Business Analysis Project Manager – Intermediate

This position is being recruited in support of a current proposal opportunity and is contingent upon Quivera Enterprises being awarded the contract.

Wichita Tribal Enterprises (WTE), a Quivera Enterprises subsidiary, is seeking an experienced Business Analysis Support Project Manager – Intermediate to support Indian Affairs (IA) and Office of Information Technology (OIT) programs, projects, and operational initiatives.

The Project Manager manages assigned IT projects throughout the project lifecycle and provides project management and business analysis expertise within a federal IT environment. This position coordinates Government, business, technical, security, vendor, and contractor stakeholders and is responsible for managing project scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, requirements, documentation, compliance, and delivery performance.

In addition to demonstrated IT project management and business analysis experience, the Project Manager must bring substantive functional expertise in at least one complementary IT delivery discipline:
Change & Configuration Management, IT Asset Management, or Quality Management
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Working with the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), Federal Task Lead, project teams, vendors, and other stakeholders, the Project Manager manages resources, risks, dependencies, customer relationships, and project outcomes in accordance with task order requirements, federal standards, and Department of the Interior (DOI) and Indian Affairs (IA) policies and procedures.

• Manage assigned IT projects throughout the project lifecycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, deployment, transition, and closeout.
• Apply Project Management Institute (PMI) principles, Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) practices, Agile methodologies, Waterfall methodologies, and hybrid approaches appropriate to project requirements.
• Lead and facilitate Program Increment (PI) Planning activities and associated planning, coordination, and follow-up.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, schedules, roadmaps, guides, templates, forms, governance artifacts, decision records, status reports, and other required project documentation.
• Coordinate information collection, document review, approval, version control, and maintenance of project records.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and maintain project, product, and sprint backlogs in alignment with organizational and project priorities.
• Coordinate Government personnel, contractor teams, vendors, technical resources, and other stakeholders required to achieve project objectives.
• Establish and track project milestones, dependencies, deliverables, action items, and performance requirements.
• Monitor project expenditures, compare actual costs against approved budgets, develop projections, and analyze cost, schedule, and performance requirements.
• Identify, assess, document, track, mitigate, and resolve project risks, issues, dependencies, and impediments.
• Develop mitigation and contingency plans and elevate significant risks and issues in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with technical teams, vendors, CORs, Federal Task Leads, and other Government stakeholders to support successful project delivery and contract compliance.
• Maintain project plans, status reports, decision records, test plans, governance artifacts, dashboards, and other required project documentation.
• Conduct stakeholder analysis and develop project communications plans that support project objectives, decision-making, organizational readiness, and stakeholder coordination.
• Monitor project performance and recommend corrective actions when scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, or delivery requirements are at risk.

• Elicit, analyze, validate, document, and manage business, functional, technical, and system requirements.
• Analyze and document current-state, interim-state, and future-state business processes.
• Identify opportunities for business process improvement, modernization, automation, and increased operational efficiency.
• Develop user stories, story maps, use cases, acceptance criteria, and prioritized backlogs.
• Develop business and functional requirements, workflows, process models, system models, and other analytical artifacts.
• Translate business and system requirements into clear, measurable, and testable outcomes.
• Develop acceptance criteria, test scenarios, and test cases based on approved requirements and stakeholder input.
• Facilitate…