Project Manager- Apply only Wisconsin resident

Information Resource group • Madison, WI

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

This senior, business-focused Project Manager role manages and coordinates project management activities for agency priority initiatives and projects. The role applies predictive, adaptive, or hybrid project management methodologies and tools to deliver projects, and advises divisional leadership, division administrators, and agency leaders on department-wide or division-specific priority issues. The Project Manager manages technical and organizational change management workstreams and helps ensure a smooth transition to operational delivery units. The position requires strong communication with internal and external customers, project team members, stakeholders, and executives. The Project Manager also works with executive leadership to develop departmental strategy and define strategic initiatives, and partners with business sponsors, IT senior management, and other leaders to align priorities and resolve complex technical and non-technical problems. The role is business-focused rather than technical and is based in Madison, Wisconsin, with hybrid work. Applicants must be Wisconsin residents. This is a six-month contract with the possibility of extensions.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience; the posting also specifies 10 or more years of project management experience.
• Project management certification, such as PMP; PMP is also listed as highly preferred.
• Successful experience in team building, managing project timelines and budgets, and producing high-quality project artifacts such as charters and project plans.
• Expert knowledge of business objectives and the ability to work with multiple stakeholders to solve complex problems.
• Ability to manage a project or project subset with up to ten staff members.
• Increasing project management accountability and assignment complexity, including the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects across business, vendor, organizational change management, and technology workstreams.
• Demonstrated success delivering projects using adaptive, hybrid, and predictive project management methodologies, including expertise with stage-gate governance.
• Demonstrated ability to complete projects with measurable success against KPIs defined with business or program areas at project outset, meeting or surpassing desired outcomes.
• Successfully led at least two large projects as a project manager through the full project life cycle; each project had a $1 million budget and lasted 18 months or longer.
• Excellent communication skills and a high degree of emotional intelligence to work effectively with a broad spectrum of business leaders.
• Must be a Wisconsin resident.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated experience using the critical path method in project delivery.
• PMP certification.
• Experience with advanced analytics.
• Change management experience.
• MS Project experience.

Responsibilities

• Help the executive leadership team develop a departmental strategy and define strategic initiatives based on that strategy.
• Partner with the executive team, business sponsors, IT senior management, and other team leaders to ensure project priorities are understood and managed, and to resolve complex technical and non-technical problems.
• Facilitate business-group discussions professionally in decision-making environments.
• Assemble and manage business-focused working teams.
• Track key project milestones and adjust project plans and resources to meet customer needs.
• Research new technology and develop business cases to support enterprise-wide business intelligence solutions.
• Manage project workstreams, including business, vendor, organizational change management, and technology workstreams, and support transitions to operational delivery units.
• Manage projects through the full project management life cycle, from initiation through closeout, and measure outcomes against agreed-upon KPIs.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed