Senior Project Manager – Short Term

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of a complex Revenue Life Cycle replacement project.
• Manage multiple project work streams while ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Coordinate activities across vendors, consultants, DBHDS IT teams, and business stakeholders.
• Drive project execution throughout the full project lifecycle from planning through operational transition.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, budgets, resource plans, and project documentation.
• Identify, assess, mitigate, and communicate project risks and issues.
• Manage project scope, deliverables, milestones, and overall project performance.
• Monitor vendor performance using established metrics and accountability measures.
• Facilitate procurement-related project activities and implementation planning.
• Develop presentations and status reports for executive leadership.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with executive sponsors, business leaders, vendors, suppliers, and technology teams.
• Coordinate with solution architects and technical leadership to incorporate agency best practices into project plans.
• Facilitate resolution of technical and non-technical project issues.
• Lead project scoping, technical requirements gathering, estimation, and planning activities.
• Guide business and IT teams through business and technical requirements discovery and documentation.
• Ensure compliance with DBHDS and Virginia Information Technology Agency (VITA) project management standards and governance requirements.
• Support Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or Waterfall delivery methodologies as appropriate.

• 10 years of experience demonstrating strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• 10 years of experience leading organizational implementation of new approaches, systems, structures, and methodologies.
• 10 years of experience with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies.
• 10 years of experience understanding technology sufficiently to represent technical project teams across multiple stakeholder forums.
• 10 years of experience leading business and IT teams through business and technical requirements discovery and documentation for solution proposal initiatives.
• 10 years of experience applying Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies.
• 10 years of experience utilizing Scrum, Kanban, or Waterfall project management best practices.
• Active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification issued by PMI.
• 5 years of experience leading large, complex programs with multiple work streams.
• 5 years of experience managing vendors and implementing vendor-delivered solutions.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship, now or in the future.
• Must physically reside within the United States for the duration of the assignment.
• Must complete a Web Cam interview.
• Must provide a copy of the active PMI PMP certification with submission.