IT Project Manager

IT Project Manager

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• The Client is seeking an IT Project Manager to drive business and technology projects to completion while insuring adherence to established budgets, business plans, process, procedures and requirements while working closely with Business unit personnel, Business Analysts and Architects.
• The project manager will be responsible for adhering to project management governance on multiple current and future projects. Additionally, the PM will be accountable for generating project schedules, identifying/staffing needed resourcing, completing the procurement of vendor products / implementation services, and submitting funding requests as required. The PM will manage the delivery efforts and report status of each to the Executive Steering Committee.
• The PM will work with multiple business and platform areas including Information Technology, Medicaid, Child Welfare, and other areas of the client potentially including upper-level committees. The Project Manager will conduct project meetings and is responsible for project tracking and analysis, ensuring adherence to quality standards and project deliverables.
• The PM will be part of a PMO team responsible for all aspects of IT project governance, assessment, management and control. The ability to gather and define requirements; build a project plan; identifying resource needs; and transparent, clear communications across all levels of stakeholders. Essential is the ability to multi-task on continually changing and morphing priorities as prescribed by leadership in response to department and legislative direction.
• We’re looking for a passionate Project Manager who knows how to help define, de-risk and execute against a product vision. The role demands strong product instincts, excellent communication skills, technical fluency, empathy, humility and an appreciation for and understanding of lean startup, agile and user-centered design values, principles and practices.

• Collaboratively defining and driving product strategy, vision and roadmap evangelizing to all the teams, partners and users of our platforms
• Quickly understand a specific domain and identify the trends and opportunities in that space
• Working with the team to drive product definition, design and prototyping process to discover customer problems and create valuable, desirable and feasible solutions.
• Collaboratively define and prioritize a backlog for your product that continuously delivers measurable value towards the vision
• Helping innovate and iterate on agile product management processes and share our insights
• Working at a team level with developers and designers to determine what to work on next, write and accept user stories.
• Bring clarity where there is uncertainty, manage risk and continuously deliver value.
• Define experiments, measuring success metrics and using data to inform decisions.
• Bridge business goals, user needs and feasibility as you help design and ship product
• Work closely with your team to help create positive business outcomes for our clients
• Confidently facilitate discussions with a group as large as an executive conference room, while drawing out all the voices by facilitating the right activities to get the right information
• Create a backlog, write user stories, and manage releases
• Able to break down complex problems into actionable steps with measurable outcomes
• Strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to teach others
• Ability to work collaboratively with others and navigate complex decision making
• Focused on data-driven approaches to solving problems, and accelerating the learning process to validate solutions
• Ability to collaborate well with engineers, designers, and other partners
• Experience with Lean and User-Centered Design methodologies
• Experience with agile development methodology, ideally Extreme Programming
• Comfortable with ambiguity. We work in an iterative and incremental way, balancing many different inputs and constantly making trade-offs.
• Experience closely collaborating with engineers and designers as part of a small team.
• Comfort with ambiguity. We work in an iterative and incremental way, balancing many different inputs and constantly making trade-offs.