Senior Project Manager

Data Staff, Inc is seeking a Senior Project Manager for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients located in Raleigh, NC.

* This position is hybrid

• Work with multiple internal and external stakeholders and selected vendor(s) to analyze, plan, and implement the new solution
• Work with senior-level business executives, IT personnel, business program resources and Vendor staff to execute project requirements and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Manage the day-to-day activities for the project and complete all input to the Project Management (Touchdown) system as needed.
• Working with personnel within the team and the Information Technology team to develop necessary project management, change management, risk management, rollout, and training plans. To the extent possible, integrate this project into the existing governance processes to ensure alignment of priorities and minimal disruption to ongoing operations and other required deliverables
• Developing and maintaining detailed project schedule, budget and monitoring expenditures
• Developing and maintaining all required project management artifacts following the PMBOK guidelines
• Managing scope, resources, timelines, costs/budget, quality, communication, and procurements to meet the goals.
• Leading and performing hands-on analysis of the business and technical environments, and writing procurement documents
• Working with vendors to manage deliverables to ensure that all the milestones are met
• Ensuring that project plans and schedules are established and maintained, ensuring that deliverables are completed timely and accurately
• Establishing project governance, conducting formal presentations, coordinating with all project stakeholders and ensure that appropriate project controls are instituted
• Serving as an IT project liaison to the business client
• Working with business stakeholders to develop necessary project management, change management, risk management, rollout, and training plans
• Working with the technical team to ensure technical readiness during implementation activities
• Developing and maintaining all required State CIO project documentation

• Results-oriented individual with a very strong work ethic
• Must be able to demonstrate excellent IT Project Management, negotiation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Capable of leading effective project meetings that are tailored to the audience
• Ability to create simple to complex project plans, timelines and work breakdown structures using project management tools
• Must have proficiency in project management, agile, scrum, and Kanban software tools
• Must have strategic planning skills with good understanding of roadmap development.
• Ability to write and present effective project materials, including presentations and status reports
• Ability to work effectively with all levels of staff, clients and other IT personnel
• Proven experience with working collaboratively with business/program partners
• Ability to effectively identify and resolve system or business process/project issues
• Ability to build, influence, lead and motivate effective teams towards end results
• Flexibility, adaptability, and ability to work in a high-demand dynamic environment
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including development of project
• Must have experience writing Procurement documents (RFP/RFQ) and technical artifacts
• Experience as a Project Manager on a cloud-based implementation project is a plus
• Candidate with PMP Certification (preferred). Agile/Scrum Master certification is a plus
• Experience managing or supervising legacy system upgrade and/or replacement projects
• Experience collaborating with State and Local Government
• Knowledge of Public Health Programs is preferred
• Experience planning and managing data conversion activities
• Experience building rollout plans

• 8 Years - Project management experience, preferably with large, complex automation implementation efforts
• 8 Years - Demonstrated Project Management experience on system deployments with multiple clients.
• 8 Years - Proven track record of delivering projects and work streams with aggressive timelines and deliver within scope, budget and schedule
• 8 Years - Objective decision-making ability based on strategic objectives priority, business performance analysis and resource availability.
• 7 Years - Hands on experience managing project risk, cost, schedule, quality, testing, and communications.
• 3 Years - Strong leadership, organizational, interpersonal and time management skills.
• 3 Years - Demonstrated oral and written communication and presentation skills.
• 7 Years - Solid work experience with project management tools (e.g. Microsoft Project)
• 7 years - Experience with MS Office and Share Point
• 5 Years - Demonstrated experience with both Waterfall and Agile Projects
• 8 Years - Demonstrated experience with vendor management on a large IT project/system implementation
• 8 Years - Demonstrate technical architecture/infrastructure…