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• Post :- 18th Aug 2021

The State of MN, MDH, is looking for a Project Manager for a 1 year contract in St. Paul. The details are below. Please let me know if you have anyone that may be interested.

 

 

Sample Tasks

•             Work with the business sponsor and project team members to manage and account for accomplishing the project’s stated objectives, providing strategic leadership with a focus on outcomes.

•             Identify clear and attainable project objectives, assist with building the project requirements, and manage the triple constraint for projects, which is cost, time, and scope.

•             Drive for results and accountability of business needs.

•             Leverage strong Interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, facilitate, and enhance performance within a cross-functional environment.

•             Be decisive in resolving business problems, making decisions, and identifying priorities.

•             Support the Business Analyst with alternatives analysis, and prepare and deliver recommendations to project leadership for the OMC Registry implementation and the Seed to Sale initiative.

•             Work closely with business stakeholders and the Business Analyst to manage the delivery of future state business needs (i.e., workflows, requirements, test scenarios, etc).

•             Create operations and maintenance plan for OMC Registry. 

•             In partnership with the vendor project manager, provide a project plan with milestones for completion of all major tasks as an output from the discovery phase.

•             Create a risk register and issues log to be maintained throughout the project. 

•             Conduct weekly (or more frequent) check-in meetings with the business sponsor and project team members to provide updates on the project plan and discuss any issues and/or ideas that may positively or negatively impact the deliverables.

•             Provide Project Integration Management (Project plan development, execution, and change control).

•             Provide Project Scope Management (Project initiation, scope planning, scope definition) as required or directed.

•             Provide Project Time Management (Schedule development and control).

•             Provide Project Quality Control (Quality Planning, Quality Assurance, and Quality Control) as required or directed.

•             Provide Project Communications Management (Communications planning, information distribution, performance reporting, and project status).

•             Provide Project Risk Management (Risk Identification, risk quantification, risk response development, and risk response control).

•             Provide Project Vendor Management (contract implementation and monitoring in partnership with the MNIT MDH Procurement Manager).

•             Serve as a strong leader providing advice and assistance and reviewing the work of MNIT, the OMC business and vendor staff comprising the project team as required or directed.

•             Provide knowledge transfer to State staff.

•             Perform other related duties as assigned.

 

(Minimum Qualifications and Desired Skills on next page)

Minimum Qualifications

•             Seven (7) years of experience in Program/Project management role(s).

•             Four (4) years of experience as a Senior Project Manager.

•             Three (3) years of project management experience with full product lifecycle.

•             One (1) year of combined experience with gathering and documenting business requirements.

 

Desired Skills

•             PMP certification through PMI.

•             Experience as a Project Manager for multi-year enterprise category project(s).

•             Experience working in a government or non-profit environment.

•             Experience working with business stakeholders within a cross-functional matrix environment.

•             At least an intermediate level of proficiency with MS Project, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and SharePoint with experience presenting to stakeholders and/or Senior Leadership.

•             Experience managing software development project(s) using the Agile Methodology.

•             At least an intermediate level of proficiency with Jira and MS Teams.

•             Experience with creating procurement documents and contract initiation and management.

•             Experience with custom developed systems, COTS, and SaaS solutions.