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• Post :- 8th Jan 2024

We are currently recruiting for a Project Manager to be assigned to the Maine Department of Labor’s (MDOL) current initiative to create and implement a benefits program to execute the provisions of The Paid Family Medical Leave (PFML) Law, PL 2023 Chapter 412. The Project Manager will work closely with MDOL staff to ensure that Maine’s first Paid Family and Medical Leave Program is in place by including appropriate partners, staffing, systems, rules, and procedures. The success of this initiative is of critical importance to the MDOL, the Project Management Office and the State of Maine. 

Key Responsibilities:

Specific responsibilities of the resource 

Project Management 

* Deliver results for large sized project initiatives within established timeframes and quality measures. 

* Prepare new or remediated project assets that may be managed by an executing PM.

* Direct resources on assigned projects and ensure clarity of project roles and responsibilities.

* Identify project stakeholders and manage communication with the project stakeholders.

* Consult with business leaders to translate a project idea into a defined project with goals, objectives, and scope. 

* Identify resources needed, negotiates with people managers as required to lead project teams, ensuring clarity of project roles and responsibilities, so that all project plans are completed within defined timeframes, meeting objectives and strategic goals. 

* Develop and implement communication and reporting mechanisms to manage issues, risks, and timely delivery of initiative results. Translates project goals/objectives into a defined future state and project success measures that can be understood by project stakeholders, project team and others. 

* Ensure business needs and objectives are effectively captured in functional and non-functional business requirements for a system and/or process/workflow.

Description of Duties:  The Project Management Office is looking for individuals to join the PMO as a resource to be assigned as needed. Assignment can be with any department within the state of Maine, dependent on need. Project Managers support a broad portfolio of Maine’s strategic initiatives, supporting all sixteen agencies under the Executive Branch. As a member of the Project Management Team, you will have the opportunity to work with a dynamic group of internal/external business and IT partners and be accountable for leading project teams to achieve their deliverable goals on time with a high level of quality. This position will be responsible for several concurrent projects spanning multiple agencies, offices, and teams, from impact assessment through to implementation, using defined project methodologies such as Agile, and requires the use of independent judgement, initiative, and discretion.