Project Manager

This position is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Project Manager III - E52E Annual Salary: $95,000 + Full State Employee Benefits

Travel is Occasional - Must possess a valid driver's license and must maintain required car insurance.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education and Experience requirements at this level consist of a bachelor’s degree in business administration, computer science, information systems management, public health, or related scientific or technical discipline and five years of experience in project management,
• OR a combination of education and experience.

Job Duties:

• Leads complex, high-priority, and cross-functional projects from concept through closeout, ensuring projects are delivered within approved scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
• Develops and maintains comprehensive project management plans, schedules, work breakdown structures, risk and issue registers, decision logs, action item tracking, and other required project documentation.
• Facilitates project planning sessions with business, technical, operational, financial, procurement, and other stakeholders to establish project objectives, scope, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and success criteria.
• Coordinates the work of cross-functional project teams and subject matter experts, ensuring responsibilities, timelines, and expectations are clearly defined and communicated.
• Manages project schedules and dependencies, identifies potential impacts to critical milestones, and develops mitigation or recovery strategies when projects fall behind schedule.
• Identifies, assesses, monitors, and communicates project risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies; develops mitigation and escalation strategies as appropriate.
• Facilitates project decisions by identifying decision points, gathering relevant information, evaluating options, documenting recommendations, and ensuring decisions are communicated to impacted stakeholders.
• Monitors project scope and manages changes through established change control processes, assessing impacts to schedule, budget, resources, requirements, and project outcomes.
• Tracks project budgets, expenditures, forecasts, and resource requirements in collaboration with business and financial stakeholders.
• Develops and delivers project status reports, executive-level presentations, dashboards, and other communications to provide leadership with clear visibility into project health, progress, risks, issues, and decisions.
• Facilitates project meetings, working sessions, and governance activities, ensuring meetings are focused on outcomes and that decisions and action items are documented and followed through.
• Establishes and maintains effective relationships with project sponsors, stakeholders, vendors, technical teams, business partners, and organizational leadership.
• Coordinates vendor and procurement activities as applicable, including requirements development, procurement planning, vendor deliverables, contract milestones, and vendor performance monitoring.
• Ensures project deliverables and outcomes align with organizational strategies, business needs, regulatory requirements, policies, and established standards.
• Works closely with technical teams to translate business objectives into actionable requirements, technical deliverables, implementation activities, and project milestones.
• Anticipates project challenges and proactively develops solutions, escalating matters when appropriate and providing recommendations to project sponsors and leadership.
• Ensures appropriate project documentation is maintained throughout the project lifecycle and that lessons learned, final deliverables, outstanding items, and operational handoffs are completed during project closeout.
• Provides guidance, mentoring, and knowledge sharing to Project Managers and project team members on project management practices, tools, processes, and governance requirements.
• Supports the development, improvement, and standardization of project management processes, templates, methodologies, and governance practices within the PMO.
• May lead multiple projects simultaneously and effectively prioritize competing demands for shared resources, organizational capacity, and stakeholder attention.
• Performs other related duties and responsibilities as assigned.

If you have questions, please contact DHS.Careers@okdhs.org

OKDHS is a Fair Chance Employer.

This is a position in the Oklahoma Civil Service.

Announcement Number: 26-JD258

P103007/JR66930