Job Description: Job Duties:
- Oversees vendor time and cost estimates, project plans/schedules, budgets, and vendor billing.
- Facilitates vendors critical process assessments and redesign efforts for process improvements.
- Work with the project steering committee and vendor senior project management to resource the tasks of the project.
- Work with Client PMO, the Deputy Director, of Child Welfare Maintenance and Operations, the Deputy Director Child Welfare Modernization, and the Quality Assurance team to use the agencys established project standards, procedures, and quality objectives.
- Manages project collaborative meetings between vendors, businesses, and other state technical project teams.
- Works with senior project management to identify specific opportunities or weaknesses within assigned projects and makes specific change recommendations to structures, processes, or people to improve project performance.
- Monitors and reports on the performance of vendors to ensure delivery in line with contractual obligations and performance metrics.
- Keeps management aware of all situations key to the delivery of project scope, schedule, and cost.
- ssesses variances from the project plan gathers metrics, and develops and implements changes as necessary to ensure that the project remains within specified scope and is within time, cost, and quality objectives.
- Conducts a formal review with the business sponsor at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction.
- Provides the team with constructive feedback as it pertains to project performance.
- Develops and maintains a productive working relationship with project sponsors, vendors, and key clients.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in a related field or specialized training and three years of IT project management or equivalent IT team leadership experience.
- PMP certification from PMI or equivalent certification.
- 3 years of experience leading projects of moderate to high complexity (must have occurred in the last 5 years).
- Experience within the last 3 years leading/coordinating vendor-managed projects.
- Hands-on experience with MS Project, SharePoint, and MS Office experience.
- 7 years of experience leading projects of moderate to high complexity (must have occurred in the last 5 years).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous experience with child welfare systems, projects, and business processes.
- Previous experience with Jira and ServiceNow.
- Demonstrated strong vendor management skills.
- Experience working in state government.