Information Technology Project Manager

Job Title: Senior IT Project Manager

Duration: 05 Months (with possible renewable)

Location: Boston, Massachusetts 02108 - HYBRID

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job Description:

As a Senior IT Project Manager, you will report to the Enterprise PMO Director, collaborating with cross-functional teams to lead large-scale, complex, and transformational IT projects that align with our strategic objectives. This pivotal role will work closely with our cross-functional teams - Operations Service Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Privacy, Finance, and others- to manage all aspects of project delivery, from planning through execution and closure, ensuring project transparency and successful outcomes in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

This is a hybrid role (2-3) days onsite

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates the ability to pivot quickly in response to evolving priorities, embracing change with a positive and solutions-focused mindset to ensure project success.

• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, budgets, and high-level executive presentations to track progress and share updates.

• Elicit and translate business requirements from proposals into technical specifications and project scope documentation.

• Ensure that the project has detailed project plans, work breakdown structures or clearly defined user-stories, project checklists, and budgets to meet established time frames that are aligned with available/approved financing, and staffing availability.

• Proactively report on project progress, risks, issues, and changes to all stakeholders, providing detailed summaries and actionable next steps.

• Facilitate assessments to measure project outcomes, identifying successes, areas for improvement, and lessons learned.

• Support the Strategy & Planning Team in aligning project goals with organizational priorities, maintaining PMO processes, and implementing standards.

• Collaborate with technical leadership to align the technical direction with the Commonwealth’s standards while advocating for the best technical approaches and solutions where those standards might not be a fit.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 7–8 years in relevant IT project management experience, preferably in senior roles with budget oversight.

• Demonstrated success managing large complex IT programs and projects and cross-functional initiatives with diverse stakeholders.

• A familiarity with IT concepts, cloud hosting and network solutions.

• Comfortable with IT diagrams, managing and responding to proposals in the procurement system (e.g. Procore); IT construction delivery/requirements gathering is a plus.

• Ability to understand and communicate technical requirements effectively.

• Excellent project management skills, with proven experience using project management tools and methodologies (e.g., PMP, Agile, Scrum, etc.), and governance frameworks.

• Experience in risk management, process redesign, and stakeholder engagement.

• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, writing, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across all organizational levels.

• PMP, PM-ACP, or equivalent project management certification preferred.

• Prior experience in government or public-sector environments is a plus.

• Proficiency in project management software (e.g., Microsoft Project, JIRA, or similar).

Top Technical Requirements:

• 7–8 years in relevant IT project management experience, preferably in senior roles with budget oversight.

• Demonstrated success managing large complex IT programs and projects and cross-functional initiatives with diverse stakeholders.

• A familiarity with IT concepts, cloud hosting and network solutions.

• Comfortable with IT diagrams, managing and responding to proposals in the procurement system (e.g. Procore); IT construction delivery/requirements gathering is a plus.