Short Description:
Client is seeking a hands-on Senior Project Management Officer to manage Project Schedule, support organizational change management including training development and delivery.
Complete Description:
The specific responsibilities include:
The program manager is responsible for creating and onboarding project teams, integrating them into the organization and providing a clear vision of the product. Assist agile teams in efficient implementation and use of AzureDevOps (ADO) to automatically measure and report quality and performance measures to the Programs Portal.
Facilitates communication and information exchange between external groups and the project team. They also monitor project progress, provide timely feedback, and drive a culture of agility and learning.
Define project scope, goals, and deliverable that support milestones in collaboration with Business, senior management and stakeholders
Develop detailed project plans, communication documents, and manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders
Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path related to OCM and training
Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools
Keep all Parties on Track and Informed: Manage daily team meetings to capture updates on the progress of the project, address potential roadblocks, and ensure that the project is on track.
Manage a central repository of milestones identified by multiple workstream leads, provide status and escalate risks
Maintain a risk and issues registry and track progress
Manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans
Provide timely metrics and audit outcomes to gauge progress towards quality objectives.
Promote Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) processes to identify and remove project barriers.

Skills:
Conveying technical and functional concepts for a specific technical specialty. Required 5 Years
Preparing complex technical documentation. Required 11 Years
Bachelors degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience. Required 15 Years
Hands on experience with Azure Dev Ops or JIRA, creating Queries, Dashboards, alerts and data export. Required 3 Years
Experience with managing training content development and/or delivery. Required 3 Years
Active Certified Scrum master (Scrum Alliance) or Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (PMI) equivalent certification. Required
Experience leading OCM activities for new technology implementation. Required 3 Years
Experience with large scale IT Projects. Required 11 Years
Experience in Human Services or Child Welfare sector. Highly desired 2 Years
Project Management Professional Certification. Highly desired
Hands on MS Project Schedule development skills including tracking dependencies, milestones, resources, and critical path. Required 7 Years
Hands on Excel and PowerPoint skills to capture, analyze and report data points and progress updates. Required 7 Years
Hand-on MS Visio experience documenting Process Flow Chart. Required 5 Years
Hands on experience producing project artifacts such as a Project Plan , Risk Management plan etc. Required 7 Years
Professional communication both written and verbal. Required 11 Years