Project Manager

The Project Management Office is looking for individuals to join the PMO as a resource to be assigned as needed. Assignment can be with any department within the clients needs, dependent on the need. Project Managers support a broad portfolio of Maine's strategic initiatives, supporting all sixteen agencies under the Executive Branch. As a member of the Project Management Team, you will have the opportunity to work with a dynamic group of internal/external business and IT partners and be accountable for leading project teams to achieve their deliverable goals on time with a high level of quality. This position will be responsible for several concurrent projects spanning multiple agencies, offices, and teams, from impact assessment through to implementation, using defined project methodologies such as Agile, and requires the use of independent judgment, initiative, and discretion.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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.