Position Title: Project Manager Expert
Department: IT Operations
Location(s): Omaha, NE

Purpose:

The Expert Project Manager (PM) is responsible for planning, leading, organizing, and motivating agile and hybrid project teams with a focus on achieving business result

Responsibilities:

• Project Planning and Management: Define project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value; organize and lead project status and working meetings; prepare and distribute progress reports; manage risks and issues; correct deviations from plans; and perform delivery planning and operational readiness for assigned projects.

• Project Team Management: Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, remove roadblocks to their work; leverage organizational resources to improve capacity for project work; and mentoring and developing team members; facilitate the efficient use of resources across multiple projects and monitor trends to ensure use aligns with strategic goal.

• Product Owner Support: Support the Product Owner in managing customer expectations for project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications, and help with an effective system of project governance

• Communication and Documentation: Keeping stakeholders informed, resolving issues, and maintaining project documentation utilizing project management tools

• Process Management and Improvement: Champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Project Management

• Team Building: Promote empowerment of the team, ensure that each team member is fully engaged in the project and making a meaningful contribution, and encourage a sustainable pace with high-levels of quality for the team

• Vendor Management: Monitor and report on vendor performance metrics. Ensuring vendors are delivering against a specific contract’s deliverables.

Experience, Education, Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher

• At least 7 years of medium to large-scale project experience in a project management or similar role

• At least 7 to 10 years of strong experience with project or program planning, resource planning, work plan development, and project management processes

• Preferred Credentials and Experience

• PMP certification

• Demonstrated prior experience with SCRUM/Agile, blended methodologies at the enterprise-level of an organization.

• Experience working within the public sector, specifically health and human services agencies

• Organizational change management experience