Head of Project Management

Key Responsibilities
Lead the end-to-end project lifecycle, from planning and requirements through implementation and decommissioning.
Develop and maintain project schedules, budgets, scope baselines, and benefits realization plans.
Manage vendors, procurement activities, deliverables, timelines, budgets, and quality.
Coordinate enterprise system replacement, data migration, integration, testing, and deployment.
Ensure compliance with applicable legislation, judicial directives, policies, and probation standards.
Manage stakeholder engagement across all 23 judicial districts.
Lead organizational change management, communications, training, and user adoption.
Identify and mitigate project risks, issues, and dependencies.
Prepare executive status reports and facilitate leadership decisions and escalations.
Plan cutover and statewide rollout while ensuring uninterrupted probation operations.
Coordinate data exchanges with criminal justice partner agencies through CICJIS.
Support human-centered design, user testing, and feedback from frontline staff.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Information Systems, Business, Public Administration, Criminal Justice, or a related field. Equivalent relevant experience may substitute year for year.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible project management experience.
• 5+ years leading large, complex technology implementations involving multiple vendors and stakeholder groups.
• Experience managing multi-year project schedules.
• Proven experience with enterprise system replacement projects involving data migration and organizational change management.
• Ability to pass a criminal background check.
• Must be local to Denver, Colorado.

Preferred Qualifications
PMP, PgMP, or equivalent project management certification.
Agile and/or change management certifications.
Strong Waterfall project management experience.
Experience combining Waterfall governance and procurement controls with Agile delivery.
Experience with COTS solutions or configurable SaaS platforms in the public sector.
Experience managing geographically distributed teams and stakeholders across urban and rural locations.
Key Skills
Strategic project and program management
Waterfall, Agile, and hybrid methodologies
Enterprise application modernization and replacement
Data migration and system integration
Vendor and procurement management
Executive stakeholder engagement and governance
Risk, issue, budget, and schedule management
Organizational change management and training
Business process improvement and user adoption
Legislative and policy compliance
Strong communication, facilitation, and decision-making skills