Senior IT Project Manager

MasterApp Labs LLC; Lansing (MI); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 179,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Job summary

MasterApp Labs LLC in Lansing, MI seeks a Senior IT Project Manager for a contracted, hybrid role (onsite two days/week). You will lead IT projects in a large enterprise, manage budgets, vendors, and cross-functional teams while ensuring governance and timely delivery.

Responsibilities include planning with Clarity, reporting to executives, and enforcing Change Management and vendor collaboration. MS Teams and in-person engagements are part of the process.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Project Manager.
• 8+ years of experience managing projects with budgets greater than $20 million.
• 8+ years of experience managing IT projects within a large, complex enterprise environment.
• 8+ years of experience managing vendors and/or third-party solution providers.
• Demonstrated leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills.
• Experience leading multiple concurrent projects and driving work to successful completion with minimal supervision.
• Experience handling variety of stakeholders and system/ business owners from other departments.
• Experience managing multi-vendor environment in a government environment.
• Experience providing project management services for IT Projects involving Commercial Off the Shelf Technology (COTS).
• Oversee technical teams with system architecture and integration across SaaS solutions.

Responsibilities

• Utilize the State of Michigan’s Project Portfolio Management Tool (Clarity) to prepare project schedules, assign resources and manage budgets.
• Prepare information for presentations geared to executives, managers and project team members.
• Monitor, control, and communicate project progress by actively managing cost, schedule, scope, resources, quality, and risks.
• Communicate with stakeholders on project status using appropriate methods.
• Provide leadership and foster collaborative participation between technical and business teams.
• Manage and communicate interfaces related to other agencies.
• Ensure adherence to Michigan’s methodologies and lifecycle stages.
• Facilitate and enforce Change Management processes when scope, schedule, or budget deviates.
• Ensure project benefits are understood and artifacts updated accordingly.
• Review contracts to manage vendor deliverables and approval procedures.
• Coordinate stakeholder interactions and ensure deliverables are assigned and completed.

Skills

PMP certification

State government project management

Vendor management

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Tools

Clarity

Job description

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Job Title:

Senior IT Project Manager

Location:

Lansing, MI, (Hybrid)-Onsite from day 1, two days a week. Monday's and Tuesday's are required onsite

Position Type:

Contract

Interview Mode

MS Teams & In-person both

Basic Duties:

• Utilize the State of Michigan’s Project Portfolio Management Tool (Clarity) to prepare project schedules, assign resources and manage 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 managing and communication of interfaces related to other agencies.
• Responsible for ensuring the project adheres to the State of Michigan’s methodologies, including appropriate and timely transitions through the stages and phases of the project lifecycle.
• Responsible for facilitating and enforcing the Change Management process (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 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 interactions among stakeholders by clarifying the expectations of all participants and ensuring all deliverables are assigned, reviewed, and completed.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience as a Project Manager.
• 8+ years of experience managing projects with budgets greater than $20 million.
• 8+ years of experience managing IT projects within a large, complex enterprise environment.
• 8+ years of experience managing vendors and/or third-party solution providers.
• Demonstrated leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills.
• Experience leading multiple concurrent projects and driving work to successful completion with minimal supervision.
• Experience handling variety of stakeholders and system/ business owners from other departments.
• Experience managing multi-vendor environment in a government environment.
• Experience providing project management services for IT Projects involving Commercial Off the Shelf Technology (COTS).
• Oversee technical teams with system architecture and integration across SaaS solutions.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications:

• PMP (Project Management Professional) or other relevant project management certification.
• Experience using project portfolio management systems and tools (eg. Clarity).
• Previous experience working within state government, the Department of Corrections, or other public sector agencies.

Flexible work from home options available.