The Senior Project Manager’s duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Provide weekly scope, budget, and schedule status updates on the accomplishments, milestones, tasks, roadblocks, issues, and risks related to each cybersecurity project.
- Lead teams of technical resources to prioritize the statewide security assessments and delivery of additional high-quality IT solutions that meet business needs.
- Oversee and manage the NIST CSF assessment program, including development of policies, processes, and schedule/timelines for execution.
- Coordinate with various stakeholders and executives on program status, risks, issues, trends, and meetings.
- Develop project plans for statewide assessments and remediation roadmap areas.
- Ensure alignment between Department of Information Technology priority initiatives and Statewide Cybersecurity Initiatives.
- Ensure alignment between contractor and staff timesheets, completed work, and deliverables required as defined in both issued work orders and project plans.
- Develop and update project charters, scope statements, and scope management to align work efforts to organizational goals and objectives.
- Develop transition activities and rollout schedules during both pre- and post-implementation.
- Manage work activities to ensure conformity to the project scope, timelines, and budgets.
- Develop performance and quality measures/metrics and provide tracking and periodic reporting on these measures/metrics; create lessons learned and after actions reviews.
- Develop and manage budgets and resourcing plans, and track performance against these budgets and resourcing plans.
- Develop and implement communication strategies to improve transparency and promote awareness of program areas and issues.
- Develop written documentation and oral correspondence of outstanding quality.
- Integrate change management and change control practices into the program as required.
- Identify, track, manage, and reduce the impact of risks and issues.
- Manage vendor relationships to ensure high levels of quality deliverables and performance.
- Meet legal, regulatory, and policy mandates.