Senior Project Manager, IT Program
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Senior IT project manager leading complex MNIT/DOC technology initiatives. Managing cross-functional teams, governance, risks, deliverables, and implementation for Minnesota government.
Responsibilities:
- Provide overall program and senior-level project management for a complex MNIT/DOC technology initiative
- Lead project planning, initiation, execution, monitoring, control, and closure activities
- Establish and maintain project scope, schedule, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and resource plans
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans and ensure activities remain aligned with established timelines
- Coordinate and manage cross-functional technical, business, operational, vendor, and stakeholder teams
- Serve as a primary point of contact for project coordination, communication, status, and escalation
- Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, stakeholder discussions, and executive-level reviews
- Track project progress against approved baselines and communicate status, accomplishments, issues, risks, and upcoming activities
- Identify, document, assess, and proactively manage risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies
- Develop mitigation and contingency strategies and escalate significant risks or issues
- Manage project deliverables and ensure completion, review, approval, and on-schedule delivery
- Coordinate requirements, decisions, action items, and dependencies across business and technical teams
- Monitor project resources and support allocation of people, time, and other resources
- Manage scope, schedule, resource, and priority changes through change-control processes
- Maintain project documentation, including plans, status reports, meeting materials, risk/issue logs, decision logs, and action items
- Provide regular project status reporting to MNIT/DOC leadership and stakeholders
- Identify project-level conflicts and facilitate resolution
- Ensure compliance with MNIT/DOC policies, procedures, standards, and governance requirements
- Coordinate with vendors, contractors, and external partners
- Monitor project quality and ensure deliverables meet requirements and acceptance criteria
- Coordinate testing, implementation, transition, and deployment activities
- Support organizational change, communications, training, and transition activities
- Maintain clear communication across technical and non-technical audiences
- Provide senior-level guidance and recommendations to stakeholders and leadership
- Escalate issues affecting scope, schedule, budget, quality, or delivery
- Perform other project and program management activities supporting successful completion
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional experience in IT project/program management
- Demonstrated responsibility for managing complex technology initiatives
- Strong experience leading projects involving multiple teams, stakeholders, systems, and dependencies
- Demonstrated experience managing project scope, schedule, risks, issues, resources, dependencies, and deliverables
- Experience developing and maintaining detailed project plans and project management documentation
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Ability to work effectively with technical teams, business users, vendors, and leadership
- Experience facilitating meetings, driving action items, resolving issues, and maintaining project momentum
- Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Ability to manage competing priorities and multiple workstreams in a complex environment
- Experience producing executive-level and project-level status reports
- Strong understanding of standard IT project management methodologies, governance, and change-control practices
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Preferred: experience with state government, public-sector, or other government IT organizations
- Preferred: experience supporting MNIT, Minnesota state agencies, or the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC)
- Preferred: experience managing large or complex enterprise technology programs
- Preferred: experience in formal project governance, oversight, and reporting environments
- Preferred: experience coordinating third-party vendors, contractors, and implementation partners
- Preferred: PMP certification or equivalent formal project-management credential
- Preferred: experience with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid project delivery methodologies
- Preferred: familiarity with state government IT standards, processes, and governance frameworks
Benefits:
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Short- and long-term disability protection
- Basic life insurance
- AD&D insurance
- 401(k) Savings Plan
- Accrued Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Employee Recognition and Rewards
- Employee Referral Bonuses
- Work remotely
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