Dutech’s Job

• Provides overall leadership, direction, and oversight of communications and status requests for all aspects of the integrated projects and sub-projects

• Enforces Committee-established project roles and responsibilities.

• Identifies and plans for needed resources.

• Assists with and manages project and timelines, including the sequence and cadence.

• In coordination with any assigned HHS employee or contractor, facilitates workgroups to:

o Gather comprehensive, detailed requirements and associated documentation for the MIS solicitation,

o Negotiate terms with the current MIS contractor that enable a clear, defensible solicitation,

o Determine the solicitation type and develop a clear, defensible solicitation,

o Identify issues with user community states and ITOs and resolve them timely,

o Identify issues with USDA FNS and resolve them timely,

o Coordinate EBT to MIS interface development milestones, timelines, and statement of work to include user testing,

o Identify grocer readiness milestones and track progress, escalate risks, and

o Determine the ideal consortium structure, including governance.

• Develops, maintains, stores and archives project plans, artifacts, and required documentation for each contract, project, and subproject in coordination with the project team.

• Serves as the primary point of contact for executive project communications and status reporting.

• Coordinates executive 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 - 130K Per Annum

CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• 8 years of experience: Developing clear, concise project documentation.
• 8 years of experience: Team management through team meetings, task assignment, mentoring, facilitation, and training.
• 8 years of experience: Progress monitoring and use of risk management practices.
• 8 years of experience: Ability to keep leadership informed on project issues and progress.
• 8 years of experience: Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• 8 years of experience: Speed to decision in a complex, large organization.
• 8 years of experience: Effective management of resources in a mixed functional and matrixed project environment.
• 8 years of experience: Expert problem resolution skills.
• 8 years of experience: Comprehensive experience with Waterfall and Agile project management lifecycles.
• 8 years of experience: Experience with Microsoft Project, Office, Visio, and dashboard tools, such as PowerBI, Tableau.
• 8 years of experience: Experience with managing multiple competing priorities, conflict management, and negotiation/facilitation.

Preferred Requirements:

• 3 years of experience: Experience leading highly complex strategic transformation and business-process re-engineering efforts.
• 3 years of experience: Experience in highly complex IT procurements with a Texas state agency.
• 3 years of experience: Experience managing matrixed organizational and cross-divisional initiatives.
• 3 years of experience: Experience managing projects for a Health and Human Services agency.
• 1 year of experience: Experience with WIC technology ecosystem.
• 1 year of experience: Experience with projects in a Microsoft Dynamics/Azure Environment.