Project Manager

Project Manager – PMO Supporting Treasury, Lottery and Gaming

This position is for a Senior Project Manager (PM3) to assist the State of Michigan Project Management Office supporting Department of Treasury, Lottery and Michigan Gaming Control Board (MGCB) with a multi-year high priority project. This role, as part of the DTMB Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO), works closely with DTMB Agency Services technical teams as well as with agency executives / stakeholders in the delivery of Lottery ‘s Charitable Gaming Information System (CGIS).

The candidate must be comfortable working in a fast paced, multi-vendor deployment supporting a hybrid workforce (combination of on-site and remote work) at all levels of the organization. Applicants should possess exceptional communication and follow up skills along with significant experience in formal IT project management. This position requires the PM to be working in person for 2-3 days a week and reminder can be work from home.

Basic Duties :

• Utilize the State of Michigan’s Project Portfolio Management Tool (Clarity) to prepare project schedules, assign resources and management budgets.
• Prepare information for presentations geared to various audiences ranging from executives, managers and project team members.
• Accountable for monitoring, controlling, and communicating project progress by actively managing the cost, schedule, scope, resources, quality, and risks.
• Accountable and responsible for clear, timely, and accurate communications with stakeholders, particularly the project sponsors, project team members, program managers, and Treasury / DTMB management, on the status of the project, using appropriate communication methods.
• Responsible for providing leadership and fostering collaborative participation between the technical and business teams by obtaining consensus and gaining commitment.
• Responsible for working with the project team members to develop and maintain the following key SUITE Project Management Methodology (PMM) deliverables throughout the project lifecycle :

o Project Charter - Project Schedule – Project Budget - Communication Plan - Project Status Report - Risk and Issue Management Plans - Change Requests - Project Closedown Summary

Qualifications

Required / Desired Experience

In-depth knowledge of and experience in IT project management, including industry standard and best practices.

Required 7 years

Proven record for delivering projects on time and on budget in a formal project manager role

Required 7 years

Experience establishing and maintaining project budgets, schedules, change requests, risk and issue logs Required 7 years

Experience developing and delivering project status

Required 7 years

Experience using a project portfolio management systems and tools (eg.) Clarity

Required 5 years

Advanced working knowledge of MSProject Required 5 years

Experience handling variety of stakeholders and system owners from other departments.

Required 5 years

Experience providing project management services for IT Projects involving Commercial Off the Shelf Technology (COTS)

Required

5 years

Experience managing multi-vendor environment in a government environment.

Required 5 years

Possession of a Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.

Highly Desired 3 years