Project Manager - (Remote with onsite as needed, 37.5-ho week)

• Manage PM1, PM2 or PM3 roles on a multi - agency project.
• Coordinate the communications of multiple Project Managers for their schedules.
• Direct, administer, manage and facilitate an enhancement, business process re-engineering or development of a high priority, high profile, and commonwealth enterprise – wide information technology project of strategic importance.
• Accountable for activities with excess delivery cycles of 8 to 12 months.
• Accountable for project coordination with multiple agencies.
• Conduct reviews with agencies.
• • Report status and recommendations to senior leadership as needed.
• • Make decisions within the designated authority as defined in the project Charter to minimize project risk supported by sound analysis and project management best practices.
• • Mentor less experienced project management project staff to build overall understanding of project management when needed.
• • Manage, coordinate, and establish priorities for complete life-cycle of projects including the planning, design, programming, testing, and implementation of business solutions designed to meet requirements of various departments in the commonwealth.
• • Design project plans, which identify needs and define major tasks and milestones, based on scope, resources, budget, and personnel.
• • Coordinate project schedules across multiple agencies.
• • Accountable for the approval and sign-off of the Project Management Plan with customer representatives, and all affected project stakeholders.
• • Accountable for management of the project’s scope for the project and gaining agreement and approval of scope changes with customer representatives and affected stakeholders.
• • Direct work planning and scheduling work.
• • Accountable for peer reviews with the appropriate project team resources.
• • Coordinate and present proposals to agencies as necessary.
• • Identify and manage project risk, and develop risk mitigation strategies, and track to closure.
• • Coordinate the establishment of project standards and project specific procedures with team leaders.
• • Responsible for project compliance with standards and procedures.
• • Develop and facilitate achievement of project service commitments.
• • Ensure that tasks provide value and support the strategic direction of the project and meet service commitments.
• • Balance workload with project members’ capacity.
• • Plan project specific training and orientation needs.
• • Responsible for the development of estimates for the enhancement, business process re-engineering or development effort in planning, analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation.
• • Works with team leads to adjust and revise project estimates when necessary.
• • Ensure new project estimates are approved by the client and agreed upon.
• • Develop the detailed Project Management Plan for the enhancement, business process re-engineering or development effort.
• • Accountable for delivery of all work tasks identified in the Project Management Plan.
• • Manage and track the project progress against the project schedule.
• • Develop work planning and scheduling work.
• • Monitor project milestones and phases and take corrective action as needed to ensure the project is on schedule.
• • Monitor and track the project budget and advise necessary stakeholders.
• • Plan, organize, prioritize, and manage multiple work efforts across the project team.
• • Notify team leaders of project timelines, milestones, phases, work requests target dates, and approved executable work packages.
• • Accountable to schedule or monitor status reviews, project management inspections, and software quality assurance work product and process reviews with the appropriate stakeholders.
• • Responsible for the capture and reporting of required project management metrics.
• • Analyze and distribute reports on project metrics associated with work items related to improvement measures.
• • Ensure all changes to scope follow processes outlined in the Change Management Plan and are documented.
• • Prepare status reports on a periodic basis for the project team, team leads, group leads, Sponsor, and appropriate stakeholders.
• • Responsible to tailor and baseline all project templates.
• • Ensure processes and activities are followed.
• • Communicate and work with users and clients as necessary.
• • Anticipate issues and proactively address them. Identify and track issues.
• • Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and customer representatives.
• • Serve as the primary point of contact for all project-related issues and resolution of issues.
• • Communicate effectively with customers and software / hardware suppliers supporting the commonwealth as appropriate.
• • Communicate to team members how their work assignments relate to and help achieve project objectives.
• • Accountable for the final project management evaluation review with stakeholders.
• Facilitate stakeholder interviews, workshops, and surveys to gather and document detailed business requirements, user stories, and use cases, ensuring alignment with project objectives.
• Perform As-Is and To-Be process assessments, identifying inefficiencies and recommending improvements to enhance operational workflows and system functionalities.
• Facilitate the formation and execution of test plans, including user acceptance testing (UAT), to ensure that delivered solutions meet business requirements and quality standards.

S R INTERNATIONAL INC