Duties Description

• Lead project teams to ensure all assigned projects are delivered on time, in scope, and within budget.
• Escalate any issues by assisting in resolving project issues and determining remediation.
• Recommend and implement process improvement opportunities for the project team and overall projects.
• Utilize industry best practices, techniques, and standards throughout the entire project life cycle.
• Actively analyze and manage interdependencies between integration of project plans and processes.
• Direct and manage the work defined in project management plans.
• Track, review, update, and report on project progress.
• Review, approve or reject, and manage the impact of change requests, and communicate decisions.
• Define scope including identifying and clarifying the business need, define project goals, identify what is in and out of scope, critical success factors, project constraints, and key deliverables.
• Develop a project schedule using Microsoft Project including defining tasks, identifying dependencies, assigning resources, estimating effort, identifying critical path, and controlling the schedule.
• Create a plan for cost management and control costs.
• Manage communications to ensure all project stakeholders are kept informed.
• Perform risk management throughout the project lifecycle to minimize impact to the project and escalate to management as appropriate.
• Review deliverables, document project closure, transition to operations, and archive project records for use on future projects.
• Attend appropriate courses, conferences, forums, and webinars to advance knowledge and understanding in project management tools and techniques and learn about best practices, including the agile methodology.
• Keep abreast of developments in the Project Management Institute (PMI) and Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK).
• Assist staff with developing and understanding performance expectations and goals.
• Assist with establishing training goals to ensure staff receive the training necessary to further develop their project management knowledge and soft skills.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and guidance around project management and facilitation skills.
• Provide guidance and direction to staff.
• Ensure staff are aware of and adhere to the organization’s policies and procedures.
• Manage staff head count with interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and separating staff.
• Manage staff workload and identify priorities as necessary.
• Identify opportunities for knowledge and skills development. Encourage, motivate, and guide in learning and improving processes.
• Provide real-time feedback on staff performance.
• Assist with coordinating the agency’s Project Management Community of Practice.
• Assess the agency project management training needs and update training classes provided by the Program Management Office (PgMO).
• Deliver training such as the Project Management Training Series and the Everyday PM training classes for the internship program and for agency staff.
• Assist in providing direction to the PgMO marketing group for marketing project management services.
• Assist in contributing marketing ideas and materials to increase in the Office of the State Comptroller’s (OSC) awareness of best practices in project management.