Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

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Position Overview

KēSTA I.T. is seeking a Senior Project Manager to support a public sector Project Management Office in delivering high-priority projects. The role sits within an enterprise portfolio management office and works closely with agency technical teams as well as agency executives and stakeholders. This Project Manager will lead a variety of initiatives throughout the year, including technology implementations, organizational initiatives, procurement efforts, and RFP-driven projects. Work spans both Agile and traditional delivery environments, and often involves Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) technology and SaaS solutions. The environment is fast-paced and multi-vendor, with a hybrid workforce. Success in this role means leading multiple concurrent projects to completion with minimal supervision, keeping cost, schedule, scope, resources, quality, and risk under control, and keeping stakeholders at every level clearly informed.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a variety of projects throughout the year, including technology implementations, organizational initiatives, procurement efforts, and RFP-driven projects, in both Agile and traditional delivery environments.
• Use the client's project portfolio management tool, Clarity, to prepare project schedules, assign resources, and manage budgets.
• Monitor, control, and communicate project progress by actively managing cost, schedule, scope, resources, quality, and risks.
• Provide clear, timely, and accurate status communication to project sponsors, project team members, program managers, and technology management using appropriate methods.
• Prepare presentation materials tailored to audiences ranging from executives and managers to project team members.
• Lead and foster collaboration between technical and business teams by building consensus and gaining commitment.
• Oversee technical teams on system architecture and integration across SaaS solutions.
• Review and understand vendor contracts to manage vendor deliverables and ensure adherence to the vendor deliverable approval procedure in a multi-vendor environment.
• Manage and communicate interfaces with other agencies.
• Ensure projects follow the required methodologies, including timely transitions through project lifecycle stages and phases.
• Facilitate and enforce the Change Management process, ensuring Change Requests are properly approved before action is taken whenever a project deviates from approved scope, schedule, or budget.
• Assess project benefits and the impact of change requests on benefits business cases, and keep related project artifacts up to date.
• Facilitate interactions among stakeholders by clarifying expectations and ensuring all deliverables are assigned, reviewed, and completed.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Project Manager
• 8+ years of experience managing projects with budgets greater than $20 million
• 8+ years of experience managing IT projects within a large, complex enterprise environment
• 8+ years of experience managing vendors and/or third-party solution providers
• Demonstrated leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills
• Experience leading multiple concurrent projects and driving work to successful completion with minimal supervision
• Experience working with a variety of stakeholders and system or business owners from other departments
• Experience managing a multi-vendor environment in a government setting
• Experience providing project management services for IT projects involving Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) technology
• Experience overseeing technical teams on system architecture and integration across SaaS solutions
• Exceptional communication and follow-up skills, with significant experience in formal IT project management

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP (Project Management Professional) or other relevant project management certification
• Experience using project portfolio management systems and tools (e.g., Clarity)
• Previous experience working within state government, a department of corrections, or other public sector agencies

Available Benefits

• Medical Benefits (Platinum level plans available)
• Work from home / Hybrid / Onsite options
• PTO
• Holiday Pay
• VTO
• 401K
• Charitable Match
• Training reimbursement

About KēSTA I.T.

Our name says it all; KēSTA I.T. (Keys-to-I.T.) AND our people are our keys to our success!

KēSTA I.T. is a premier Utah-based technical staffing and consulting services firm. We specialize in temporary and permanent placement of Software, Hardware, Network, Cloud, CRM/ERP, Data, End-User support, Web and Executive / leadership-based positions on a full time and consulting basis. If you're interested in a role where top performance is rewarded, personal time is valued, and excellence is demanded at every level we want to talk to you today!

Where do you want to go? We've got the keys! ~ KēSTA I.T.