Senior Project Manager

About This Role

Lead Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) support services for enhancements to a client healthcare program, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and compliance with healthcare regulations. Implement project management best practices and strengthen portfolio management frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Deliver centralized project management capabilities to oversee and strategically manage changes, risks, and issues across client IT and non-IT project portfolios
• Facilitate alignment between strategic initiatives and project execution to ensure department-wide consistency and visibility
• Develop enterprise-wide project management processes and workflows
• Create project fiscal estimation models to guide budget planning and resource allocation
• Design comprehensive Project Manager Toolkits to support day-to-day execution
• Implement the client-specific Project Management Lifecycle (PMLC)
• Formalize the EPMO organizational structure and develop processes and standards to support a Project Management Center of Excellence (PMCoE)
• Provide expert support and guidance on the Project Approval Lifecycle (PAL) and implement a standardized project intake process
• Enhance client document review and approval workflows and develop project resource estimation models
• Provide strategic support to build internal project management capabilities within the Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) workforce

Requirements

• 7+ years applying Project Management principles, methods, techniques, and tools
• 4+ years as a senior Project Manager on large or complex IT projects
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• Valid Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.
• 7+ years of broad, extensive and increasingly responsible experience applying Project Management principles, methods, techniques, and tools, with at least 4 years as a senior PM of one or more large or complex IT projects.

Nice to Have

• 1-5 years experience centralizing project management services for executive leadership
• 1-5 years advancing project management discipline within project teams
• 1-5 years helping an EPMO build and mature project portfolio management methodology
• 1-5 years experience working with the California Department of Technology’s Project Approval Lifecycle (CDT-PAL) process
• 1-5 years experience working on federally funded IT or non-IT projects for the state

Skills

* Required skills

Certifications