Project Manager Expert

Job Title: Project Manager Expert (63600)

Job Description:

The Expert Project Manager (PM) is responsible for planning leading organizing and motivating agile and hybrid project teams with a focus on achieving business results.

Job Requirements

• Project Planning and Management: Define project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value; organize and lead project status and working meetings; prepare and distribute progress reports; manage risks and issues; correct deviations from plans; and perform delivery planning and operational readiness for assigned projects.
• Project Team Management: Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments remove roadblocks to their work; leverage organizational resources to improve capacity for project work; and mentoring and developing team members; facilitate the efficient use of resources across multiple projects and monitor trends to ensure use aligns with strategic goals.
• Product Owner Support: Support the Product Owner in managing customer expectations for project deliverables managing stakeholder communications and help with an effective system of project governance
• Communication and Documentation: Keeping stakeholders informed resolving issues and maintaining project documentation utilizing project management tools
• Process Management and Improvement: Champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Project Management
• Team Building: Promote empowerment of the team ensure that each team member is fully engaged in the project and making a meaningful contribution and encourage a sustainable pace with highlevels of quality for the team
• Vendor Management: Monitor and report on vendor performance metrics. Ensuring vendors are delivering against a specific contracts deliverables.

Skills Required:

• Effective interpersonal skills including the ability to manage conflict listening collaborating and team building
• Strong analytical planning and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands
• Ability to use critical thinking to make complex decisions
• Indepth knowledge and understanding of business needs with the ability to establish/maintain high levels of customer trust and confidence
• Solid understanding of and demonstrated experience in using appropriate tools:
• 1. Project Management tools
• 2. Jira/Confluence Workfront Monday.com or equivalent
• 3. Microsoft Project Visio and all Office Tools
• Excellent oral and written communications skills and experience interacting at all levels including the executive level
• Full transparency and communication of project progress risks and vendor performance
• Ability to work creatively and analytically to solve business problems and propose solutions
• Ability to see the big picture and quickly comprehend the impact of new technologies systems and/or teams on changes to business processes
• Ability to drive projects and take initiative to keep things progressing forward
• Ability to provide leadership to business analysts program managers coordinators and collaborate with customers and develop strategies and solutions of high business value

Required Credentials and Experience:

• Bachelors degree or higher
• At least 7 years of medium to largescale project experience in a project management or similar role
• At least 7 to 10 years of strong experience with project or program planning resource planning work plan development and project management processes

Preferred Credentials and Experience:

• PMP certification
• Demonstrated prior experience with SCRUM/Agile blended methodologies at the enterpriselevel of an organization.
• Experience working within the public sector specifically health and human services agencies
• Organizational change management experience