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Job Description

Job Description

Hybrid (1 Day Onsite in St. Paul and 4 days remote)  Candidates MUST be local to the Twin Cities.  

 

Description:

Project / Program Planning & Management

  • Develop comprehensive project plans using Waterfall & Agile methodologies.
  • Define scope, goals, deliverables, and timelines.
  • Coordinate internal resources and third parties / vendors for execution of projects within baselines.
  • Utilize departmental tools for project management, tracking, and reporting.

 

Team Leadership

  • Lead project teams and manage / coach junior project managers as appropriate to ensure service delivery.
  • Support a collaborative and productive work and PMO team environment.
  • Facilitate communication and coordination for projects / programs across cross-functional teams.
  • Accountable to lead change management and conflict resolution efforts within assigned projects.
  • Ensure teams have clear roles, responsibilities, and deliverables.

 

Stakeholder Management

  • Build strong stakeholder relationships to become a trusted advisor to project sponsors.
  • Communicate project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders and executive management in a timely manner to set expectations and escalate as appropriate.
  • Ensure alignment of project objectives with business goals through stakeholder management activities.

 

Risk & Issue Management

  • Proactively identify, assess, and manage project / program risks and issues through mitigation planning.
  • Monitor and report project / program progress and performance throughout delivery lifecycle.

 

Budget & Resource Management

  • Develop and manage project budgets, per governance requirements.
  • Allocate resources effectively to ensure project success through demand management and capacity planning for projects / programs assigned.
  • Monitor expenditures and ensure adherence to budget constraints.

 

Transformation & Organizational Change Management

  • Lead transformation and change management scope within projects and programs as appropriate, to ensure solution adoption and process adherence.

 

Process Improvement

  • Support the evaluation and refinement of project management methodologies and processes.
  • Support continuous improvement initiatives within the PMO
  • Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging practices.

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • High school diploma or GED AND nine (9) years of experience managing multiple IT and business projects
    • Note: Highest completed degree in the following majors: Computer Science, Business Management, or Project Management will count towards the minimum nine (9) years of required work experience.
  • Associates degree counts as two years of experience
  • Bachelor's degree or higher counts as four years of experience

 

  • two (2) or more years in a lead role that required collaboration across multiple divisions with stakeholders from varying organizational levels.
  • PMP or PgMP Certification
  • CSM or SAFe Certification
  • 2 years’ experience with MS Projec
  • 1 years’ experience with Azure Dev Ops
  • 1 years’ experience with Jira
  • 1 years’ experience with GitHub

 

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Certifications

  • CompTIA Security+
  • Cisco (CCNP)
  • Palo Alto Networks (PCNSE) or CISSP
  • Azure Fundamentals – AZ-900

 

Skills

  • Experience with PPM tools
  • Cybersecurity: CISSP, CISM
  • Networking: CCNA, CCNP
  • Infrastructure: ITIL, Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS)

 

II. WORKER SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Please fill in the "Actual Years Experience" column

Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

Years
Experience
Needed

Required/
Preferred

Skills/Experience

 

Required

High school diploma or GED AND nine (9) years of experience managing multiple IT and business projects

Note: Highest completed degree in the following majors: Computer Science, Business Management, or Project Management will count towards the minimum nine (9) years of required work experience.

  • Associates degree counts as two years of experience
  • Bachelor's degree or higher counts as four years of experience

 

Required

two (2) or more years in a lead role that required collaboration across multiple divisions with stakeholders from varying organizational levels.

 

Required

PMP or PgMP Certification

 

Required

CSM or SAFe Certification

2

Required

2 years’ experience with MS Project

1

Required

1 years’ experience with Azure Dev Ops

1

Required

1 years’ experience with Jira

1

Required

1 years’ experience with GitHub

 

Preferred

Certifications: CompTIA Security+, Cisco (CCNP), Palo Alto Networks (PCNSE) or CISSP, or Azure Fundamentals – AZ-900

 

Preferred

Experience with PPM tools

 

Preferred

Cybersecurity: CISSP, CISM

 

Preferred

Networking: CCNA, CCNP

 

Preferred

Infrastructure: ITIL, Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS)