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Job Title: Strategic Project Manager
Location: Denver, CO
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Duration: 12 Months
Work Authorization: U.S. Citizens (USC) / Green Card Holders (GC)
Interview Process: Face-to-face / Webcam
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the master project schedule, budget, scope baseline, and benefits realization plan.
- Establish clear project objectives, milestones, deliverables, and measurable success criteria aligned with organizational goals.
- Support vendor solicitation, evaluation, selection, and contract management in accordance with state procurement requirements.
- Monitor vendor and project team performance to ensure delivery within scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
- Collaborate with legal, policy, research, technology, and operational teams to incorporate regulatory requirements and evidence-based practices into the solution.
- Facilitate stakeholder meetings, executive discussions, governance activities, and issue escalations across business, technology, and judicial leadership.
- Lead organizational change management, communications, training, stakeholder readiness, and go-live support.
- Coordinate data migration, testing, cutover planning, and implementation activities to ensure continuity of probation operations.
- Identify, assess, track, and mitigate project risks, issues, dependencies, and implementation challenges.
- Prepare executive status reports, decision materials, project updates, and recommendations for leadership.
- Support human-centered design and user feedback activities to improve system usability, accessibility, and user adoption.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Information Systems, Public Administration, Criminal Justice, Business, or a related field. Additional relevant experience may substitute for education on a year-for-year basis.
- Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible project management experience.
- At least 5 years of experience leading large, complex technology implementations involving multiple vendors and stakeholder groups.
- Demonstrated experience managing multi-year project schedules.
- Experience leading enterprise system replacement initiatives involving data migration and organizational change management.
- Strong project governance, planning, budgeting, scheduling, risk management, and reporting skills.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder facilitation, conflict resolution, and executive engagement abilities.
- Ability to pass a criminal background check.
Preferred Qualifications
- PMP, PgMP, or an equivalent project/program management certification.
- Agile and change management certifications.
- Experience with Waterfall project management methodology.
- Experience combining Waterfall governance and procurement controls with Agile solution delivery.
- Experience implementing case management systems for courts, probation, parole, corrections, or other criminal justice agencies.
- Experience implementing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions or configurable SaaS platforms in the public sector.
- Experience managing geographically distributed stakeholders across urban and rural locations.
Key Skills
- Strategic Project and Program Management
- Enterprise System Replacement and Modernization
- Project Governance and Executive Reporting
- Vendor and Procurement Management
- Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid Methodologies
- Data Migration, Testing, and Implementation
- Risk, Issue, and Dependency Management
- Stakeholder Engagement and Consensus Building
- Organizational Change Management and Training
- Legislative, Regulatory, and Policy Compliance
- Benefits Realization and Performance Measurement
- Executive Decision Support and Escalation Management
Working Conditions
- This is a hybrid position based in Denver, Colorado.
- Occasional work outside normal business hours may be necessary during go-live and cutover activities.