CARDS Project Manager

Equinox Consulting Partners is looking for a Project Manager with 10+ years of experience in the field or related area to assist with the implementation of a new Computer-Aided Dispatch, Case Management, and Records Management System. The successful candidate will assist our client, the Virginia State Police (VSP), by managing a large, complex IT project with policy change management implications for public safety and law enforcement.

Skills :

• Ensure the project is delivered within scope, schedule, and budget acceptance rates
• Serve as the contact point for driving projects to successful completion by meeting the identified business needs of the agency.
• Create and maintain the project charter, project schedule, identify and update risks and issues, provide the project status report to key stakeholders, assist with other documentation, lead project team meetings, and conduct project lessons learned meetings to implement additional best practices.
• Provide project status reporting to the Program Manager and the Executive Steering Committee on a daily, weekly, monthly basis as needed.
• Coordinate VSP and VITA efforts on the design, development, and implementation of the system
• Responsible for the identification, analysis, tracking and recommending appropriate actions to project issues including those that are technology related.
• Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
• Work with customers to understand the overall objectives and how the project or initiative correlates with business goals and strategies.
• Collaborate with business partners, sponsors, assigned Business Analyst, and project team members to create the project charter, work breakdown structure (WBS), project schedule, evaluation and recommendations documents, communications plans, RACI documents, and other project artifacts as assigned.
• Assist the Procurement Officer and Program Manager with coordinating vendor proposal evaluations
• Perform special projects as assignments as required.