Sr Project Manager

Cloud Hybrid Technologies, LLC; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech solutions provider is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead a multi-year project for the State of Michigan Gaming Control Board. This role requires strong leadership, exceptional communication skills, and significant experience in IT project management. The candidate will work primarily on-site with a hybrid setup of 2 days in the office and 3 days remote. This position offers the opportunity to manage various project deliverables and maintain effective collaboration among stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Must be comfortable working in a fast-paced, multi-vendor deployment.
• Significant experience in formal IT project management.
• Able to communicate effectively with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Utilize the Project Portfolio Management Tool to prepare project schedules.
• Accountable for monitoring, controlling, and communicating project progress.
• Provide leadership and foster collaborative participation between teams.
• Create Corrective Action Plans when necessary.

Skills

Exceptional communication skills

Formal IT project management

Leadership and collaboration

Tools

Clarity

Job description

This position is for a Senior Project Manager (PM3) to assist the State of Michigan Project Management Office supporting Michigan Gaming Control Board (MGCB) with a multi-year high priority 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 in the delivery of MGCB‘s LAMBS (Legacy Application Modernization of Business Systems).

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. This position requires the PM to be working in person for 2 days a week and 3 days remote.

Basic Duties:

• Utilize the State of Michigan’s Project Portfolio Management Tool (Clarity) to prepare project schedules, assign resources and management 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 MGCB/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:
• 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 (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.

Cloud Hybrid is an equal opportunity employer inclusive of female, minority, disability and veterans, (M/F/D/V). Hiring, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination and all other employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, citizenship/immigration status, veteran status or any other protected status. Cloud Hybrid will not make any posting or employment decision that does not comply with applicable laws relating to labor and employment, equal opportunity, employment eligibility requirements or related matters. Nor will Cloud Hybrid require in a posting or otherwise U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency in the U.S. as a condition of employment except as necessary to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or federal, state, or local government contract.