IT Project Manager Expert

The HIEA's partnership with SAS relies heavily on a SAS Program Manager and a team of SAS project managers who perform standard program and project managements functions, including coordination with a team of subcontracted J2 developers.

Therefore, in collaboration with SAS project managers, the primary purpose of HIEA project managers is to participate in the project management lifecycle as follows to help ensure projects move forward within the schedule, budget, scope, and resources allocated:

Schedule and facilitate the review and approval of the following project artifacts provided by SAS:

• Abstracts
• Statements of work (SOWs)
• Project plans
• Risk logs and remediation plans
• Requirements
• Design documentation
• QA test plans

• Track the timely delivery of the above artifacts against contractual requirements.2 Track the timely response or updates to project artifacts when additional refinement is required.
• As needed, collaborate with SAS project managers to define high-level project tracking and status reporting dashboards or reports.

Participate in SAS project and operational meetings and:

• Track the completion of tasks by HIEA, SAS, and J2 resource against established deadlines.
• Track the delivery of meeting minutes against contractual requirements3 and review meetings minutes for clarity and alignment.
• As needed, schedule, lead, facilitate meetings, and communicate effectively with SAS, HIEA, J2, and external stakeholders.
• As needed, provide collaborative support for standard operating procedures (SOPs) including documentation, diagrams, KPIs, and continuous improvement.
• Utilize project and task management applications such as MS Project, Jira, ServiceNow, MS Planner, and Asana.
• Work closely with the HIEA Program Manager to understand the broader context of projects and their intended impact in meeting program goals.
• Maintain an awareness and understanding of the agency's strategic business vision, mission, objectives, priorities, relevant legislation, governance, and funding sources & deadlines.

In addition to the duties described above, the HIEA may have internal projects with low-to-medium complexity in which HIEA project managers perform the following:

• Full project management lifecycle support and documentation, including scoping, requirements, and scheduling; and adoption of agile, waterfall, or hybrid methodologies as appropriate.
• Regular high-level or detailed project status reporting and presentations.
• Support for internal standard operating procedures (SOPs) including documentation, diagrams, KPIs, and continuous improvement.