EPMO - Project Manager 3

Top Skills & Years of Experience Required:

7 or more years Project Management experience required; the manager would like the candidate to have some experience managing people as well as projects.
Experience using a project portfolio management system and tools (e.g.) Clarity.
Indepth knowledge of and experience in IT project management including industry standard and best practices.
Experience establishing and maintaining project budgets schedules change requests risk and issue logs.
Vendor management experience strong communication skills.
Waterfall experience 7 years or more
Managed over 30 resources (BA or Developers)

This position is for a Senior Project Manager to assist the State of Michigan Project Management Office supporting LARA DIFS & MDOS Lottery with a multiyear high priority project. This role as part of the DTMB Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO) works closely with DTMB Agency Services technical teams as well as with agency executives/stakeholders.

The candidate must be comfortable working in a fast paced multivendor deployment supporting a hybrid workforce (combination of onsite and remote work) at all levels of the organization. Applicants should possess exceptional communication and follow up skills along with significant experience in formal IT project management. This position requires the PM to be working in person for 23 days a week and reminder can be work from home.

Basic Duties:

• Utilize the State of Michigans Project Portfolio Management Tool (Clarity) to prepare project schedules assign resources and management budgets.
• Prepare information for presentations geared to various audiences ranging from executives managers and project team members.
• Accountable for monitoring controlling and communicating project progress by actively managing the cost schedule scope resources quality and risks.
• Accountable and responsible for clear timely and accurate communications with stakeholders particularly the project sponsors project team members program managers and DTMB management on the status of the project using appropriate communication methods.
• Responsible for providing leadership and fostering collaborative participation between the technical and business teams by obtaining consensus and gaining commitment.
• Responsible for working with the project team members to develop and maintain the following key SUITE Project Management Methodology (PMM) deliverables throughout the project lifecycle:
  • Project Charter Project Schedule Project Budget Communication Plan Project Status Report Risk and Issue Management Plans Change Requests Project Closedown Summary
• Responsible for managing interfaces related communication with other agencies
• Responsible for ensuring the project adheres to the SUITE PMM and System Engineering Methodology (SEM) including appropriate and timely transitions through the stages and phases of the project lifecycle.
• Responsible for facilitating and enforcing the Change Management process (Change Requests) when the project deviates from the approved scope schedule or budget. This includes ensuring all Change Requests have appropriate approval before action is taken or information is updated.
• Responsible for creating project Corrective Action Plans (CAP) when necessary for projects in yellow or red status.
• Responsible for understanding the project benefits and the impact of change requests to the benefits business cases. Responsible for ensuring related project artifacts are updated accordingly.
• Responsible for reviewing and understanding vendor contracts to actively manage the vendor deliverables and adherence to the vendor deliverable approval procedure.
• Facilitates the interactions among stakeholders by clarifying the expectations of all participants and ensuring all deliverables are assigned reviewed and completed.

Qualifications

Required/Desired

Experience

Indepth knowledge of and experience in IT project management including industry standard and best practices.

Required

7 years

Proven record for delivering projects on time and on budget in a formal project manager role

Required

7 years

Experience establishing and maintaining project budgets schedules change requests risk and issue logs

Required

7 years

Experience developing and delivering project status

Required

7 years

Experience using a project portfolio management systems and tools (eg.) Clarity

Required

5 years

Possession of a Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.

Highly Desired

3 years

Advanced working knowledge of MSProject

Required

5 years

Experience handling variety of stakeholders and system owners from other departments.

Highly Desired

5 years

Experience providing project management services for IT Projects involving Commercial Off the Shelf Technology (COTS)

Required

5 years

Experience managing multivendor environment in a government environment.

Highly Desired

5 years