Job Details

Project Manager 3 - Region 5

Location:

Columbus

Contract type:

Temporary & Contract

Sector:

Business Operations

Salary:

$49.00 - $51.00 Per Hour

Job Ref:

480662

Date published:

08-May-2025

Job Description:
  • The Project Manager directs, controls, and administers programs and projects within the organization. 
  • The Program Manager is the individual ultimately responsible for execution of assigned projects and management of the project team. 
  • The Project Manager’s primary responsibility is to drive initiatives from start to finish. 
  • The Project Manager must ensure that the program/project is completed on schedule and that the final product meets the established business and quality requirements. 

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Manages the complete lifecycle of projects and/or programs, including initiation, planning, execution, and closure.
  • Assess needs of the program and/or organization to generate requirements, proposals, and work products.
  • Develop a detailed program/project plan, including identification of project needs and definition of tasks and milestones, all based on scope, budget, and resources.
  • Accountable for delivery of all work tasks identified in the program/project plan.
  • Responsible for the capture and reporting of required program/project management metrics.
  • Ensure all changes to scope follow established change procedures and are documented.
  • Accountable for management of scope for the program/project and gaining agreement and approval of scope changes with project sponsor and affected stakeholders.
  • Manage and track the program/project progress against the program/project plan.
  • Monitor project milestones and phases to ensure the project is on schedule.
  • Take corrective actions if a project begins to slip its schedule.
  • Prepares status reports on a weekly basis for program/project team, project sponsor(s), team leads, group leads, and appropriate stakeholders.
  • Plan, organize, prioritize, and manage multiple work efforts across teams.
  • Responsible to tailor and baseline all program/project templates.
  • Accountable to schedule or monitor status reviews, peer reviews, program/project management inspections, and software quality assurance work product and process reviews with the appropriate designated resources.
  • Notify team leads of project timelines, milestones, phases, work requests, and target dates.
  • Communicate and work with users, external partners/vendors, and other State agencies as necessary.
  • Oversee contracts and operations with external vendors supporting the program and organization.
  • Analyze and distribute reports on program/project metrics associated with work items.
  • Accountable for the approval and sign-off of the program/project plan from project sponsor and all affected program/project stakeholders.
  • Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and project sponsors.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for all program/project-related issues and resolution of issues.
  • Coordinate and present proposals to agencies as necessary.
  • Identify and manage program/project risk and develop risk mitigation strategies, track to closure.
  • Anticipate issues and proactively address them.
  • Identify and track issues.
  • Responsible to tailor and baseline all program/project templates.
  • Develop and facilitate achievement of program/project service commitments and performance metrics.
  • Ensure that tasks provide value and support the strategic direction of the program/project and meet service commitments, conduct reviews with stakeholders.
  • Accountable for the final program/project management evaluation review with stakeholders for approval upon program/project completion.
  • Communicate effectively with customers and software / hardware suppliers supporting the State as appropriate.
  • Balance workload with program/project team members’ capacity.
  • Communicate to team members on how their work assignments relate to and help achieve program/project objectives.
  • Plan program/project specific training and orientation needs.
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