Project Manager III

Job Description:

The Department of Children and Families Bureau of Information Technology Services is looking for a project manager to serve as the BITS Enterprise Security Project Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for BITS cybersecurity project coordination and deliverables. Develops project charters, plans, deliverables, and other project artifacts.
• Works closely with the project sponsor and IT senior management to understand and prioritize cybersecurity objectives. Understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions, performs feasibility studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives in support of project management.
• Collaborates with Enterprise Lead and peer Project Managers on standards and process development.
• Gather and review internal requirements as well as regulatory requirements and industry security best practices.
• Assist in other project management efforts as needed.
• Designs, plans, and coordinates work teams. Follows standard project management industry practices such as the PMI's framework.
• Understands business and technical objectives of a project, and works closely with project sponsor.
• Creates project charter and work plan, and tracks budget and schedule progress via appropriate metrics.
• Establishes project organization and methodologies, and defines roles and responsibilities.
• Documents risks and develops mitigation plans. Manages scope.
• Creates and implements a communication plan.
• Builds an effective team, assigns tasks to team members, and evaluates outcomes. Negotiates resources.
• Communicates to stakeholders and project sponsor. Identifies, tracks, and ensures resolution of issues and removal of barriers.
• Provides technical support to project team members.
• Handles complex application features and technical designs.
• Designs and implements the components required for complex application features.
• Generally manages a group of applications systems analysts.
• Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Professional certification is highly desirable

Experience:

• Project Manager capabilities with 12 or more years of experience.
• Capable of managing a project with up to ten (10) or more staff and/or a project with multiple subprojects.