Project Manager - ONSITE

The Project Manager is responsible for the successful execution of a project from impact assessment through to implementation. This position is responsible for applying appropriate knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to manage medium to large projects. Project activities include, but are not limited to, establishing clear and achievable objectives, planning, and directing people to reach objectives while balancing competing demands for quality, scope, time, and cost, and adapting to different concerns and expectations of stakeholders. A professional project manager should be able to manage a project without extensive knowledge of the subject matter. This position is responsible for mentoring others and contributing to continual improvement of project management knowledge and skill in the organization.
We are currently recruiting for a Project Manager to work with the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) to enact the P20W LDS grant work. This position will be responsible for ensuring all 6 grant outcomes are tracked and completed through the grant lifecycle. This position will be expected to work with the selected vendor, eScholar, to ensure the P20W Data warehouse infrastructure is stood up, the APIs for the various data exchanges are coordinated with other departments as needed, and the Generate project is shifted from on prem to a cloud hosted environment. This includes working with the MDOE Application Development group to ensure work is recorded in their backlog as required. Additionally, the project manager will work closely with the OIT technical teams to ensure that all OIT and State of Maine policies are followed, and requirements are met.

Key Responsibilities:

Required Skills:

• Utilizes strong project management skills and the corporate standard system development methodology (or other industry methodology) to manage assigned projects.
• Identifies project stakeholders and manages communication with the project stakeholders.
• Delivers results for mid to large size project initiatives within established timeframes and quality measures.
• Develops and implements communication and reporting mechanisms to manage issues, risks, and timely delivery of initiative results.
• Consults with business leaders to translate a project idea into a defined project with goals, objectives, and scope.
• Translates project goals/objectives into a defined future state and project success measures that can be understood by project stakeholders, project team and others.
• Ensures business needs and objectives are effectively captured in functional and non-functional business requirements for a system and/or process/workflow and traces delivery of requirements through testing and final implementation.
• Identifies 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.
• Direct resources on assigned projects and ensure clarity of project roles and responsibilities
• Provides regular executive-level updates on assigned projects to Department, PMO, and OIT leadership
• Manages 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.