Project Manager IV- Water Resources

Introduction

The Division of Water manages and protects Delaware’s water resources. It provides technical assistance, laboratory services, and regulatory guidance and implementation.

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This position resides in the Division of Water, Director’s Office and serves as the senior level project manager and is responsible for managing complex, high-impact initiatives that support the Division’s mission to protect and manage Delaware’s water resources. Operating with a great deal of independence, this position oversees the planning, execution, and evaluation of major Division projects including contract management and procurement processes focused on streamlining and modernizing permitting processes.

Additional projects include updates to regulatory application systems, permitting modernization activities, and enhancements to environmental compliance tools. This position requires coordination with various regulatory programs both within and outside of the Division of Water.

• Manages the full lifecycle of State of Delaware projects from initiation through implementation including planning, designing, monitoring, and controlling requirements, costs, schedules, resources, staffing, testing, and quality assurance.
• Develops and obtains approval of activities as required based on the size, priority, complexity, and risk of the project.
• Selects, interprets, tailors, and utilizes predictive and adaptive project management tools and methods.
• Partners and collaborates with customers, business process owners, management, and end users to develop a detailed project plan considering the scope, risks, and requirements, prioritizes and organizes requirements for clarity and feasibility, and verifies the timing, quality and cost of deliverables.
• Aligns project requirements, scope, and objectives with the overall business strategy and takes corrective action or makes adjustments to ensure all project milestones are completed in a timely manner.
• Measures project performance and conducts statistical and other analyses such as risk analysis and stakeholder analyses, addresses issues, risks, and change orders as they arise, and provides recommendations to stakeholders based on findings.
• Manages and monitors progress against the project plan to inform the project portfolio, and schedules status reviews including quality assurance and other assessments and process reviews.
• Integrates service delivery with lean continuous improvement, business analysis, and change management resources providing updates, information and coordinating project management activities as needed with program team members.
• Maintains effective lines of communication with customers, business process owners, management, and end users and ensures agreement to any project changes.
• Coordinates internal resources and vendors (contractors) for the execution of projects.
• Utilizes modern tools and software platforms for project management and adheres to a consistent approach for maintaining project management methods, models and artifacts.
• Travels to various state office locations within Delaware as required.
• Prepares a variety of statistical, narrative, and other status or progress reports.
• Communicates and interacts effectively with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, ages, and races.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Applicants must have education, training and/or experience demonstrating competence in each of the following areas:

• Completion of a professional project management certification such as Project Management Professional (PMP) or Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM).
• Four years’ experience in project management such as planning, scheduling, staffing, coordinating, controlling, monitoring, evaluating and reporting on the status of projects.
• One year of experience in developing and making presentations to leadership and stakeholders on project status, progress, resolving issues/risk, or other project matters.
• Two years’ experience in designing, prioritizing, and defining the scope of projects including selecting…