EPMO - Project Manager 3 in Lansing, MI Hybrid Work

Lansing, MI

30+ days ago

Job Description

Job ID: 156384
Job Title:EPMO - Project Manager 3
- Assignment duration: Initial 1-year contract with a possibility of extension based on performance and business needed
- Hybrid Work Schedule (Non-Negotiable): There is no remote-only option
Required onsite days- Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Remote eligible days- Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays
- Candidates must be local to the Lansing, Michigan area (within a 1-hour commute). This requirement is non-negotiable

Description:
This Project Manager will be responsible for a multi-year modernization project, which will be highly complex, require extensive change and vendor management skills, and experience with Microsoft DevOps.
The Project Manager (PM) leads the modernization project team responsible for achieving the project objectives. The PM plans, manages, and communicates project activities ensuring the project is delivered according to the project scope, schedule, and budget as defined in the project charter. Adopting the dep culture of collaboration across all teams will be integral to the success of this position and the project. dep relies on Agile Scrum self-managed teams, which require a servant leader PM to be successful.

General responsibilities:

Accountable for monitoring and communicating project progress by actively managing the cost, schedule, scope, resources, quality, and risks.
Understands business and technical objectives of a project and works closely with Product Owners.
Accountable and responsible for clear, timely, and accurate communications with stakeholders, particularly the Modernization Steering Team, project team members, program manager, and Agency/client management, on the status of the project, using appropriate communication methods.
Accountable for efficient and effective ongoing communication with the vendor throughout the project lifecycle.
Responsible for providing leadership and fostering collaborative participation between the technical and business teams by obtaining consensus and gaining commitment. Advocates as necessary to ensure project success.
Prepares reports for the Modernization Steering team regarding the status of the project and presents status of projects in regularly scheduled program steering meetings.
Responsible for working with the project team members to develop and maintain key SUITE Project Management Methodology (PMM) deliverables throughout the project lifecycle.
Responsible for actively evaluating the project to anticipate, identify, evaluate, and mitigate project risks and issues. Escalates risks and issues to Program team when needed.
Responsible for ensuring the project adheres to 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 project team adherence to IT governance activities.
Responsible for understanding project interdependencies and ensuring appropriate and timely discussions and actions occur when a project change may have an impact.
Responsible for completion of the project tailoring process to determine the PMM and SEM deliverables for the project.
Responsible for reviewing and understanding vendor contracts to actively manage the vendor deliverables and adherence to the vendor deliverable approval procedure.

Required Qualifications:

5+ years of experience managing projects with budgets greater than $20 million.
5+ years Agile Scrum experience (documented in resume).
Past 5 years of experience must be as a Project Manager working on IT Projects.
Documented experience managing an IT project in a large, complex enterprise-governed IT ecosystem.
Passion for collaboration and working in a team environment.
Experience working with other project managers to ensure technology integration between systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

1+ years of Microsoft DevOps experience
Previous state government experience highly desired.

Numbers & Facts

Location

Lansing, MI

Skills

Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
Budget Managementunmatched
Budgetingunmatched
Business Caseunmatched
Calendar Managementunmatched
Change Managementunmatched
Change Order Managementunmatched
Change Requests/Ordersunmatched
Communication Skillsunmatched
Contract Managementunmatched
Corrective Actionunmatched
Cost Controlunmatched
Delivery Managementunmatched
DevOpsunmatched
Ecosystemsunmatched
IT Governanceunmatched
Leadershipunmatched
Management of Information Systems/Technology (MIS)unmatched
Microsoft Product Familyunmatched
Project Evaluationunmatched
Project Lifecycleunmatched
Project Scheduleunmatched
Project Trackingunmatched
Project/Program Managementunmatched
Reporting Skillsunmatched
Risk Managementunmatched
Sales Managementunmatched
Scrum Project Management and Software Developmentunmatched
Search Engine Marketing (SEM)unmatched
Servant leadershipunmatched
State Governmentunmatched
Team Lead/Managerunmatched
Team Playerunmatched
Time Managementunmatched
Vendor/Supplier Managementunmatched

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