Enterprise Project Manager - Advanced

Enterprise Project Manager / Business Analyst — Contract

Position Overview

Scope of the Engagement

• Deliver project outcomes on time, within scope, and within budget.

• Provide expert-level project management to guide planning, scheduling, execution, risk mitigation, and reporting.
• Provide business analysis expertise to define and document requirements, assess impacts, and ensure solutions meet business needs.
• Improve project transparency through accurate documentation, dashboards, and communication to leadership and stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Project Management

• Lead end-to-end project delivery, including scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, communication, and resource coordination.
• Develop and maintain project plans, RAID logs, communication plans, status reports, and executive updates.
• Manage cross-functional teams including internal IT, vendors, SMEs, and agency partners.
• Facilitate work sessions to validate scope, requirements, and deliverables; maintain alignment with sponsors and stakeholders.
• Identify risks and issues; recommend and implement mitigation strategies.
• Support procurement processes as needed (RFPs, SOWs, vendor oversight) consistent with state and Client procurement standards.
• Ensure compliance with agency policies, security requirements, records management standards, and project governance frameworks.

Business Analysis

• Lead structured requirements elicitation including interviews, workshops, journey mapping, process modeling, and data analysis.
• Document clear, testable requirements: business, functional, nonfunctional, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Define current-state and future-state processes, workflows, and data flows; quantify KPIs and business value.
• Translate requirements into solution designs in collaboration with architecture, security, data, and infrastructure teams.
• Evaluate build-vs-buy options and support creation of diagrams, models, and integration patterns when required.

Change Management & Adoption

• Develop change management and communication plans.

• Coordinate UAT, cutover activities, readiness planning, and post-launch support.

• Support adoption using metrics, user feedback, and continuous improvement loops.

• Project Charter

• Requirements Documents / User Stories

• Process Diagrams & Data Flows

• Project Schedule & Work Breakdown Structure

• RAID Logs & Decision Logs

• Status Reports & Dashboards

• Communication Plans

• Procurement-related documentation (as applicable)

Required Skills & Experience

• Minimum 7 years project management experience with moderate to high complexity.

• Demonstrated experience in business analysis and process redesign.

• Minimum 5 years experience managing IT, regulatory, compliance, or enterprise-level initiatives.

Preferred Skills (in order of importance)

• Ability to simultaneously manage multiple work efforts.

• Strong schedule management and resource planning skills.

• Ability to identify, map, and re-engineer business processes.

• Integrated Master Schedule skills.

• PowerBI and/or data dashboard skills.

Additional Skills & Duties

• Ability to work independently with limited supervision and communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.

• Ability to work with diverse technical and business teams and maintain confidentiality.

• Ability to work at a high volume and fast pace.

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor's degree required.

• PMP, PMI-ACP, or comparable certification preferred.