Senior Project Manager

NCDITTransportation is seeking a Senior Project Manager who will be responsible for successfully planning organizing and motivating diverse project teams throughout all phases of Waterfall Agile and Hybrid projects and for delivering projects

The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for successfully planning organizing and motivating diverse project teams throughout all phases of Waterfall Agile and Hybrid projects and for delivering projects that provide exceptional value to DITTs internal and external stakeholders.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Coordinate vendors and consultants and agency IT and business staff as assigned in the execution of IT projects and related procurements.
• Coordinate and oversee the development of proposals statement of work statement of requirements and RFP responses.
• Assist management in holding teams accountable for their commitments and removing roadblocks to their work.
• Facilitate multidisciplinary teams in the development of plans goals objectives policies and procedures for completion of a project.
• Oversee and manage execution and/or coordination of daytoday project activities as required.
• Manage working relationships with key stakeholders including vendors suppliers and technology management.
• Set project goals that are consistent with technical objectives and the agencys overall technology strategy.
• Track and communicate a projects progress from a schedule cost and risk perspective to the project team customers and project stakeholders.
• Collaborate with technology leads and solution architects to incorporate agency best practices into project plans.
• Drive consistent project delivery through the entire project lifecycle including execution of procurements definition of project plans resource allocation management of project risks scope and schedule delivery of value and wellordered transitions to operations.
• Monitor progress by thirdparty vendors and define and measure their progress with metrics.
• Develop and maintain project budget plans task lists schedules risks and status to include resource allocation and schedules.
• Adhere to agency and SDLC project management practices and governance requirements.
• Exhibit significant emotional quotient (EQ) in handling project challenges and maintain a positive project culture in line with agency mission and shared values.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Strong experience leading the business and IT resources through the discovery and documentation of business and technical requirements in request for proposal and statement of requirement formats.
• Strong analytical organizational and decisionmaking skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills for collaborating and team building.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the demonstrated ability to simplify and briefly succinctly communicate complex issues to multiple audiences.
• Ability to lead others to implement new approaches systems structures and methods.
• Communicate timelines and expectations to technical and business staff.
• Ability to analyze and document system processes.
• Solid understanding of software development life cycle models.
• Exceptional knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall project management principles and practices. In addition the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a particular project and business environment.
• Experience with the ServiceNow platform.
• Experience with projects hosted in a cloud environment.

QUALIFICATIONS

• The candidate must have a minimum of 5 years of experience managing large IT Web development projects.
• Fluency in Project Management tools such as Microsoft Project Visio and Office required.
• PMP Certification through PMI
• Experience with Project Management Office methodologies and practices is strongly preferred.
• Experience with the core IT procurement processes (RFP SOW) is preferred.