Role: Project Manager- Must be a Wisconsin resident
Location: Madison, WI- Hybrid
Duration: 6 Months contract with possibility of extensions
Project Details:
This is a senior project management role responsible for managing and coordinating project management activities related to agency priority initiatives and projects. The person in this role is expected to apply predictive, adaptive, or hybrid project management methodology and tools to deliver projects. This position also provides advice and assistance to divisional leadership, and to other division administrators and agency leaders on issues of department-wide importance and/or of priority to specific divisions.
The individual in this role will manage both technical and organizational change management workstreams, ensuring smooth transition to operational delivery units. The Project Manager will demonstrate excellent communication with internal and external customers, project team members, stakeholders, and executives.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for helping the executive leadership team develop a departmental strategy and then
help define strategic initiatives from that strategy
- Exceptional communication skills and a high degree of emotional intelligence (EQ) to work with a
broad spectrum of business leaders effectively. This project is a business-focused project manager position and not a technical position.
- Partner with the Executive team, business sponsors, IT Senior Management, and other team leaders to ensure priorities of the project are understood and managed accordingly for complex technical and non- technical problems are solved.
- Must be able to facilitate business group discussions professionally in a decision-making environment
- Responsible for assembling and managing business-focused working teams
- Responsible for tracking key project milestones and adjusting project plans and resources to meet
- customers' needs.
- Research new technology and develop business cases to support enterprise-wide business intelligence solutions.
Top Skills & Years of Experience: Minimum 8 years of experience
- 10+ years of Project Management experience along with a Project Management certification, such
as the PMP.
- Successful experience in team building, managing project timelines and budgets, and producing
high-quality project artifacts, such as charter, project plans, and more.
- Expert knowledge of business objectives to work with multiple stakeholders to ensure complex
problems are solved.
- Capable of managing a project or subset of a project with up to ten (10) staff members.
- Increasing levels of project management accountability and assignment complexity, demonstrating the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects with business, vendor, organizational change management, and technology workstreams.
- Demonstrated experience delivering projects successfully with adaptive, hybrid, and predictive project management methodologies, including expertise with stage gate governance.
- Demonstrated ability to manage and complete projects with measurable success against key performance indicators (KPIs) as defined with the business or program areas at the project outset, demonstrating the project met or surpassed the desired outcomes.
- Successfully led at least two (2), large ($1M budget with a duration of 18 months or longer) projects, in a project manager role, through the entire project management life cycle: initiation through project closeout.
Nice to Have:
- Demonstrated experience using the critical path method in project delivery.
- PMP Certification (Highly Preferred)
- Experience with advanced analytics
- Change management experience
- MS Project experience
