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• Post :- 29th Jan 2025

This position is for a Senior Project Manager to assist the State of Michigan Project Management Office supporting DIFS 

with a multi-year high priority legacy modernization project. This role, as part of the DTMB Enterprise Portfolio 

Management Office (EPMO), works closely with DTMB Agency Services technical teams as well as with agency 

executives/stakeholders. 

The candidate must be comfortable working in a fast paced, multi-vendor deployment supporting a hybrid workforce 

(combination of on-site and remote work) at all levels of the organization. Applicants should possess exceptional 

communication and follow up skills along with significant experience in formal IT project management. 

Basic Duties: 

• Utilize the State of Michigan's Project Portfolio Management Tool (Clarity) to prepare project schedules, assign 

resources and manages budgets. 

• Prepare information for presentations geared to various audiences ranging from executives, managers and project 

team members. 

• Accountable for monitoring, controlling, and communicating project progress by actively managing the cost, 

schedule, scope, resources, quality, and risks. 

• Accountable and responsible for clear, timely, and accurate communications with stakeholders, particularly the 

project sponsors, project team members, program managers, and DTMB management, on the status of the project, 

using appropriate communication methods. 

• Responsible for providing leadership and fostering collaborative participation between the technical and business 

teams by obtaining consensus and gaining commitment. 

• Responsible for working with the project team members to develop and maintain the following key SUITE Project 

Management Methodology (PMM) deliverables throughout the project lifecycle: 

o Project Charter - Project Schedule – Project Budget - Communication Plan - Project Status Report - Risk and 

Issue Management Plans - Change Requests - Project Closedown Summary 

• Responsible for managing interfaces related communication with other agencies. 

• Responsible for ensuring the project adheres to the SUITE PMM and System Engineering Methodology (SEM), 

including appropriate and timely transitions through the stages and phases of the project lifecycle. 

• Responsible for facilitating and enforcing the Change Management process as agreed upon with the agency (Change 

Requests) when the project deviates from the approved scope, schedule, or budget. This includes ensuring all 

Change Requests have appropriate approval before action is taken or information is updated. 

• Responsible for creating project Corrective Action Plans (CAP) when necessary for projects in yellow or red status. 

• Responsible for understanding the project benefits and the impact of change requests to the benefits business cases. 

Responsible for ensuring related project artifacts are updated accordingly. 

• Responsible for reviewing and understanding vendor contracts to actively manage the vendor deliverables and 

adherence to the vendor deliverable approval procedure. 

• Facilitates the interactions among stakeholders by clarifying the expectations of all participants and ensuring all 

deliverables are assigned, reviewed, and completed.