Pay Range: $60 – $67/hr. The pay rate may differ depending on your skills, education, experience, and other qualifications.

Featured Benefits:

• Medical insurance in compliance with the ACA.
• 401(k).
• Sick leave in compliance with applicable state, federal, and local laws.

Complete Description:

• This is a hybrid position that requires that the contractor is onsite 2 days/week. Please limit submittals to local/regional resources that can be onsite with 24 hour notice

Primary Responsibilities:

• Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones, and required activities and tasks.
• Provide guidance to project team members throughout the project life cycle and confer with project staff to outline work plan.
• Work with agency leadership, subject matter experts and program consultants to analyze and document business requirements and communicate details to technical staff.
• Work with technical staff to define data and system design, and coordinate the design, development and testing of technical systems and services.
• Maintain project management documentation including risk and mitigation activities, keeping aware of the status of the project and the need to employ mitigation measures for compliance with project objectives and timelines.
• Verify all system documentation is complete and testing is successful before approvals for live implementation are made.
• Direct and coordinate activities of project personnel and vendor representatives to ensure project goals are accomplished and are in line with business objectives.
• Monitor project activities to ensure quality and integrity of deliverables. Perform change control.

Requirement:

• Five or more years of progressively responsible IT project management experience
• Experience with major defined project management methodologies, e.g., waterfall, agile, hybrid.
• Experience in a product ownership role
• Demonstrated experience working with diverse teams and managing a variety of IT projects, including technology infrastructure, data systems, application deployments, or similar services.
• Knowledge of project management methodology and experience or familiarity with major program management approaches (for example, PMI, agile, etc.)
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
• Experience managing large and complex projects
• Certification in project management (e.g., PMP)

Desirable Qualifications:

• Experience working in State government, academic institution, or similar organization

Required Skills:

• Experience working in State government, academic institution, or similar organization (Highly desired).
• Experience in a product ownership role.
• Five or more years of progressively responsible IT project management experience.
• Experience with major defined project management methodologies, e.g., waterfall, agile, hybrid.
• Demonstrated experience working with diverse teams and managing a variety of IT projects, including technology infrastructure, data systems, application.
• Knowledge of project management methodology and experience or familiarity with major program management approaches (for example, PMI, agile, etc.).
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Experience managing large and complex projects.
• Certification in project management (e.g., PMP).