Project Manager

Oklahoma Department Of Human Services; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 86,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

The Oklahoma Department of Human Services in Oklahoma City seeks a Project Manager III to lead complex, high-priority projects from concept to closeout. You will manage scope, schedule, budget, and quality, and coordinate cross-functional teams across business, technical, and procurement domains.

Responsibilities include developing PM plans, risk registers, dashboards, and executive-level status reports while ensuring stakeholder alignment and adherence to state policies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, computer science, information systems management, public health, or related discipline and five years of experience in project management.
• OR a combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Leads complex, high-priority, cross-functional projects from concept through closeout, within scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
• Develops and maintains comprehensive PM plans, schedules, WBS, risk/issue logs, decision logs, action item tracking, and other PM docs.
• Facilitates project planning sessions with stakeholders to establish objectives, scope, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and success criteria.
• Coordinates cross-functional project teams ensuring responsibilities, timelines, and expectations are clearly defined.
• Manages project schedules and dependencies; develops mitigation or recovery strategies when behind schedule.
• Identifies, assesses, monitors, and communicates risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies; develops mitigations.
• Facilitates project decisions by gathering information, evaluating options, documenting recommendations, and communicating decisions.
• Monitors scope and manages changes through change control;Assess impacts to schedule, budget, resources, requirements, outcomes.
• Tracks budgets, expenditures, forecasts, and resource needs with business/finance stakeholders.
• Develops and delivers status reports, dashboards, and executive presentations for leadership visibility.
• Facilitates meetings and governance; ensures decisions and actions are documented and followed.
• Maintains relationships with sponsors, stakeholders, vendors, technical teams, and leadership.
• Coordinates vendor and procurement activities including requirements, procurement planning, and vendor performance.
• Ensures deliverables align with strategies, regulatory requirements, policies, and standards.
• Translates business objectives into actionable requirements and milestones with technical teams.
• Anticipates challenges and develops solutions; escalates when appropriate and informs sponsors/leadership.
• Ensures project documentation, lessons learned, deliverables, and handoffs are completed at closeout.
• Provides guidance and knowledge sharing on PM practices, tools, and governance.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, computer science, information systems management, public health or related discipline

Job description

This position is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Project ManagerIII - E52E Annual Salary: $95,000+Full State Employee Benefits

Travel is Occasional-Must possess a valid driver's license and must maintain required car insurance.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education and Experience requirements at this level consist of a bachelor’s degree in business administration, computer science, information systems management, public health, or related scientific or technical discipline and five years of experience in project management,
• OR a combination of education and experience.

Job Duties:

• Leads complex, high-priority, and cross-functional projects from concept through closeout, ensuring projects are delivered within approved scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
• Develops and maintains comprehensive project management plans, schedules, work breakdown structures, risk and issue registers, decision logs, action item tracking, and other required project documentation.
• Facilitates project planning sessions with business, technical, operational, financial, procurement, and other stakeholders to establish project objectives, scope, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and success criteria.
• Coordinates the work of cross-functional project teams and subject matter experts, ensuring responsibilities, timelines, and expectations are clearly defined and communicated.
• Manages project schedules and dependencies, identifies potential impacts to critical milestones, and develops mitigation or recovery strategies when projects fall behind schedule.
• Identifies, assesses, monitors, and communicates project risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies; develops mitigation and escalation strategies as appropriate.
• Facilitates project decisions by identifying decision points, gathering relevant information, evaluating options, documenting recommendations, and ensuring decisions are communicated to impacted stakeholders.
• Monitors project scope and manages changes through established change control processes, assessing impacts to schedule, budget, resources, requirements, and project outcomes.
• Tracks project budgets, expenditures, forecasts, and resource requirements in collaboration with business and financial stakeholders.
• Develops and delivers project status reports, executive-level presentations, dashboards, and other communications to provide leadership with clear visibility into project health, progress, risks, issues, and decisions.
• Facilitates project meetings, working sessions, and governance activities, ensuring meetings are focused on outcomes and that decisions and action items are documented and followed through.
• Establishes and maintains effective relationships with project sponsors, stakeholders, vendors, technical teams, business partners, and organizational leadership.
• Coordinates vendor and procurement activities as applicable, including requirements development, procurement planning, vendor deliverables, contract milestones, and vendor performance monitoring.
• Ensures project deliverables and outcomes align with organizational strategies, business needs, regulatory requirements, policies, and established standards.
• Works closely with technical teams to translate business objectives into actionable requirements, technical deliverables, implementation activities, and project milestones.
• Anticipates project challenges and proactively develops solutions, escalating matters when appropriate and providing recommendations to project sponsors and leadership.
• Ensures appropriate project documentation is maintained throughout the project lifecycle and that lessons learned, final deliverables, outstanding items, and operational handoffs are completed during project closeout.
• Provides guidance, mentoring, and knowledge sharing to Project Managers and project team members on project management practices, tools, processes, and governance requirements.
• Supports the development, improvement, and standardization of project management processes, templates, methodologies, and governance practices within the PMO.
• May lead multiple projects simultaneously and effectively prioritize competing demands for shared resources, organizational capacity, and stakeholder attention.
• Performs other related duties and responsibilities as assigned.

*Preference may be given to applicants who have experience inProject Management Professional(PMP), Agile, Scrum, or other relevant project management.

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If you have questions, please contact [e-mail]

OKDHS is a Fair Chance Employer.

This is a position in the Oklahoma Civil Service.

Announcement Number:26-JD258

P103007/JR66930