Requisition No: 828578 

Agency: Department of State

Working Title: DOS - OPS PALM PROJECT MANAGER - 45945900

 Pay Plan: Temp

Position Number: 45945900 

Salary: $35 -40 per hour 

Posting Closing Date: 05/12/2024 

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Department of State

OPS PALM Project Manager

Division of Administrative Services

Director’s Office

Open Competitive

This is a temporary position at least through June 30, 2025

Minimum Qualifications:

Five (5) years of project management experience with a minimum of three (3) years in information technology or two (2) years experience leading accounting and cash management transformations.

Special Note:

Responses to qualifying questions must be clearly supported in your employment history.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Serves as the project lead and project management liaison for the agency’s transition from Florida Accounting Information Resource (FLAIR) to the Planning, Accounting and Ledger Management (PALM) system. Leads various information technology projects, to include special and ad hoc.

Serves as the information technology project management subject matter expert, identifies challenges, recommends solutions, and supports cross-team collaboration.

• Create and manage internal workplan.
• Develop business rules, document business analysis of internal and external applications, processes, and procedures.
• Prepare, review, and provide written reports for management on project status, progress, issues, risks, ongoing and planned assignments.
• Create at-a-glance timelines.
• Develop and maintain project documentation.
• Support planning activities and monitor project deliverables.
• Develop project schedule and other tools as identified to promote timely and accurate information for the project.
• Analyze project performance using defined measures. 
• Works with subject matter experts; identify and develop process changes.
• Identifies, records, and monitors risks, action items, issues, lessons learned, and decisions.
• Verify compliance with procedures and rules governing project(s). 
• Develop training materials and provide training.
• Review, complete, and distribute required reports (e.g., status reports, and other reports as required).

CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS: A Level 2 criminal background check is a condition of employment. If selected for this position, you must provide your fingerprints. We will send your fingerprints to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a criminal background check.

IMPORTANT NOTICES:

We are committed to enhancing our workforce through the employment of Veterans’, individuals with disabilities and seek qualified candidates with diverse backgrounds, abilities, skills, and talents to join our workforce.

Male applicants born on or after January 1, 1960, will not be eligible for hire or promotion unless they are registered with the Selective Services System (SSS) before their 26th birthday, or have a Letter of Registration Exemption from the SSS. For more information, please visit the SSS website: https://www.sss.gov

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.