Project Management Specialist

****This is an onsite position ****

We are seeking a Project Management Specialist with bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or financial-related

field and five years’ professional work experience. Work experience can substitute on a year-for-year basis for

the degree. Special consideration will be given to candidates with Project Manager Professional (PMP)

certification or similar agile/project management certifications.

Experience

Candidate must have a minimum of five years’ experience in business process reengineering and

documentation. This experience must also be in a professional environment in public sector technology

organizations. Candidate will be expected to describe multiple past experiences with business process tools and

how they were deployed for a successful outcome.

Primary Job Duties/Tasks

The candidate must be able to perform the following duties and/or tasks. Duties will include, but not be limited to:

1. Designs, implements, evaluates, and audits project management processes and templates for the

Application Services office.

2. Compiles metrics relating to IT project success, project attributes, and individual productivity and

adherence to defined processes.

3. Serves as a resource to project managers and project leaders to educate and assist them with

implementing project management processes and making improvements/changes.

4. Provides administrative support to project managers and project leaders.

5. Organizes, publishes, and maintains project-related documentation and templates in various sources.

6. Continually communicates with both project managers and assigned staff to ensure the needs of both are

being met.

7. Gather and document the goals and objectives related to Application Services business strategy and help

document them as requirements for the application, infrastructure, and development plans.

8. Act as a liaison between Application Services and other FDOT business units.

9. Understand technical problems and solutions in relation to the current, as well as the future, business

environment. Must be able to suggest plans to integrate new and existing processes.

10. Identify processes for improvement, document existing processes, identify and analyze gaps between

current processes and the desired state, design new processes, develop process performance measures

and plan the transition to a new process.

11. Participate in continuous review and update to ensure that processes meet changing business unit

conditions.

12. Monitors, implements, and/or maintains quality assurance processes.

13. evaluates, monitors, and/or ensures compliance with state, federal, and FDOT/OIT laws, regulations,

policies, standards, and procedures.

14. Assist in the business process redesign and documentation as needed to support ongoing remediation,

modernization, and migration efforts in the enterprise environment.

15. Assist with the documentation of business cases and feasibility studies. This includes facilitating work

sessions to elicit and prioritize remediation, modernization, and migration requirements.

16. Assist with the translation of high-level business requirements into detailed business documents and/or

functional specifications.

17. Coordinate the development of project schedules, implementation plans, and documentation for

computing asset remediation, modernization, and/or migration. Present to management, business users,

and technical staff.

18. Assist with User Acceptance Testing. Draft test cases, execute test cases, and document test results.

19. Evaluate critical information gathered from multiple resources. Summarize detailed data into executive

level formats as well as breaking down aggregated information into meaningful pieces.

20. Develop standardized desk procedures that include the purpose, prerequisites, process flows and

narratives of business processes.

21. Prepare proposed business rules, develop, monitor, and implement knowledge transfer activities.

Job Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

The submitted candidate must be able to apply common knowledge, skills, and abilities in the following areas:

1. Knowledge of project management tools, methods, and best practices such as those defined by the

Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).

2. Knowledge of the ideologies, techniques, and tools for quality assurance and control, and the ability to

put those into practice.

3. Knowledge of transportation technology operations.

4. Expertise in project management, process management and business systems requirements definition.

5. Ability to produce legible and complete functional documentation in a way that thoroughly captures

business processes and inputs/outputs of the applications.

6. Ability to analyze and accurately and completely define processes and workflows to design efficient

information solutions, including missing or duplicate functionality in existing applications.

7. Ability to plan, organize, coordinate, and prioritize work assignments for him/herself or lower-level team

members.

8. Advanced skills with Microsoft products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.

9. Knowledge of project management practices and agile methodologies.

10. Knowledge of Rules 60GG-1 through 5, F.A.C.