Overview
Schedule
Full-time
Education
PMP
Career level
Director
Remote
On-site
Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Job Description
This position is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Project Manager III - E52EAnnual Salary: $95,000 + Full State Employee Benefits
Travel is Occasional- Must possess a valid driver's license and must maintain required car insurance.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Education and Experience requirements at this level consist of a bachelor’s degree in business administration, computer science, information systems management, public health, or related scientific or technical discipline and five years of experience in project management,
- OR a combination of education and experience.
Job Duties:
- Leads complex, high-priority, and cross-functional projects from concept through closeout, ensuring projects are delivered within approved scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
- Develops and maintains comprehensive project management plans, schedules, work breakdown structures, risk and issue registers, decision logs, action item tracking, and other required project documentation.
- Facilitates project planning sessions with business, technical, operational, financial, procurement, and other stakeholders to establish project objectives, scope, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and success criteria.
- Coordinates the work of cross-functional project teams and subject matter experts, ensuring responsibilities, timelines, and expectations are clearly defined and communicated.
- Manages project schedules and dependencies, identifies potential impacts to critical milestones, and develops mitigation or recovery strategies when projects fall behind schedule.
- Identifies, assesses, monitors, and communicates project risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies; develops mitigation and escalation strategies as appropriate.
- Facilitates project decisions by identifying decision points, gathering relevant information, evaluating options, documenting recommendations, and ensuring decisions are communicated to impacted stakeholders.
- Monitors project scope and manages changes through established change control processes, assessing impacts to schedule, budget, resources, requirements, and project outcomes.
- Tracks project budgets, expenditures, forecasts, and resource requirements in collaboration with business and financial stakeholders.
- Develops and delivers project status reports, executive-level presentations, dashboards, and other communications to provide leadership with clear visibility into project health, progress, risks, issues, and decisions.
- Facilitates project meetings, working sessions, and governance activities, ensuring meetings are focused on outcomes and that decisions and action items are documented and followed through.
- Establishes and maintains effective relationships with project sponsors, stakeholders, vendors, technical teams, business partners, and organizational leadership.
- Coordinates vendor and procurement activities as applicable, including requirements development, procurement planning, vendor deliverables, contract milestones, and vendor performance monitoring.
- Ensures project deliverables and outcomes align with organizational strategies, business needs, regulatory requirements, policies, and established standards.
- Works closely with technical teams to translate business objectives into actionable requirements, technical deliverables, implementation activities, and project milestones.
- Anticipates project challenges and proactively develops solutions, escalating matters when appropriate and providing recommendations to project sponsors and leadership.
- Ensures appropriate project documentation is maintained throughout the project lifecycle and that lessons learned, final deliverables, outstanding items, and operational handoffs are completed during project closeout.
- Provides guidance, mentoring, and knowledge sharing to Project Managers and project team members on project management practices, tools, processes, and governance requirements.
- Supports the development, improvement, and standardization of project management processes, templates, methodologies, and governance practices within the PMO.
- May lead multiple projects simultaneously and effectively prioritize competing demands for shared resources, organizational capacity, and stakeholder attention.
- Performs other related duties and responsibilities as assigned.
If you have questions, please contact DHS.Careers@okdhs.org
OKDHS is a Fair Chance Employer.
This is a position in the Oklahoma Civil Service.
Announcement Number: 26-JD258
P103007/JR66930
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Oklahoma Human Services lists this role as a Full-time position.
What experience level is required for this role at Oklahoma Human Services?
Oklahoma Human Services is looking for a candidate with "Director" experience level.
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The education requirement for this position is PMP. Candidates with relevant qualifications or equivalent experience may also be considered.
What benefits are offered by Oklahoma Human Services for this role?
Oklahoma Human Services offers following benefits: Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Disability Insurance, Life Insurance, Family/Dependent Health, and Paid Vacation for this position. Actual benefits may vary depending on the employer's policies and employment terms.
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