Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

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Position Overview KēSTA I.T. is seeking a Senior Project Manager to support a multi-year, high-priority IT project within an organization. This role leads delivery of a single, multi-vendor project involving Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) technology and SaaS integration.

The Senior Project Manager works closely with technical teams, business teams, project sponsors, program managers, and agency executives and stakeholders. The role calls for someone who can work independently, guide technical and business teams toward consensus, and keep stakeholders informed at every level of the organization.

Success in this position means keeping the project on schedule and on budget, maintaining clear and timely communication, and ensuring the project follows established project management and system engineering methodologies throughout its lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Use the organization's project portfolio management tool (Clarity) to prepare project schedules, assign resources, and manage project budgets.
• Monitor, control, and communicate project progress by actively managing cost, schedule, scope, resources, quality, and risks.
• Communicate project status clearly, accurately, and on time to project sponsors, project team members, program managers, and senior management, using appropriate communication 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 securing commitment.
• Work with project team members to develop and maintain key project management methodology deliverables throughout the lifecycle: Project Charter, Project Schedule, Project Budget, Communication Plan, Project Status Report, Risk and Issue Management Plans, Change Requests, and Project Closedown Summary.
• Ensure the project adheres to the SUITE Project Management Methodology (PMM) and System Engineering Methodology (SEM), including timely transitions through lifecycle stages and phases.
• Facilitate and enforce the Change Management process, ensuring Change Requests receive appropriate approval before action is taken or information is updated when the project deviates from approved scope, schedule, or budget.
• Create Corrective Action Plans (CAP) for projects in yellow or red status when necessary.
• Understand project benefits and the impact of change requests on benefits business cases, and ensure related project artifacts are updated accordingly.
• Review and interpret vendor contracts to manage vendor deliverables and ensure adherence to the vendor deliverable approval procedure.
• Manage interface-related communication with other agencies.
• Facilitate stakeholder interactions by clarifying expectations and ensuring all deliverables are assigned, reviewed, and completed.

Required Qualifications

• 7 years of in-depth knowledge of and experience in IT project management, including industry standards and best practices
• 7 years of proven record delivering projects on time and on budget in a formal project manager role
• 7+ years of experience establishing and maintaining project budgets, schedules, change requests, and risk and issue logs
• 7 years of experience developing and delivering project status
• 5 years of experience using project portfolio management systems and tools, such as Clarity
• 5 years of advanced working knowledge of MSProject
• 5+ years of experience handling a variety of stakeholders and system owners from other departments
• 5 years of experience overseeing technical teams on system architecture and integration across SaaS solutions
• 5 years of experience providing project management services for IT projects involving Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) technology
• 5 years of experience managing a multi-vendor environment in a government environment
• 5+ years of developing and maintaining detailed project integration schedules
• 5 years of prior Developer or Senior Technical Project Management experience
• 5 years of experience with Plan of Action and Milestones (POAM)
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-vendor deployment supporting a hybrid workforce at all levels of the organization
• Exceptional communication and follow-up skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Scrum Master certification (highly desired, 5 years)
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification (highly desired, 3 years)
• 3 years of ADA compliance experience (highly desired)
• 3 years of file transfer service experience (highly desired)

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.