What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at The State of Oklahoma?
Job Posting Title
Project Manager
Agency
290 EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSION
Supervisory Organization
Employment Security Commission-Project Management
Job Posting End Date (Continuous if Blank)
April 02, 2025
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the posting end date above.
Estimated Appointment End Date (Continuous if Blank)
Full/Part-Time
Full time
Job Type
Regular
Compensation
Annual Salary - Up to $80,841.00; Hourly - $38.865865 (based on education and experience)
Job Description
Job Type/Salary/Location
- Full-time
- Vacancies: One
- Salary: Up to $80,841.00 annually; $38.865865 hourly (based on education and experience)
- Primary Working Hours: M-F; 8:00am – 5:00pm
- Location: Oklahoma City, OK
- Supervisory: Not applicable
- Travel: Occasional travel may be required
Benefits
- The State of Oklahoma offers a comprehensiveBenefits Packet, including a generous benefit allowance to offset the cost of insurance premiums for employees and their eligible dependents.
Position Essential Functions
- Provides coordination, direction, management, or consultation in the planning, development and implementation of projects for the agency. This may include performing a specific function or task for several projects to ensure successful completion of the projects.
- Collect and analyze project requirements, define scope, create work breakdown structures, and verify and control the scope of the project and budget.
- Ensures key projects are properly planned to identify resources required, alternatives offered, build consensus, establish and monitor timeframes needed to complete projects according to state or agency deadlines. This includes identifying each stage of the project and assessing its business impact.
- Serve as a liaison between stakeholders, and all identified partners, vendors, or users of the project.
- Develops and implements communication and change management plans.
- Conducts risk assessments and identifies methods to mitigate the identified risks.
- Creates quotes, amendments, and change orders via established procedures and protocols to include impact on budgets, schedules, and project completion.
- Monitor and maintain project information such as project objectives, project specifications, schedules, funding, performance, and staffing throughout the life cycle of the project. This may include making changes in scope and re-baselining tracking and delivery, and other stages of the project.
- Develop and implement strategies for the quality of the product and the project throughout the life cycle of the project and post-project monitoring and assessments by developing and implementing quality control and quality assurance activities
- Utilize project management tools for task tracking, reporting status, financial tracking, and resource utilization reporting
These job functions, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Competencies
- Knowledge of advanced levels of project management methodologies, selection and motivation of project team, and managing projects that are complex in nature
- Skills in communicating the vision of the project, identifying and managing all resources required to complete the project within the scope, developing quality assurance strategies and standards to monitor post-project performance for slippage, imbedding risk avoidance strategies within the project.
- Ability to monitor the project and anticipate when change or correction of scope is needed, utilize all resources available to assure positive outcomes of project, communicate at various levels to team members, stakeholders, vendors, and partners to achieve consensus and understanding, provide leadership, implement team dynamics practices and principals.
Physical Demands/Work Environment
- Work is typically performed in the office setting with climate-controlled settings and exposure to noise levels determined by the office environment. While performing the duties of the job, the employee is required to talk, stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms requiring periods of sitting or standing and daily use of computer and phone. It also requires the occasional use of the office machinery in accordance with safety and security protocols.
Minimum Qualifications
- Education and Experience requirements at this level consist of a bachelor’s degree in business administration, computer science, information systems management or related scientific or technical discipline and three years of experience in project management; or a combination of education and experience.
Preference will be given to candidates who possess:
- Project experience of at least ½ million-dollar budget
- Project Management Professional Certification
- STEM Degree
- Agile or Hybrid Certifications
- Lean, Green Belt, or Blackbelt Certification
Accommodation Statement
- OESC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities may be provided upon request.
Equal Opportunity Employment
The State of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of genetic information, race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability.
Current active State of Oklahoma employees must apply for open positions internally through the Workday
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