IT Project & Portfolio Manager - Des Moines, IA

IT Project & Portfolio Manager

Des Moines IA 50309
7+ Months

Limit submittals to local/regional candidates who can work onsite 2‑3 days/week. Agencies who misrepresent a candidate's location will be disqualified from the selection process.

The PM will be part of a PMO team responsible for all aspects of IT project governance, assessment, management, and control. The project manager will manage project schedules, staffing, procurement, and funding requests, and will track delivery and report status for each project. The PM will work with multiple business and platform areas across the State and conduct project meetings, ensuring adherence to quality standards and deliverables.

• Work within a project governance structure (methodology, required templates and reporting)
• Interact with, educate, learn from, and drive business and IT teams
• Work effectively under broad direction with general supervision
• Motivate team and meet deadlines in a fast‑paced challenging environment
• Gather and organize multiple simultaneous complex business process scenarios
• Break down complex tasks into actionable work items, sequenced appropriately
• Manage scope creep focusing on delivering a minimum‑viable product
• Demonstrate excellent organization, presentation, interpersonal, and team‑building skills
• Manage time effectively and plan/strategize projects
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated experience managing client expectations and implementing service improvement initiatives
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple parallel work efforts
• Track project progress, monitor and modify schedules, provide status updates, and escalates issues appropriately
• Provide insight into improving processes related to portfolio, project and program management
• Other duties or tasks as assigned by management

• Direct management of system integration projects
• Experience managing stakeholder expectations and priorities
• Experience working within a project governance structure (methodology, required templates and reporting)
• Extensive experience planning, managing and tracking multiple major impact projects
• Strong process development skills and ability to learn and understand concepts for documenting and formalizing procedures
• Strong process and gap analysis skills
• Excellent project management skills with ability to multitask and manage multiple tasks with changing priorities in a cross‑functional environment
• Experience gathering and documenting business requirements with business users
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and activities simultaneously while meeting deadlines