DBHDS - Sr Project Manager 4 - Calsoft Labs

Short Description:
Sr Project Manager
ON SITE REQUIRED: 2 days in the office. Parking is not provided for contractors
**Duration: Work expected to go to the end of 2025.
MAX VENDOR RATE: ***

Complete Description:
Sr Project Manager
ON SITE REQUIRED: 2 days in the office. Parking is not provided for contractors
**Duration: Work expected to go to the end of 2025.


ABOUT THE ROLE


Sr Project Manager will be responsible for successfully planning, organizing, and motivating diverse project teams throughout all phases of Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid projects.

"Coordinate vendors and consultants, and DBHDS and business staff as assigned, in the execution of Business & IT projects and related procurements.
"Coordinate and oversee the development of proposals, statement of work, statement of requirements and RFP responses.
"Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments and removing roadblocks to their work.
"Manage deadlines and push the team to ensure timeliness.
"Facilitate multi-disciplinary teams in the development of plans, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures for completion of a project.
"Oversee and manage execution and/or coordination of day-to-day project activities as required.
"Manage working relationships with key stakeholders, including executive management, business management, vendors, project sponsors, suppliers, and technology management.
"Track and communicate a project's progress from a schedule, cost, and risk perspective to the project team, customers, and project stakeholders.
"Collaborate with external (vendor / Suppliers)and internal technology leads and solution architects to incorporate agency best practices into project plans.
"Drive consistent project delivery through the entire project lifecycle, including, execution of procurements, definition of project plans, resource allocation, management of project risks, scope, and schedule, delivery of value, and well-ordered transitions to operations.
"Monitor progress by third-party vendors and define and measure their progress with metrics.
"Develop and maintain project budget, plans, task lists, schedules, risks, and status, to include resource allocation and schedules.
"Adhere to DBHDS and VITA project management practices and governance requirements.
"Facilitates resolution of technical issues
"Leads and coordinates the scoping, technical requirements gathering, estimating and planning for single or multiple work-streams

Required / Desired Skills and Amount of Experience:
Strong experience in developing, executing, and managing cloud hosted SaaS implementation projects Required 5 Years
Strong experience in working with third party suppliers and COT s products Required 5 Years
Strong analytical, organizational, problem solving and decision-making skills Required 5 Years
Exceptional interpersonal skills for collaborating and team building Required 5 Years
Exceptional interpersonal skills for collaborating and team building Required 5 Years
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the demonstrated ability to simplify and briefly, succinctly communicate complex issues to Required 5 Years
Exceptional knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall project management principles and practices. In addition, the ability to blend them together in th Required 5 Years
Understands process, recognizing potential issues and consequences of changes during Software Development Lifecycle Required 5 Years
Ability to understand technology at the level to help represent project team in multiple forums. Required 5 Years
Ability to run scrum, kanban or waterfall project management best practices. Required 4 Years
PMP Certification through PMI OR Qualified under Commonwealth of Virginia Qualification Standards (VITA) Certified PM Required 5 Years
Expedience in Healthcare Desired 3 Years
Experience with the core Commonwealth IT procurement processes (RFP, VITA Statewide Contract, and CAI SOW) Desired 3 Years
Experience with VITA s Commonwealth Technology Portfolio (CTP) system and ECOS process Desired 3 Years
Questions:
Question 1 Commonwealth of Virginia security policies prohibit the use of offshore IT contractors. Do you attest to the fact that your candidate will physically reside within the US for the duration of the assignment?
Question 2 Please list candidate's email address.
Question 3 In what city and state does your candidate currently reside? If you put Richmond and the candidate's phn# and locations on resume do not confirm they are local to RVA then PLEASE upload either a recent (local) utility bill or driver's license with their name and local RVA address to confirm this. Do this AT TIME OF SUBMIITAL as I may not have time to revisit their submittal on the day resumes are due to the mgr.
Question 4 If selected role requires 2 days on site each week. Does your candidate agree to this arrangement?
Question 5 If you indicate your candidate has the DESIRED skills listed in the SKILLS MATRIX above, please make sure they are clearly reflected on the resume as I will be looking for them and will expect to see the details. Otherwise put "No".
Question 6 Either an Active PMP cert OR VITA cert is REQUIRED. Please upload a copy under the REFERENCE tab or I will not consider your candidate if its not there.