Strategic Project Manager - One day per week onsite

Web Cam InterviewOne day per week onsite; needd 1 reference***

Position Summary

Success means more than a working system. It means probation officers spend less time on data entry and more time with clients, supervisors get reliable data for decisions, and justice-involved individuals experience clearer, fairer, and more consistent supervision.

Strategic Leadership and Governance

• Lead the full project lifecycle, from requirements and procurement through design, build, data migration, testing, statewide rollout, and decommissioning of ICON/JPOD.
• Develop and maintain the master schedule, budget, scope baseline, and benefits realization plan.
• Translate the Branch's strategic goals for probation into clear project objectives and measurable success criteria.

Vendor and Procurement Management

• Support the solicitation, evaluation, and selection of a solution vendor under state procurement rules.
• Hold vendors and internal teams accountable for quality, schedule, and cost.

Legislative and Policy Compliance

• Track Colorado statutes, Chief Justice Directives, and probation standards affecting system requirements, and build them into the solution.
• Coordinate with legal, policy, and research staff so the system supports required reporting, risk and needs assessments, and evidence-based practices.

Stakeholder Engagement and Change Management

• Engage chief probation officers, officers, supervisors, judges, court staff, and partner agencies across all 23 judicial districts, urban and rural alike.
• Lead human-centered design activities, such as field observation, user testing, and feedback loops with frontline staff.
• Direct organizational change management, training, communications, and go-live support.
• Make sure the client-facing parts of the system are accessible, plain-language, and equitable for justice-involved individuals.

Risk, Quality, and Reporting

• Identify, track, and mitigate risks and issues; escalate decisions promptly.
• Plan cutover so probation supervision is never interrupted.
• Report status, risks, and outcomes to leadership.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in project management, information systems, public administration, criminal justice, business, or a related field. Additional relevant experience may substitute for the degree year for year.
• Ten years of progressively responsible project management experience, including at least five years leading large, complex technology implementations with multiple vendors and stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated experience managing a multi-year schedule.
• Experience leading enterprise system replacements that included data migration and organizational change management.
• Ability to pass a criminal background check.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP), PgMP, or equivalent certification.
• Agile and change management certifications.
• Experience with Waterfall Project methodology.
• Experience applying Waterfall governance and procurement controls in conjunction with Agile solution delivery.
• Experience implementing case management systems for courts, probation, parole, corrections, or other justice agencies.
• Familiarity with Colorado state government, the Colorado Judicial Branch, or CICJIS data exchanges.
• Experience with commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) or configurable SaaS platform implementations in the public sector.
• Experience working with geographically distributed users in both urban and rural settings.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Project and program management: Command of predictive, Agile, and hybrid methods, and the judgment to choose between them.
• Systems thinking: Ability to understand how technology, policy, operations, and people interact, and to see downstream effects of design choices.
• Communication: Clear, plain-language writing and speaking for audiences ranging from judges and legislators to frontline officers and vendors.
• Facilitation and influence: Ability to build consensus among stakeholders with competing priorities, without direct authority.
• Empathy for users: Genuine interest in how probation officers and clients experience the system, and the discipline to design around their needs.
• Analytical skills: Ability to interpret data, evaluate trade-offs, and make sound decisions under uncertainty.
• Integrity and discretion: Sound handling of confidential criminal justice information and sensitive organizational matters.
• Resilience: Steady leadership through ambiguity, setbacks, and the pressures of a high-visibility public project.
• Benefits orientation: Understanding of business outcomes and the ability to support measurement of adoption and value realization objectives.
• Governance and executive engagement: Ability to operate within complex governance structures, prepare executive decision materials, facilitate escalations, and support leadership decision-making across multiple organizational levels.
• Change management: Ability to support organizational readiness, stakeholder engagement, communications, training, and user adoption activities.