Senior Project Manager

Location: Dimondale, MI (Hybrid)

Work Arrangement: Hybrid, 2 days onsite per week

Experience Required: 7+ YearsJob Description Our client is seeking a Senior Project Manager to assist its Project Management Office on a multi-year, high-priority initiative. Working as part of the enterprise portfolio management office, this role partners with technical teams and executives/stakeholders to deliver projects supporting our client's state finance and gaming regulatory programs. The candidate must be comfortable working in a fast-paced, multi-vendor deployment that supports a hybrid workforce 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 working in person two days per week and remotely three days per week.

Key Responsibilities: Utilize our client'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. Provide clear, timely, and accurate communications with stakeholders — particularly project sponsors, project team members, program managers, and management — on project status using appropriate communication methods. Provide leadership and foster collaborative participation between the technical and business teams by obtaining consensus and gaining commitment. Work with the project team to develop and maintain key project management methodology deliverables throughout the project lifecycle, including Project Charter, Project Schedule, Project Budget, Communication Plan, Project Status Report, Risk and Issue Management Plans, Change Requests, and Project Closedown Summary. Manage interface-related communication with other agencies. Ensure the project adheres to our client's project management and systems engineering methodologies, including appropriate and timely transitions through the stages and phases of the project lifecycle. Facilitate and enforce the Change Management process (Change Requests) when the project deviates from the approved scope, schedule, or budget, including ensuring all Change Requests have appropriate approval before action is taken or information is updated. Create project Corrective Action Plans (CAP) when necessary for projects in yellow or red status. Understand the project benefits and the impact of change requests on the benefits business cases, and ensure related project artifacts are updated accordingly. Review and understand vendor contracts to actively manage vendor deliverables and adherence to the vendor deliverable approval procedure. Facilitate interactions among stakeholders by clarifying expectations and ensuring all deliverables are assigned, reviewed, and completed.

Required Qualifications: 7 years of in-depth knowledge of and experience in IT project management, including industry standards and best practices.7 years of proven record for delivering projects on time and on budget in a formal project manager role.7 years of experience establishing and maintaining project budgets, schedules, change requests, and risk and issue logs.7 years of experience developing and delivering project status reporting.5 years of experience using project portfolio management systems and tools (e.g., Clarity).5 years of advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Project.5 years of experience handling a variety of stakeholders and system owners from other departments.5 years of experience overseeing technical teams with system architecture and integration across SaaS solutions.5 years of experience providing project management services for IT projects involving Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) technology.5 years of experience managing a multi-vendor environment in a government setting.5 years of experience developing and maintaining detailed project integration schedules.5 years of prior developer / senior technical project management experience.5 years of Plan of Action and Milestones (POAM) experience.

Preferred Qualifications: Scrum Master certification (5 years highly desired).Project Management Professional (PMP) certification (3 years highly desired).ADA compliance experience (3 years highly desired).File Transfer Service experience (3 years highly desired).Work Arrangement This is a hybrid contract position. Candidates must work onsite in Dimondale, MI on Tuesday and Wednesday from day one, with the remaining days remote. There is no fully remote option. Subject to our client's policies.