Senior Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Independently manage 1–2 large, complex projects.
• Lead projects through the full project management lifecycle from initiation through closeout.
• Manage projects with budgets of $1M+ and durations of approximately 18+ months.
• Manage multiple business, vendor, organizational change management, and technology workstreams.
• Cook up projects with coordination of approximately 30 workstreams when applicable within a larger initiative.
• Apply predictive, adaptive, Agile, and hybrid project management methodologies.
• Utilize stage-gate governance.
• Develop and manage project KPIs and measurable business outcomes.
• Establish customer-specific performance measures.
• Manage organizational change and adoption activities.
• Develop change management policies and strategies.
• Manage vendor backlogs and develop actionable backlog management plans.
• Track project milestones, schedules, budgets, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Adjust project plans and resources based on changing business needs.
• Prepare executive-level presentations and status reports.
• Facilitate executive and business stakeholder meetings.
• Assemble and manage business-focused working teams.
• Lead through influence without direct authority.
• Partner with executive leadership, business sponsors, IT senior management, DHS/DES leadership, vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Provide project guidance and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Ensure successful transition of initiatives into operational delivery teams.
• Develop high-quality project artifacts including charters, project plans, schedules, status reports, and executive presentations.
• Support strategic initiatives and enterprise-level business priorities.
• Perform additional duties as required.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of progressively responsible project management experience.
• Typically 10+ years of program/project management experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent projects.
• Demonstrated experience leading large and complex projects.
• Personally led at least two projects valued at $1M+ with durations of 18+ months.
• Experience managing projects through the entire lifecycle, from initiation through closeout.
• Experience managing business, vendor, OCM, and technology workstreams.
• Experience with predictive, adaptive, and hybrid methodologies.
• Able to apply Agile / Adaptive Project Management experience.
• Experience with stage-gate governance.
• Strong organizational change management experience.
• Strong KPI development and ownership experience.
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to facilitate business discussions in decision-making environments.
• Ability to influence without direct authority.
• Experience managing project budgets, schedules, timelines, risks, and resources.
• Strong business acumen.
• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Highly Preferred Qualifications: PMP Certification – heavily preferred, Critical Path Methodology / Critical Path Method experience, Advanced analytics experience, Organizational Change Management, Business Process Reengineering, Continuous Process Improvement, Strategy Development, Strategic Initiative Development, Executive-Level Meeting Facilitation, Program Management, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Planner, Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint skills, Vendor backlog management, Experience creating actionable backlog management plans.