Sr IT Project Manager (Remote - Michigan)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serve as the point of contact and client interface for project technology related issues.
- Manage project expectations, evaluate project needs, and communicate with stakeholders to ensure that program needs are met with respect to urgency and priority.
- Develop trust, credibility, and strong client relationships; seeks opportunities to add value to internal and external client initiatives.
- Review all project deliverables to ensure quality and accuracy meet project, stakeholder, and contractual standards.
- Execute all project management functions including; work breakdown and cost estimation, scheduling, monitoring and tracking of technical progress against the defined timetables and budgets, and staff assignment and development.
- Lead and direct the successful delivery of application development, systems integration, infrastructure, and product installation/customization services while ensuring that assigned projects adhere to the approved life cycle work patterns, standards, and procedures for solution delivery.
- Define and implement development plans for assigned projects.

- Typically responsible for providing guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within job area.

- Ensure staff is knowledgeable on the applications and technologies in use on the project and that project team understands and follows processes and procedures.
- Provide detailed direction during various stages of the lifecycle to include requirements analysis, testing, and potentially programming support.
- Identify and assess new functional capabilities supporting engineering change proposals and additional follow on work.
- Identify, track, manage, and communicate risks and issues with stakeholders and upper management.
- Coordinate, prepare, and manage technical presentations and functional demonstrations to internal and external stakeholders.

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 7+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

- Bachelor's degree required.

- Excellent communication and organization skills required.

- Ability to motivate and guide staff to ensure accurate, efficient, and timely delivery of service required.

- Project Management Professional or Scrum Certification required.

- Lean Six Sigma certification preferred.

- Experience with project planning for both business and technology required.

- Experience with project budgeting and financial schedules required.

- Michigan residency or willingness to relocate to the State of Michigan required.

- Ability to travel for work up to 15% of the time required.

- Must have at least 5 years of managing large-scale projects, preferably within State/Local Health & Human Services Call Center Operations of at least 350 staff.

Home Office Requirements:

- Internet speed of 20mbps or higher required (you can test this by going to www.speedtest.net).

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