State of Mississippi - PMP/PgMP Certified Lead Project Manager - 154773 (Remote)
Duration: Until 02/28/2031
Posting Close Date: 2/2/2026 3:00:00 PM
Required Skills:
- Must be able to effectively communicate (verbal and written) requirements with stakeholders as well as development team
- Must be able to collaborate with Senior Management and other Project Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, QA
- Team, and developers to ensure requirements are communicated, accepted, and meet expectations
- Knowledge of PMI standards and Processes, and success in managing IT projects
- Use of project management and work management tools such as Azure DevOps and Git
- Experience with Information Technology Project Management and K-12 Education is a plus
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI)
- Must be familiar with software and database development concepts to include test cases, quality assurance, creation of diagrams, flowcharts and work flows of business processes and data flow
- Must be able to translate and simplify requirements from stakeholders into written requirement documents for development team. Documents include Formal Requirements Document, Functional Design Document, Technical Design
- Document, Technical Use Cases, User stories, Business Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test cases.
- Provide hands-on project management of enterprise-wide projects including all phases of project life cycle and/or software development life cycle as well as support a project management team
- Strong experience in mapping business processes into technical documentation
- Strong experience in developing Business Cases, Benefit Analysis, and identifying Risks
Preferred Skills:
- Project Management Certification
- Scrum
- Agile
Job Description:
This position will require a qualified Project Manager to take the lead in the following tasks:
Manage IT Projects to include defining projects, tracking progress and status reporting
Establish and maintain Project Managements Standards
Develop a comprehensive project repository to improve the ability to estimate resources for future IT projects
Establish and maintain an Enterprise Project Portfolio containing multiple projects
Requirements Management: gathering, analysis, organization and reporting
Documentation of new development (User Guide, Systems Guide, other)
Coordinate activities across different organizational functions