IT Senior Project Manager

We are looking for

• Developing and maintaining detailed project schedules, and budgets,s and monitoring expenditures.
• Developing and maintaining all required project management artifacts following State, client, 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 RFP.
• Working with vendors to manage contract deliverables, and 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 ensuring 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.

• 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 a 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 toward end results.
• Flexibility, adaptability, and ability to work in a high-demand dynamic environment
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including the development of the project.
• Must have experience writing RFPs/technical writing.
• Must have experience as a Project Manager on a Salesforce/MS. Dynamics/ServiceNow implementation project.

• Candidate with PMP Certification.
• Experience managing or supervising legacy system replacement projects.
• Experience collaborating with State and Local Government.
• Experience planning and managing data conversion activities.
• Experience building rollout plans.