The Role
Senior IT Project Manager supporting Michigan Department of Treasury and the Michigan Gaming Control Board. Manages budgets, schedules, scope, risks, issues, change requests, resources, vendors, contracts, and project communications. Leads technical and business stakeholders across a multi-vendor environment, oversees integration schedules, ensures compliance with project management and systems engineering methodologies, and delivers projects on time and within budget. The role follows a hybrid schedule with two days onsite and three days remote.
Summary Generated by Built In
Top Skills & Years of Experience:
- 7+ years of experience establishing and maintaining project budgets, schedules, change requests, risk and issue logs.
- 5+ years of experience handling variety of stakeholders and system owners from other departments.
- 5+ years of developing and maintaining detailed project integration schedules.
- 3+ years of experience with ADA compliance experience.
- 3+ years of file transfer service experience.
- Clear and concise written and verbal communication is crucial to success and productivity in this role
Please see the job description attached.
Project Manager – PMO Supporting Department of Treasury and Michigan Gaming Control Board
This position is for a Senior Project Manager (PM3) to assist the State of Michigan Project Management Office supporting Michigan Department of Treasury with a multi-year high priority project. This role, as part of the DTMB Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO), works closely with DTMB Agency Services technical teams as well as with agency executives/stakeholders in the delivery of various projects for Michigan Department of Treasury.
The candidate must be comfortable working in a fast paced, multi-vendor deployment supporting a hybrid workforce (combination of on-site and remote work) at all levels of the organization. Applicants should possess exceptional communication and follow up skills along with significant experience in formal IT project management. This position requires the PM to be working in person for 2 days a week and 3 days remote.
Basic Duties:
• Utilize the State of Michigan’s Project Portfolio Management Tool (Clarity) to prepare project schedules, assign resources and management budgets.
• Prepare information for presentations geared to various audiences ranging from executives, managers and project team members.
• Accountable for monitoring, controlling, and communicating project progress by actively managing the cost, schedule, scope, resources, quality, and risks.
• Accountable and responsible for clear, timely, and accurate communications with stakeholders, particularly the project sponsors, project team members, program managers, and MGCB/DTMB management, on the status of the project, using appropriate communication methods.
• Responsible for providing leadership and fostering collaborative participation between the technical and business teams by obtaining consensus and gaining commitment.
• Responsible for working with the project team members to develop and maintain the following key SUITE Project Management Methodology (PMM) deliverables throughout the project lifecycle:
• Project Charter - Project Schedule – Project Budget - Communication Plan - Project Status Report - Risk and Issue Management Plans - Change Requests - Project Closedown Summary
• Responsible for managing interfaces related communication with other agencies
• Responsible for ensuring the project adheres to the SUITE PMM and System Engineering Methodology (SEM), including appropriate and timely transitions through the stages and phases of the project lifecycle.
• Responsible for facilitating and enforcing the Change Management process (Change Requests) when the project deviates from the approved scope, schedule, or budget. This includes ensuring all Change Requests have appropriate approval before action is taken or information is updated.
• Responsible for creating project Corrective Action Plans (CAP) when necessary for projects in yellow or red status.
• Responsible for understanding the project benefits and the impact of change requests to the benefits business cases. Responsible for ensuring related project artifacts are updated accordingly.
• Responsible for reviewing and understanding vendor contracts to actively manage the vendor deliverables and adherence to the vendor deliverable approval procedure.
• Facilitates the interactions among stakeholders by clarifying the expectations of all participants and ensuring all deliverables are assigned, reviewed, and completed.
Qualifications
Required/Desired Experience
In-depth knowledge of and experience in IT project management, including industry standards and best practices. Required 7 years
Proven record for delivering projects on time and on budget in a formal project manager role Required 7 years
Experience establishing and maintaining project budgets, schedules, change requests, risk and issue logs Required 7 years
Experience developing and delivering project status Required 7 years
Experience using project portfolio management systems and tools (eg.) Clarity Required 5 years
Advanced working knowledge of MSProject
Required
5 years
Experience handling variety of stakeholders and system owners from other departments.
Required
5 years
Oversee Technical Teams with system architecture and integration across SaaS solutions. Required 5 years
Experience providing project management services for IT Projects involving Commercial Off the Shelf Technology (COTS) Required 5 years
Experience managing multi-vendor environment in a government environment.
Required
5 years
Developed and maintained detailed project integration schedules. Required 5 years
Prior Developer/Senior Technical Project Management experience. Required 5 years
Scrum Master Certified Highly Desired 5 years
Plan of Action and Milestones (POAM) Required 5 years
Possession of a Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification. Highly Desired 3 years
ADA Compliance Experience Highly Desired 3 years
File Transfer Service Experience Highly Desired 3 years
RequirementsRequired Skills
Skill Type
Skill Name
CertificationEducationLicenseOtherSkill
7+ years of experience establishing and maintaining project budgets, schedules, change requests, risk and issue logs.
CertificationEducationLicenseOtherSkill
5+ years of experience handling variety of stakeholders and system owners from other departments.
CertificationEducationLicenseOtherSkill
5+ years of developing and maintaining detailed project integration schedules.
CertificationEducationLicenseOtherSkill
3+ years of experience with ADA compliance experience.
CertificationEducationLicenseOtherSkill
3+ years of file transfer service experience.
There are currently no preferred skills to display. Please review job description
Skills Required
- 7+ years of in-depth IT project management experience, including industry standards and best practices
- 7+ years delivering projects on time and on budget in a formal project manager role
- 7+ years establishing and maintaining project budgets, schedules, change requests, risk logs, and issue logs
- 7+ years developing and delivering project status reporting
- 5+ years using project portfolio management systems and tools such as Clarity
- 5+ years of advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Project
- 5+ years handling diverse stakeholders and system owners from other departments
- 5+ years overseeing technical teams with system architecture and integration across SaaS solutions
- 5+ years providing project management services for IT projects involving commercial off-the-shelf technology
- 5+ years managing multi-vendor environments in a government environment
- 5+ years developing and maintaining detailed project integration schedules
- 5+ years of prior developer or senior technical project management experience
- 5+ years of Plan of Action and Milestones experience
- Scrum Master certification with 5 years of experience
- Project Management Professional certification with 3 years of experience
- 3+ years of ADA compliance experience
- 3+ years of file transfer service experience
- Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
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The Company
What We Do
Novalink Solutions LLC is a global consulting, engineering, and AI product development company specializing in information technology and telecommunications. They provide AI-powered products, automation platforms, intelligent workflow systems, IT consulting, managed engineering, and staff augmentation services.
