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JOB TITLE: Project Manager 3
Location: Augusta-ME
LENGTH: Long Term.
START DATE: 08/30/2021
Job Description
Responsibilities will include initiating, developing, organizing, and producing project plans;
detecting risks; influencing/developing and implementing policy and procedure changes;
identifying comprehensive strategic policies and methods that support operational business
requirements; managing project audits, assessment, corrective actions, and best practices. PM
will participate in defining scope, dependencies, project approach, will assist with the creations
of communication plans, risk and decision registers and other assets. A professional project
manager should be able to manage a project without extensive knowledge of the subject
matter. This position is responsible for contributing to continual improvement of project
management knowledge and skill in the organization.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Project Management:
• Deliver results for small to mid-sized project initiatives within established timeframes and
quality measures.
• Prepare new or remediated project assets that may be managed by an executing PM.
• Direct resources on assigned projects and ensure clarity of project roles and responsibilities.
• Identify project stakeholders and manage communication with the project stakeholders.
• Consult with business leaders to translate a project idea into a defined project with goals,
objectives, and scope.
• Identify resources needed, negotiates with people managers as required to lead project
teams, ensuring clarity of project roles and responsibilities, so that all project plans are
completed within defined timeframes, meeting objectives and strategic goals.
• Develop and implement communication and reporting mechanisms to manage issues, risks,
and timely delivery of initiative results. Translates project goals/objectives into a defined future
state and project success measures that can be understood by project stakeholders, project
team and others.
• Ensure business needs and objectives are effectively captured in functional and non-
functional business requirements for a system and/or process/workflow.
• Oversee business requirements to meet expected business solutions and trace delivery of
requirements through testing and final implementation, with mentoring by a more experienced
project manager, as needed. General understanding of business requirement management and
quality management in order to meet expected business solutions.
• Manage project quality through activities such as conducting appropriate reviews, obtaining
approvals, taking corrective action when necessary, with mentoring by a more experienced
project manager, if applicable.
• Ensure that project documentation is complete and current.
• Articulate project management best practices with peer group, as applicable.
Leadership:
• Proactively establishes and maintains cooperative, productive partnerships on current
project/deliverables.
• Promote the benefits of change and act as a catalyst for change within the organization, as
well as adapts to changes imposed by others.
• Organize and guides the activities of the project team. Prioritizes tasks to meet deliverables
and commitments on time. Ensures that project member's time and experience is well utilized.
Recommends alternatives/options to minimize any schedule delay.
• Share project experience/knowledge and mentor others to help build project management
skills
• Any combination of education or experience equivalent to a bachelor's degree with five years
of project management experience.
• In depth knowledge/understanding of the PM methodology and a broad
understanding/awareness of SDLC methodologies.
• Strong understanding of government organization is preferred.
• Strong ability to work effectively in a business and technical environment.
• Effectively uses technical project management tools.
• Strong initiative and ability to set stretch goals.
• Strong ability to negotiate effectively with business and IT partners on business requirements
and timeframes on mid-size initiatives.
• Strong ability to rally support among peers and work effectively within challenging situations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to balance the need to gather
detail with the need to solve the problem.
• Strong general management skills including:
o Strong conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
o Strong facilitation and elicitation skills.
o Strong consultative advisory skills.
o Strong ability to effectively articulate difficult ideas and concepts through clear and concise
verbal and/or written communication.
o Strong ability to identify and apply different communication mediums based on a content and
audience at all levels (both internal and external to Maine gov) to achieve intended goal.
• Advanced PC skills required (Excel, Power Point, Word, etc.)
Top 3 Skills.
1) Project Management.
2) Communication Management.
3) Risk Management.
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Last updated on Aug 11, 2021