Title: Project Manager
Location: Denver, Colorado
Duration: 6 Months possibility to extension
REMOTE POSITION
Job Description:
- Operationalize Workforce Development Strategic Plan
- Supports Program leadership by standardizing and managing a process that enables iterative progress toward the strategic vision.
- Ensures Project Teams are aligned with regard to communication, planning, dependencies, and documentation.
- Solicits feedback from Project Teams on ideas for improvement and increased efficiency.
- Ensure compliance to the terms of the project s scope and statute.
- Support the BHA s Workforce Development team with additional special projects upon request.
- Project Management, Monitoring & Rollout
- Lead vendor management (with support from Workforce Development Director) including agreements, statement of work drafting, planning, timelines, and quality of deliverables.
- Develop, oversee and facilitate project planning and implementation activities for the overall coordination, scheduling, planning, monitoring, and reporting for the Learning Management System.
- Create and maintain deployment and transition plans.
- Manages training efforts including resources, schedules, faculty database, and documentation.
- Determine and create the content of status reports for the BHA Workforce Development team, troubleshoot problem areas, and deliver overall progress reports.
- Keep Program Leads informed of vendor status, issues, and risks to maintain awareness and identify potential financial, legal, or resource impacts to the project.
- Develop, recommend, and streamline processes to increase efficiency, and achieve cost avoidance.
- Stakeholder Management
- Acts as a single point of contact for Learning Management requests and inquiries from the University of Colorado project team, the BHA staff, and external stakeholders.
- Manage BHA Workforce Development intake process with stakeholders and track requests for content development.
- Communicate to leadership (change in levels of granularity)
- Determine who should be involved in vital project plan meetings and coordinate project-related activities for cross-functional teams.
- Collaborate with cross-functional project teams to develop, and appropriately execute change management strategies, including stakeholder analysis, communication plans, and resistance plans.
- Develop best practices, training, templates, and tools as well as other resources.
- Education: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelors degree.
Substitution:
- Additional, relevant, paid or unpaid experience can substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.
Required Experience:
- 5 or more years of Project Management
- 3 or more years of Contracts Management
- 3 or more years of meeting facilitation
- Experience with Vendor coordination
- Experience in Agile Organization and/or Health IT environment
- Familiarity with Learning Management and/or Instructional Design
- Interest or experience with Behavioral Health programming and policies
Preferred Qualifications:
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication and public speaking skills.
- Self-motivated and able to effectively manage time and tasks.
- Demonstrated ability to manage large-scale projects across a complex internal and external business matrix.
- Knowledge of project management and process improvement methodologies.
- Ability to solve complex problems, participate in continuous improvement, and adapt to the ideas of others.
- Ability to work effectively with key stakeholders, speak and write authoritatively and compellingly, resolve communication problems, and negotiate and manage competing interests.
- Ability to work well with constituents regardless of position and authority, contribute to governing boards and committees, and adhere to clear lines of responsibility and accountability.
- Knowledge of or familiarity with behavioral health learning and adult learning
- Ability to speak a second language other than English.
5 or more years of Project Management 3 or more years of Contracts Management 3 or more years of meeting facilitation Experience with Vendor coordination Experience in Agile Organization and/or Health IT environment Familiarity with Learning Management and/or Instructional Design Interest or experience with Behavioral Health programming and policies