Job Description:

• Developing and maintaining detailed project schedule, budget and monitoring expenditures

• Developing and maintaining all required project management artifacts following State, DHHS and PMBOK guidelines

• Managing scope, resources, timelines, costs/budget, quality, communication, and procurements to meet the goals of the State

• Leading and performing hands-on analysis of the business and technical environments, and writing procurement documents

• Working with vendors to manage contract deliverables, oversee all vendor activities to ensure that all the milestones are met

• Ensuring that project plans and schedules are established and maintained, ensuring that deliverables are completed timely and accurately

• Establishing project governance, conducting formal presentations, coordinating with all project stakeholders and ensure that appropriate project controls are instituted

• Serving as an IT project liaison to the business client

• Working with business stakeholders to develop necessary project management, change management, risk management, rollout, and training plans

• Working with the technical team to ensure technical readiness during implementation and supervising implementation activities

• Developing and maintaining all required State CIO project documentation

Required skills include:

The selected candidate must be a results-oriented individual with a very strong work ethic and must be able to demonstrate excellent IT Project Management, negotiation, communication and problem-solving skills.

• Capable of leading effective project meetings that are tailored to the audience

• Ability to create simple to complex project plans, timelines and work breakdown structures using project management tools

• Must have proficiency in project management, agile, scrum, and kanban software tools

• Must have strategic planning skills with good understanding of roadmap development.

• Ability to write and present effective project materials, including presentations and status reports

• Ability to work effectively with all levels of staff, clients and other IT personnel

• Proven experience with working collaboratively with business/program partners

• Ability to effectively identify and resolve system or business process/project issues

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

• Flexibility, adaptability, and ability to work in a high-demand dynamic environment

• Strong analytical skills

• Strong written and oral communication skills, including development of project

• Must have experience writing Procurement documents (RFP/RFQ) and technical artifacts

• Experience as a Project Manager on a cloud-based implementation project is a plus

Management prefers applicants with the following:

•            Candidate with PMP Certification.  Agile/Scrum Master certification is a plus

•            Experience managing or supervising legacy system upgrade and/or replacement projects

•            Experience collaborating with State and Local Government

•            Experience with public health programs

•            Experience planning and managing data conversion activities

•            Experience building rollout plans