Project Manager – PMO Supporting Department of Treasury and Michigan Gaming
Control Board
This position is for a Senior Project Manager (PM3) to assist the State of
Michigan Project Management Office supporting Michigan Department of Treasury
with a multi-year 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 in the
delivery of System Security Plans (SSP), Plan of Action and Milestones (POAM),
and various projects for Michigan Department of Treasury.
The candidate must be comfortable working in a fast paced, multi-vendor
deployment supporting a hybrid workforce (combination of on-site 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
2 days a week and 3 days remote.
Basic Duties:
* Utilize the State of Michigan’s 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 MGCB/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
In-depth 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 project portfolio management systems and tools (eg.) Clarity
Required
5 years
Advanced working knowledge of MSProject
Required
5 years
Experience handling variety of stakeholders and system owners from other
departments.
Required
5 years
Oversee Technical Teams with system architecture and integration across SaaS
solutions.
Required
5 years
Experience providing project management services for IT Projects involving
Commercial Off the Shelf Technology (COTS)
Required
5 years
Experience managing multi-vendor environment in a government environment.
Required
5 years
Developed and maintained detailed project integration schedules.
Required
5 years
Prior Developer/Senior Technical Project Management experience.
Required
5 years
Scrum Master Certified
Required
5 years
System Security Plans (SSP)
Required
5 years
Plan of Action and Milestones (POAM)
Required
5 years
Possession of a Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.
Highly Desired
3 yearsA
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