Project Manager

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Review project proposals or plans to determine a time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing projects, staffing requirements and the assignment of available departmental resources to various project phases.

• Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones, and required activities and tasks.

• Provide leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle and confer with project staff to outline a work plan.

• Establish a work plan and staffing for project activities, iterations, or phases, and arrange for recruitment or assignment of project personnel.

• Ensure that project goals are in line with business objectives.

• Ensure that project goals are achieved.

• Assign duties and responsibilities to project personnel and define the scope of their authority.

• Direct and coordinate the activities of project personnel to ensure projects progress on schedule and within budget.

• Review status reports prepared by project personnel and modify schedules or plans as required.

• Work with business and cross-functional teams to develop Business Case and Cost Benefit analysis for prioritized initiatives within the program.

• Manage multiple Vendor onboarding and identify key requirements needed from cross-functional teams and Vendors.

• Work with other program managers to identify risks and opportunities across multiple projects within the department.

• Manage budget across various workstreams and funding channels for maximum productivity.

• Manage resource allocations and expectations for program.

• Collaborate with the State DIT to ensure program compliance with the State IT Roadmap and all State Privacy and security requirements.

Skills:

• The selected candidate must be a results-oriented individual with a strong work ethic and must be able to demonstrate excellent leadership, negotiation, time management, facilitation, and organizational skills.

• Experience in communicating in a fashion tailored to the audience and their needs.

• Excellent written communication and presentation skills

• Demonstrates experience in working effectively with all levels of staff, clients, and other IT personnel.

• Experience in the responsibility for acquiring and utilizing the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timeframes, and quality for a program.

• Ability to identify and plan systematic corrective action to reduce errors and improve the quality of the systems and services, by examination of the root causes of problems.

• Ability to build, influence, lead and motivate effective teams towards end results.

Management prefers applicants with the following:

- Candidate with PMP Certification

- Candidate with Agile (PMI-ACP) Certification

- Experience managing or supervising programs involving Application modernization and modularization projects.

- Experience collaborating with State and Local Government

- Experience in complex, cross-functional team environments

- Knowledge of social services and Medicaid programs or similarly complex case management systems