The Project Manager for Special Projects is needed to analyze and document business needs and processes, organize around problem/opportunity, plan and remediate troubled special projects, and ensure new initiatives are planned, launched and executed correctly .

Work activities:

• Develop, clarify and manage the scope of the project, define contract deliverables and achieve targeted outcomes.

• Ensure project requirements are achieved in a timely fashion and within budget guidelines.

• Assemble project team, identify needed resources, assign responsibilities and develop timeframes to facilitate successful completion of project activities and deliverables.

• Determine project costs/ensures delivery on time and within budgetary guidelines.

• Ensure compatibility and consistency with existing architectural and enterprise standards.

• Perform cost/benefit analysis of actions and initiatives.

• Schedule and document meeting minutes.

• Follow the OIT Project Management practice and prescribed SDLC.

• Prepare status reports, status summaries and dashboards for presentation to mid and senior level management.

• Provide support, coaching and mentoring on project management best practices, as requested for

• project coordinator associates.

Skills/experience of the assigned staff:

Required

• Demonstrate leadership qualities such as conflict/issue resolution, the ability to run a project or serve as project manager on a program team and can ensure a successful project lifecycle

• Communicate (verbally and in writing) effectively with stakeholders and senior business leadership of departments and agencies participating in this project.

• Organize and work effectively with project teams of staff from department and agencies participating in this effort

• Demonstrate experience and relevant expertise in the design and building of distributed and enterprise solutions

• Plan, organize and direct the work activities of outside consultants and/or systems analysis and programming personnel assigned on a team.

• Demonstrate presentation skills, strategic thinking, and high professional ethics.

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates, departmental officials, outside consultants and vendors.

• The principles of project management, systems delivery life cycle and budgeting.

• Concepts and applications of servers, storage, mainframes, monitoring, ITIL, metrics and performance management, disaster recovery, data center facilities management, managed services, and cloud computing.

• IT project management best practice, principles and techniques. (PMBOK) Highly

Desired/Preferred

• Completion of a Bachelors degree program at an accredited college or university with a major course work in Computer Science, Information Technology or a closely related field.

• Minimum of 3-5 years Project Management experience managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects

• 4-6 years of applicable business experience

• PMP certification or Master’s Certificate in Project Management preferred.

• Any equivalent combination of education and experience determined to be acceptable by the Office of Innovation & Technology and Human Resources.