Senior Project Manager

Summary

Join Capio Group as a Senior Project Manager and lead IT services for a major modernization project. This full-time, remote position offers a competitive salary ($130,000-$145,000) and excellent benefits. You will manage project efforts, advise client management, and lead a team of SMEs. Responsibilities include project communication, schedule and resource management, scope and change control, risk and issue management, and knowledge transfer. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in project management, particularly within the public sector, and holds a PMP certification.

Requirements

• Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of seven (7) years of experience applying PM principles, methods, techniques, and tools
• Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of three (3) years of experience as a PM implementing an IT project for a federal, state, or local government entity
• Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of two (2) years of experience with drafting and revising the State of California Department of Technology’s Project Approval Lifecycle (PAL) documentation
• Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of three (3) years of experience of schedule management and Microsoft (MS) Project
• Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of three (3) years of risk management experience
• Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of two (2) years of experience with business process review and gap analysis
• Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of one (1) year of experience leading Agile ceremonies using Agile tools, e.g., JIRA or equivalent technologies
• Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of two (2) years of experience with user administration and document organization in a project sharing site, (e.g. SharePoint or equivalent technologies)
• Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of two (2) years of experience on a single IT project evaluating, analyzing and compiling multiple vendors’ schedules into one single schedule
• Must possess a Bachelor’s degree
• A valid *Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate issued by the Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of two (2) years of experience on a large-scale business system modernization project
• Within the last ten (10) years, must have a minimum of one (1) year of experience applying Agile SCRUM Project Management methodologies to IT projects
• Within the last ten (10) years, must provide two (2) references for projects completed while providing project management services to projects with $10 million value or higher, and include planning, design, development, and implementation phases. The two (2) resource references should be from a senior manager level who could verify work performed

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with all project stakeholders and staff
• Facilitate weekly status meetings and document action items with the Project Team, stakeholders, and technical staff
• Create and/or update project charter and project plans
• Update and provide Project Status Reports
• Coordinate and update all required PAL documents
• Prepare for upcoming activities within the project: Obtaining authorization from stakeholders
• Analyzing and presenting business needs and feasibility to stakeholders
• Coordinate and present to regular Executive Steering Committee meetings
• Present ad hoc general project status updates to stakeholders
• Utilize Microsoft Teams/SharePoint to store and present key information to the clients Management team, stakeholders, and Project Team
• Develop and maintain the project schedule (using MS Project), which includes the consolidation of project schedules from various sources
• Manage day-to-day project work efforts
• Assess and adjust resource load for project activities
• Define the sequence of project activities
• Establish schedule maintenance and reporting
• Development of ad hoc hypothetical scenarios for project schedule changes
• Validate and control scope through: Collecting requested changes to scope and requirements as a result of requirement traceability completed by vendors, and leading discussions to determine scope change
• Performing integrated change control
• Conducting change configuration tasks for project documents
• Delivering Monthly Reports including proposed changes that may impact the scope
• Manage risk response planning, including identify and lead mitigation meetings to identify mitigations for risks, track the approved mitigation and assist in updating Risk Register
• Lead risk meetings to discuss and determine risk response
• Assist in the creation of tools for the management and resolution of issues. Conduct meetings as needed to ensure any impediments are resolved expeditiously
• Prepare Risk Mitigation Plan
• Knowledge transfer plan that contains: High level task roadmap
• Schedule for knowledge transfer
• Inventory of what areas knowledge transfer will cover with names
• List of contractor lead personnel for knowledge transfer and clients staff to be trained (a mapping of resources to be trained)
• A process to validate that knowledge transfer met its objectives
• Knowledge transfer execution status and signoff document. List all knowledge transfer areas and include its completion status
• Provide summary of knowledge transfer validation and results
• Knowledge transfer artifacts (all documents). List all knowledge transfer training documentation and their purpose
• Include all training documentation (a link to a shared folder)
• Lessons-learned

Preferred Qualifications

• Possession of a Master’s degree
• Maintains active certification as an Agile Certified Practitioner through the PMI

Benefits

• Salary: $130,000 - $145,000
• Flexible workplace
• Great work-life balance