Expert IT Project Manager

Diverse Agile Solutions; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Diverse Agile Solutions is seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to lead complex, cross-functional information technology projects in a dynamic environment. You will guide large, matrixed teams, coordinate delivery across organizational boundaries, and communicate with project teams, stakeholders, and executive leadership.

Responsibilities include planning, scoping, scheduling, and stakeholder reporting, with emphasis on risk management, resource allocation, and successful rollout across

Qualifications

• 84+ months of project management experience with large teams.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional IT projects across organizations.
• Proven ability to guide executive-level stakeholders through complex initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, and manage complex IT projects from initiation through rollout and transition.
• Develop and maintain project scopes, schedules, requirements, rules, and rollout plans.
• Coordinate and mentor project team members and track task completion.
• Prepare status reports; communicate progress, risks, and dependencies to stakeholders.
• Identify critical paths, risks, and issues; develop mitigation and control plans.
• Estimate and allocate resources; negotiate priorities and timelines.
• Schedule and facilitate stakeholder meetings; document minutes and decisions.
• Plan and support training, product implementation, rollout, and transition activities.
• Ensure delivery aligns with strategic business and technical objectives.

Skills

Project management leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

Expert IT Project Manager

Diverse Agile Solutions is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead complex, cross-functional information technology projects. The work may include application development, vendor software implementation, and technology infrastructure initiatives. The successful candidate will guide large, matrixed teams, coordinate delivery across organizational boundaries, and communicate effectively with project teams, stakeholders, and executive leadership.

What You'll Do

• Plan, organize, and manage complex IT projects from initiation through rollout and transition.
• Develop and maintain project scopes, schedules, business requirements, business rules, communication plans, detailed project plans, milestones, and rollout plans.
• Coordinate and mentor project team members, track task completion, and facilitate delivery across project and organizational boundaries.
• Prepare status reports and briefings; communicate progress, decisions, risks, issues, and dependencies to stakeholders, executives, management, and project resources.
• Identify and maintain critical paths, contingencies, risks, and issues; develop and monitor mitigation and control plans.
• Estimate and allocate resources, report resource needs, secure participation, and negotiate priorities and timelines.
• Schedule and facilitate stakeholder meetings; prepare agendas, document minutes, and support decisions that clarify cross-functional business and technical requirements.
• Plan and support training, product implementation, rollout, and transition activities.

Minimum Qualifications

• 84+ months of project management experience, including the ability to guide large teams and provide expert-level industry leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• 84 months of experience creating project scopes, business cases, and/or project plans and applying project management methodologies to manage scope, schedule, and quality.
• 84 months of experience reporting project status to stakeholders at all levels, including executives, management, and project resource teams.
• 84 months of experience creating meeting agendas, meeting minutes, and project communications for complex cross-functional projects.
• 84 months of experience managing complex, cross-functional, multi-organization IT projects with executive-level stakeholders. Experience should include application development, vendor software implementation, and/or technology infrastructure projects.
• 60 months of experience as a Project Manager in a state or federal government environment.
• 60 months of experience managing projects with 15 or more participants, including negotiating priorities and resolving conflicts among team members.