Sr. Project Manager

Sr. Project Manager

ANNAPOLIS, MD

12+ months

Roles and Responsibilities:

Manage and support projects associated with the various court system applications and infrastructure, and other attorney related systems.

Involve in application upgrade projects, and projects to migrate applications from client based to web-based access. These projects will involve multiple units within JIS and require overall planning, tracking, and oversight.

Provide senior level project management and strategic planning support for this and related projects as assigned.

Create and update project plans and schedules.

Analyze and assess new project tasks against the project plan.

Coordinate project activities with both internal JIS and external parties as needed.

Ensure the creation and review of designated project deliverables.

Schedule and facilitate planning and status meetings.

Provide project status meeting minutes and status reports as designated.

Create and deliver project presentations to senior and executive Judiciary management as needed.

Represent JIS and the PMO in inter-agency forums and planning meetings as needed.

Requirement identification and traceability.

Creation of work breakdown structures.

Timeline planning.

Risk identification and mitigation.

Monitor budget and spend.

Stakeholder communication.

Required Skills:

Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, and to establish and maintain effective working relationships with peers, end users and vendor development staff, as well as all levels of management and judicial personnel as necessary.

Minimum 10 years of total IT experience.

Minimum 5 years large project experience, including project management.

Experience with systems development methodologies and project management practices.

Experience with the identification and documentation of business and technical systems requirements.

Ability to review project activities to assess adequacy of management practices and risk mitigation efforts.

Excellent problem solving and collaboration skills.

Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Planning and management reporting experience.

Ability to work effectively within a diverse IT organization.

Judicial court business knowledge of financial and accounting procedures highly desired.

Bachelors Degree in Information Systems or computing related degree.

PMP Certification