Job Description

The Senior Project Manager will provide overall project planning, coordination, execution, monitoring, and delivery management for assigned initiatives. This position will work closely with State stakeholders, business and technical teams, vendors, and project leadership to ensure project activities, milestones, deliverables, risks, and dependencies are effectively managed through successful completion and acceptance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, schedules, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, resource assignments, and target completion dates.

• Manage day-to-day project execution and ensure activities remain aligned with approved scope, schedule, priorities, and project objectives.

• Monitor project progress against established timelines and proactively identify schedule delays, resource constraints, dependencies, and other delivery concerns.

• Plan, schedule, and facilitate project meetings, status meetings, working sessions, stakeholder reviews, and leadership discussions.

• Prepare meeting agendas, presentations, supporting materials, meeting minutes, decisions, and action items and ensure appropriate follow-up.

• Establish and maintain RAID logs , including project risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies, and drive mitigation and resolution activities with responsible stakeholders.

• Identify and escalate critical risks, issues, decisions, and blockers requiring management or State stakeholder attention.

• Prepare weekly and monthly project status reports covering accomplishments, upcoming activities, schedule status, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and overall project health.

• Coordinate activities across business, technical, functional, testing, implementation, vendor, and State stakeholder teams to maintain alignment and timely delivery.

• Track project deliverables and ensure required reviews, approvals, and dependencies are completed according to the project schedule.

• Manage project scope and coordinate evaluation of changes that may affect timelines, resources, deliverables, or overall project objectives.

• Maintain project documentation, decision logs, action-item trackers, schedules, status reports, acceptance records, and other project management artifacts.

• Coordinate testing, implementation readiness, deployment planning, training, and other activities required to support major project milestones.

• Manage the deliverable review and acceptance process , ensuring completed deliverables are submitted to appropriate stakeholders, reviewed against defined acceptance criteria, and formally approved.

• Track stakeholder feedback, required revisions, acceptance decisions, and outstanding items through final resolution and sign-off.

• Provide clear communication between State leadership, business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and project resources regarding priorities, progress, risks, and decisions.

• Support project governance and executive reporting by providing accurate information on schedule, scope, deliverables, risks, dependencies, and overall project performance.

• Ensure project commitments are completed on time, properly documented, and aligned with established quality and acceptance requirements.

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