Senior Project Manager
IntegrateUs LLC ·Austin, TXClosing in
$85 - $95 Hourly
Term:Full timeWork:Remote
Type:EmployeeContract
We are looking for a Full-time contractor or employee for a Senior Project Manager role at one of our client site.
Duties:
Duties:
• Provides overall leadership, direction, and oversight of communications and status requests for all aspects of the integrated projects and sub-projects
• Enforces Committee-established project roles and responsibilities.
• Identifies and plans for needed resources.
• Assists with and manages project and timelines, including the sequence and cadence.
• In coordination with any assigned HHS employee or contractor, facilitates workgroups to:
o Gather comprehensive, detailed requirements and associated documentation for the MIS solicitation,
o Negotiate terms with the current MIS contractor that enable a clear, defensible solicitation,
o Determine the solicitation type and develop a clear, defensible solicitation,
o Identify issues with user community states and ITOs and resolve them timely,
o Identify issues with USDA FNS and resolve them timely,
o Coordinate EBT to MIS interface development milestones, timelines, and statement of work to include user testing,
o Identify grocer readiness milestones and track progress, escalate risks, and
o Determine the ideal consortium structure, including governance.
• Develops, maintains, stores and archives project plans, artifacts, and required documentation for each contract, project, and subproject in coordination with the project team.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for executive project communications and status reporting.
• Coordinates executive stakeholder participation in project planning, execution, change control, and closeout, maximizing involvement during each.
• Performs risk management, to include identifying and documenting risks, and recommending and employing risk mitigation strategies.
• Performs other duties as assigned as required to complete each project.
Examples of Work Products Could Include:
• Develop a project plan for each project and subproject in the portfolio, with a focus on constraints, roles, and responsibilities, within the existing timeline
• Develop a tool for monitoring project and procurement risks and escalating to the WIC MIS/EBT executive steering committee (ESC).
• Develop a tool for managing the timeline and escalating potential schedule delays and proposed mitigation strategies.
• Develop, with ESC input, a work plan for completing all tasks and producing all deliverables on time.
• Develop, with ESC input, a plan to communicate with and obtain input from stakeholders including grocers, user community members and the Texas Legislature.
• Develop a template for and deliver weekly status reports.
Skills(Required):
Skills(Required):
- Developing clear, concise project documentation.
- Team management through team meetings, task assignment, mentoring, facilitation and training.
- Progress monitoring and use of risk management practices.
- Ability to keep leadership informed on project issues and progress.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Speed to decision in a complex, large organization
- Effective management of resources in a mixed functional and matrixed project environment.
- Expert problem resolution skills.
- Comprehensive experience with Waterfall and Agile project management lifecycles (analysis and planning to development and deployment/implementation)
- Experience with Microsoft Project, Office, Visio, and dashboard tools, such as PowerBI, Tableau.
- Experience with managing multiple competing priorities, conflict management, and negotiation/facilitation
Skills(Preferred):
- Experience leading highly complex strategic transformation and business-process re-engineering efforts
- Experience in highly complex IT procurements with a Texas state agency.
- Experience managing matrixed organizational and cross-divisional initiatives.
- Experience managing projects for a Health and Human Services agency
- Experience with WIC technology ecosystem
- Experience with projects in a Microsoft Dynamics/Azure Environment,