Dutech’s Job

• Provides overall leadership, direction, and oversight of all aspects of the projects. 
• Enforces Committee-established project roles and responsibilities. 
• Identifies and plans for needed resources.
• Assists with and manages project and procurement timelines, including the sequence and cadence.
• In coordination with any assigned employee or contractor to facilitate and manage various project times and resources to ensure a successful procurement
• Develops, maintains, stores and archives project plans, artifacts, and required documentation for each procurement, project, and subproject in coordination with the project team.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for project communications and status reporting.
• Coordinates stakeholder participation in project planning, execution, change control, and closeout, maximizing involvement during each.
• Performs risk management, to include identifying and documenting risks, and recommending and employing risk-mitigation strategies.
• Performs other duties as assigned as required to complete each project.

Salary Range: 120K to 130K Per Annum 

CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

1. Program Management: Minimum of 8 years of IT program management experience, demonstrating excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

2. Team Management: Lead teams through effective team meetings, task assignment, mentoring, facilitation, and training.

3. Progress Monitoring and Risk Management: Employ progress monitoring and risk management practices, keeping leadership informed on project issues and progress.

4. Resource Management: Effectively manage resources in a mixed functional and matrixed project environment.

5. Problem Resolution: Apply expert problem resolution skills to address challenges and obstacles.

6. Project Management Lifecycles: Demonstrate comprehensive experience with Waterfall and Agile project management lifecycles, from analysis and planning to development and deployment/implementation.

7. Budget Management: Successfully manage complex projects with a multi-year budget of $10 million or more.

8. Microsoft Project and Office Tools: Utilize experience with Microsoft Project, Office, Visio, and dashboard tools such as PowerBI or Tableau for efficient project management.

9. Multi-Step Selection Methods: Apply experience with multi-step selection methods for effective decision-making.

10. Priority Management: Manage multiple competing priorities, conflicts, and negotiation/facilitation.

Preferred Experience:

1. Minimum of 5 years of experience leading highly complex strategic transformation and business-process re-engineering efforts.

2. Minimum of 5 years of experience in highly complex IT procurements with a Texas state agency.

3. Minimum of 3 years of work experience managing matrixed organizational and cross-divisional initiatives.

4. Minimum of 3 years of work experience managing projects for state and federal agencies.

5. Minimum of 2 years of work experience in the Medicaid/Healthcare industry.

6. Certification as a Texas Contract Developer/Manager is preferred.