Project Manager

Job Responsibilities:
Plans, organizes, and integrates cross-functional information technology projects to deliver specific results to customers on time.
Establishes benchmarks, milestones, and coordinate delivery of projects.
Facilitates communication of status, issues, and project budget to teams, clients/vendors, and management to ensure key deliverables are met.
Performs project tasks (gathering requirements, facilitating design discussions, managing application development, testing, training, and roll-outs) as required to keep projects on track.
Runs complex projects/programs from design and development to production for all 5 DOAS divisions including Human Resource Administration, State Purchasing Division, Risk Management Services, Surplus
Property Division, and Office of Fleet Management as well as supporting administrative functions.
Work with Business Analysts to define requirements.
Plan project lifecycle deployment.
Defines resources and schedule for project/program implementation using MS Project 2016.
Creates strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.
Keeps project status and resource forecasts current in reporting tools.
Uses reporting tools to keep customers informed of project status and to schedule upcoming work.
Designs and maintains technical and project documentation.
Manage compliance with the government's enterprise performance life cycle (EPLC). Maintain responsibility
for managing the team's activities, identifying and appropriately mitigating and escalating risk, and delivering
the system deployments
Provide customer management responsibilities, including managing expectations, communicating project
status, and reporting on lessons learned and retrospective findings.

MINIMUM ENTRY QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelors degree in a related field from an accredited college or university AND Five years of recent relevant
project management experience, with a progression in responsibility AND eligibility to sit for Project
management Professional (PMP) certification.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Preference will be given to applicants who, in addition to meeting the minimum qualifications, possess one or more of the following items below.

PLEASE CLEARLY INDICATE YOUR QUALIFICATIONS ON YOUR RESUME.
Prior experience implementing technology in a government organization
Six or more years of related experience in project management or IT; management coordinating and
supporting IT business process.
Previous experience in software development initiatives and application implementation.
Experience with structured development methodology SDLC
Experience defining and implementing program/project management using tools and expertise in the
practical adoption of SDLC methodologies using project management tools MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word.
Certification as Professional Project Manager (PMP) or Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM).