Overview:We are currently seeking a
Project Manager.
Primary Responsibilities Include (but are not limited to):- Responsible for planning, coordinating, organizing, and managing all phases of the project.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, resource assignments, and budgets.
- Manage project scope, schedule, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and change requests.
- Coordinate project activities among business stakeholders, vendors, technical teams, infrastructure, security, and executive leadership.
- Facilitate project meetings, steering committee meetings, status meetings, and executive briefings.
- Monitor vendor performance and ensure contractual deliverables are completed on time and meet quality expectations.
- Track project budget, invoices, procurement activities, and contract deliverables.
- Prepare weekly and monthly project status reports and communicate project health to management.
- Ensure compliance with Commonwealth of Kentucky, CHFS, DHSS, and OATS project management standards and SDLC processes.
- Coordinate release planning, testing activities, production deployments, and post-implementation support.
- Proactively identify and mitigate project risks and resolve issues before they impact the project schedule.
Required QualificationsCandidates must have:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience managing large-scale Information Technology projects.
- Experience managing Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid software development projects.
- Experience facilitating business requirements sessions with executive leadership and business users.
- Experience writing Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Functional Requirements, Use Cases, User Stories, and Process Flow diagrams.
- Experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, risks, issues, and change management.
- Experience coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities.
- Experience managing software vendors and contractual deliverables.
- Experience reviewing technical and functional documentation.
- Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills.
- Experience using Microsoft Project, Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, ServiceNow, or similar project management and work management tools.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively with business and technical teams.
- Experience working with executive leadership and cross-functional teams.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience managing Digital Transformation initiatives.
- Experience implementing Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) processes.
- Prior experience supporting Commonwealth of Kentucky or other State Government agencies.
- Prior experience supporting public health or healthcare information systems.
- Experience managing projects involving vendor-developed cloud solutions and Software's as a Service (SaaS).
Skills:Application Lifecycle Management,public health,Healthcare Information Systems,Information Technology,IT,Project Management,User Acceptance Testing,Agile,Waterfall,Hybrid,Microsoft Applications,Azure,DevOps,Jira,ServiceNow
