Project Manager

Company: Govan Systems Inc
Location: Des Moines
Posted on: February 9, 2025

Job Description:

The PM will be part of a PMO team responsible for all aspects of IT project governance, assessment, management, and control. The ability to gather and define requirements; build a project plan; identifying resource needs; and transparent, clear communications across all levels of stakeholders. Essential is the ability to multi-task on continually changing and morphing priorities as prescribed by leadership in response to department and legislative direction.

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Local Candidates Required - Position Requires Onsite 3 Days/Week

Duties

--- Ability to work within a project governance structure (methodology, required templates and reporting)

--- Ability to interact with, educate, learn from, and drive business and IT teams.

--- Ability to work effectively under very broad direction with general supervision.

--- Ability to motivate team and meet deadlines in a fast-paced and challenging environment.

--- Ability to gather and organize multiple simultaneous complex business process scenarios.

--- Ability to break down complex tasks into actionable work items, sequenced appropriately.

--- Ability to manage scope creep with a focus on delivering a minimum viable product.

--- Excellent organizational, presentation, interpersonal and team building skills.

--- Excellent time management and project planning/strategizing skills

--- Strong verbal and written communication skills

--- Demonstrated experience with managing client expectations, implementing service improvement initiatives.

--- Demonstrated experience managing multiple parallel work efforts.

--- Track project progress, monitor and modify project schedules and provide status updates to project team. Escalate issues to management and/or appropriate leadership as appropriate.

--- Provide insight and knowledge into improving processes related to portfolio, project and program management.

--- Other duties or tasks as assigned by management.


Direct management of system integration projects
Required
8
Years
Experience managing stakeholder expectations and priorities
Required
8
Years
Experience working within a project governance structure (methodology, required templates and reporting)
Required
8
Years
Extensive experience with planning, managing and tracking multiple major impact projects
Required
8
Years
Strong process development skills, w/ the ability to learn and understand concepts in order to interpret, document and formalize procedures
Required
8
Years
Strong process and gap analysis skills
Required
8
Years
Excellent project management skills, w/ the ability to multitask and manage multiple tasks with changing priorities in a cross-functional environment
Required
8
Years
Demonstrated experience with working with business users to gather and document business requirements
Required
6
Years
Demonstrate ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and project activities simultaneously while meeting established deadlines
Required
6
Years

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