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Detailed Job Description:

• Documented experience in successfully managing IT projects (full project lifecycle) 
• Proven record of delivery project on time and on budget 
• Experience in managing IT projects in a government environment 
• Managing of IT Agile development projects
• Experience performing scope management for projects, including a disciplined change control
• Experience performing issues management across multiple departments 
• Experience creating and executing implementation plans 
• Experience in delivering excellent verbal and written communication with clients and technical staff 
• Experience in managing data integration based projects 
• Preference in understanding Data Architecture and approaches 
• Preference will be given to candidates with PMP or other certification 
• Understanding of SEI Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
• IT Project Management experience 
• Experience working in a formal PMO environment

Job Responsibilities:

• 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 stakeholdersparticularly the project sponsors, project team members, program managers, and MDOT/DTMB management, on the status of the project, using appropriate communication methods.
• Accountable for efficient and effective ongoing communication with the vendor throughout the project lifecycle.
• Responsible for providing leadership and fostering collaborative participation between the technical and business teams by obtaining consensus and gaining commitment. Advocates as necessary to ensure project success.
• 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 project health and quality by adhering to established quality and compliance processes.
• 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 actively evaluating the project to anticipate, identify, evaluate, and mitigate project risks and issues. Escalates risks and issues when needed.
• 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 project team adherence to information governance activities.
• Responsible for understanding project interdependencies and ensuring appropriate and timely discussions and actions occur when a project change may have an impact.
• Responsible for completion of the project tailoring process to determine the PMM and SEM deliverables for the project.
• Responsible for following the project Notice of Decision procedure for all major project decisionsincluding a Build vs. Buy decision.
• 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.
• Functions as the Scrum Master for MDOT Agile projects, facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint demos, and sprint retrospectives