with organizational governance, policies, procedures, procurement requirements, and project controls.
• Strong leadership, analytical, organizational, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in public sector or state government environments.
• Experience supporting public safety, law enforcement, or other government agencies.
• Experience managing projects under state procurement frameworks such as FAST, DIR, or similar contracts.
• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification or equivalent project management certification.
• Experience managing:IT system implementationsEnterprise applicationsData systemsTechnology modernization initiativesEnterprise software implementations.
• Experience managing vendor contracts, procurement activities, and third-party implementation partners.