What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Project Manager position at HDJ & Associates, Inc.?
Our client is seeking a Senior Project Manager to coordinate the daily workflow of the project team, drive the requirements process through a structured project lifecycle and ensure seamless communication between internal and external stakeholders. This role requires a senior leader with 10 years of experience managing complex consulting programs, specifically within government environments. The coordinator ensures all deliverables align with PMO/PMI standards and strategic program milestones.
Key Responsibilities
Program Orchestration & Workflow:
- Workstream Coordination: Directs the daily activities of Business Analysts, Data Analysts, and Technical Analysts to ensure all project streams remain on schedule and within scope.
- Resource Allocation: Manages team assignments and task distribution to optimize productivity across multi-disciplinary technical and business workstreams.
Traditional Milestone & Deliverable Management:
- Project Scheduling: Develops and maintains detailed project schedules, tracking progress against critical path milestones and key deliverables.
- Stage-Gate Governance: Manages the transition between project phases (Initiation, Planning, Execution, and Closure), ensuring all requirements are met before proceeding to the next gate.
- Formal Reporting: Produces comprehensive status reports, including RAID logs (Risks, Actions, Issues, and Dependencies), for presentation to executive leadership.
Government & PMO Compliance:
- Regulatory Alignment: Ensures all project activities, reporting, and documentation meet the specific compliance and transparency standards required for government-facing projects.
- PMI Standard Execution: Operates as a subject matter expert on PMI best practices, enforcing standardized project management methodologies across the program.
- Requirements Traceability: Oversees the requirements repository (e.g., Jira/Confluence), maintaining a rigorous Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) that is audit-ready and linked to the program roadmap.
Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Liaison: Acts as the primary point of contact between technical teams and high-level business stakeholders, facilitating formal requirements & review meetings.
- Roadblock Escalation: Proactively identifies project bottlenecks and escalates critical risks to the API Technical Lead or senior program leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- Senior Consulting Leadership: 10 years of experience leading high-stakes consulting programs and managing large-scale IT or data services projects.
- Professional Certification: Must be PMO or PMI (PMP) certified.
- Government Sector Expertise: Proven experience or deep functional knowledge of navigating government agencies or highly regulated public sector environments.
- Structured Project Management: Demonstrated ability to manage formal project lifecycles, Gantt charts, and complex dependency mapping.
- Team Leadership: Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams in a high-pressure, deliverable-based environment.
- PMO/PMI certified
- 10 years managing consulting programs
- Government experience / knowledge
- Nice to have - finance transformation, billing, AR, collections knowledge
Preferred Qualifications:
- Finance Transformation Knowledge: Experience in large-scale finance modernization initiatives, specifically regarding Billing, Accounts Receivable (AR), and Collections.
- Financial Services Background: Prior experience at the intersection of government regulation and financial data integrity.
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