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Complete Description:

*local candidates strongly preferred

*ONLY in-person interviews will be conducted, NO Skype, NO exceptions

*contract will likely be extended beyond 5/31/15

*Candidates MUST be eligible to be hired directly by the Commonwealth without sponsorship

The SCC has engaged a vendor to implement a complex, multi-year, enterprise-wide IT project. The PM will report directly to the SCC’s Chief Technology Officer & will manage the project in partnership with the vendor's PM.

The Project Manager 5 will be responsible for the following:

• Following standard project management industry practices, such as the Project Management Institute’s framework

• Understanding and ensuring the delivery of the business and technical objectives of the project

• Leading and managing the efforts of IT staff, business staff, and vendors, and serving as a liaison to external stakeholders; building an effective team with representatives from each of these areas

• Working with the vendor partner to ensure the project meets business requirements and achieves milestones according to agreed upon schedule, cost and scope

• Ensuring that deliverables comply with specifications, policies, regulations and standards

• Monitoring, tracking, and reporting all project risks, issues, and potential changes to scope, schedule, cost, or quality

• Participating in vendor negotiations, preparing procurement documentation and managing vendor contracts

• Creating and managing project plans and schedules, managing the project budget, identifying staffing or technical resource needs, project status reporting, and facilitation of deliverable review and approval – project will not have a Project Coordinator

Required Skill Set:

• 15 or more years of information technology project management experience

• Demonstrated and advanced experience in managing complex, enterprise-wide information technology-based projects

• Demonstrated and advanced understanding of project management methodologies

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with Commission IT and business staff, vendor partners and the general public

• Critical thinking and advanced problem-solving skills and abilities

• In-depth knowledge of and extensive experience with traditional systems development life cycle and related project documentation

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to envision the big picture, while providing meticulous attention to detail

• Ability to balance multiple tasks simultaneously and to work independently

• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project

• Active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

Desirable Skill Set:

• Graduation from a four year college or university with major course work in Computer Science, Management or Systems Software

• Experience with implementing enterprise-wide document management and workflow systems

• Experience with implementing enterprise-wide business process improvement

• Experience with replacing a legacy mainframe environment with a server-based environment

• Experience managing large-scale software development with these technologies:  Sharepoint, K2 Blackpearl, Visio, Oracle, SQL Server, .Net Framework

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