Project Manager IV

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Functional

Title:

Project Manager IV

Job Title:

Project Manager IV

Agency:
Health & Human Services Comm

Department:
Purchasing - Consolidated 2

Posting Number: 13174

Closing Date: 02/05/2026

Posting Audience:
Internal and External

Occupational Category:
Business and Financial Operations

Salary Group: TEXAS-B-26

Salary Range: $6,377.50 - $8,300.00

Pay Frequency:
Monthly

Shift: Day

Additional

Shift: Days (First)

Telework:

Travel:

Regular/Temporary:
Regular

Full Time/Part Time:
Full time

FLSA Exempt/Non-Exempt:
Exempt

Facility

Location:

Job Location City: AUSTIN

Job Location Address: 1100 W 49TH ST (DHSB)

Other Locations:

MOS Codes: ,KX,1D7X1,32EX,3D0X4,611X,612X,63A,63AX,641X,712X,8K000,BU,CE,EA,SEI
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Job Description:

Procurement and Contracting Services is looking for a Project Manager IV.

The Project Manager IV reports to the Director of Major Procurement Support (MPS) within the Procurement and Contracting Services (PCS) Division and performs advanced (senior-level) project management and procurement analysis work initiating and conducting multi-agency or enterprise-level procurement projects within HHSC and DSHS.

This work involves assuring major procurement projects are delivered on time, within budget, and in alignment with agency, state, and enterprise project management and procurement methodologies. The PM4 leads the planning, initiation, and execution of large-scale or complex procurement projects, including development of solicitation strategies, requirements documentation, and evaluation plans.

Monitors progress, manages risks, and ensures that procurement deliverables such as Requests for Offers (RFOs), Requests for Proposals (RFPs) Statements of Work (SOWs), evaluation criteria, and contract documents meet quality standards and comply with applicable procurement rules and policies.

Contributes to the development and refinement of procurement-related project management policies, procedures, templates, and guidelines, and provides subject matter expertise in contract management practices.

Establishes evaluation criteria, cost estimates, and performance metrics to assess procurement project outcomes and ensure alignment with defined goals and objectives.

Represents the agency in executive-level briefings, oversight discussions, vendor negotiations, and inter-agency or legislative consultations on procurement project activities.

Essential Job Functions:

Attends work on a regular and predictable schedule in accordance with agency leave policy and performs other duties as assigned.

1. Provides advanced (senior-level) project management support. Project management involves the full spectrum of industry-accepted principles of project management including initiation, planning, execution, control, and closing assigned projects and subsidiary components.

These activities include, but are not limited to, defining and managing scope and customer expectations; work breakdown structures; detailed Microsoft project schedules; resource plans; project plans; communications plans; budgets and cost tracking; presentations and briefings; metrics reporting; risk / issues and associated mitigation activities; quality control; change management processes; customer acceptance; lessons learned; and archiving project documentation.

Coordinates multiple multi-million-dollar projects and oversees the planning, initiation and development of the project deliverables, including cost estimates and projections.

Identifies potential project risks and issues, and designs strategies to mitigate or avoid them.

Directs, develops, and evaluates projects utilizing accepted project management methodologies. (30%)

2. Gathers and validates requirements for assembling Request for Offers (RFO's), Requests for Proposals (RFPs), Statements of Work (SOW),and develops Attachments and Exhibits as part of major procurements development.

Interprets and converts high-level business, technical, financial, legal and other stakeholder requirements into procurement requirements at an appropriate level of detail and categorization to complete documentation according to standard templates, using clear, concrete, and concise language.

Interprets new and changing business requirements to determine the impact on the solution and propose creative enhancements and changes to meet these new requirements. (20%)

3. Develops and implements plans to communicate and explain project methodology and processes to interested groups and team members.

Creates documentation…