Short Description:

Client is seeking a hands-on Senior Project Management Officer to manage Project Schedule, support organizational change management including training development and delivery.

Complete Description:

The specific responsibilities include:

· The program manager is responsible for creating and onboarding project teams, integrating them into the organization and providing a clear vision of the product. Assist agile teams in efficient implementation and use of AzureDevOps (ADO) to automatically measure and report quality and performance measures to the Program’s Portal.

· Facilitates communication and information exchange between external groups and the project team. They also monitor project progress, provide timely feedback, and drive a culture of agility and learning.

· Define project scope, goals, and deliverable that support milestones in collaboration with Business, senior management and stakeholders

· Develop detailed project plans, communication documents, and manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders

· Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path related to OCM and training

· Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools

· Keep all Parties on Track and Informed: Manage daily team meetings to capture updates on the progress of the project, address potential roadblocks, and ensure that the project is on track.

· Manage a central repository of milestones identified by multiple workstream leads, provide status and escalate risks

· Maintain a risk and issues registry and track progress

· Manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans

· Provide timely metrics and audit outcomes to gauge progress towards quality objectives.

· Promote Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) processes to identify and remove project barriers.

Skills:

· Conveying technical and functional concepts for a specific technical specialty. Required 5 Years

· Preparing complex technical documentation. Required 11 Years

· Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience. Required 15 Years

· Hands on experience with Azure Dev Ops or JIRA, creating Queries, Dashboards, alerts and data export. Required 3 Years

· Experience with managing training content development and/or delivery. Required 3 Years

· Active Certified Scrum master (Scrum Alliance) or Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (PMI) equivalent certification. Required

· Experience leading OCM activities for new technology implementation. Required 3 Years

· Experience with large scale IT Projects. Required 11 Years

· Experience in Human Services or Child Welfare sector. Highly desired 2 Years

· Project Management Professional Certification. Highly desired

· Hands on MS Project Schedule development skills including tracking dependencies, milestones, resources, and critical path. Required 7 Years

· Hands on Excel and PowerPoint skills to capture, analyze and report data points and progress updates. Required 7 Years

· Hand-on MS Visio experience documenting Process Flow Chart. Required 5 Years

· Hands on experience producing project artifacts such as a Project Plan , Risk Management plan etc. Required 7 Years

· Professional communication both written and verbal. Required 11 Years