Job ID: MNSITE-2337 (90090314)2P
Remote Program/Project Manager with education experience
Location: St Paul MN (MDE)
Duration: 10 months
All work is anticipated to be offsite.
Minimum Qualifications
• Five (5) years’ experience in Program/Project Management role
o A Master’s degree substitutes for three years of experience, or a Bachelor’s degree
substitutes for two years, or an Associate’s degree substitutes for one year
• Two (2) engagements lasting more than six (6) months in Program/Project Manager role
Desired Skills
• Demonstrable leadership ability
• Ability to direct & manage program/project development from beginning to end
•Ability to define program/project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with project sponsors and stakeholders
•Ability to estimate program/project resource requirements and participants needed to achieve goals including changes during where necessary
• Ability to identify and manage program/project dependencies and critical path
•Ability to establish program/project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools and tracking such milestones and deliverables
•Ability to manage changes in program/project scope, identify potential crises or issues, and devise contingency plans as appropriate
•Ability to communicate program/project plans, expectations, updates, progress, issues, and successes in a timely & clear fashion when necessary
Description of Project
The MN Dept of Information Technology Services (MNIT) partnering with the MN Dept of Education (MDE) is seeking a Project Manager to work directly with the School Finance division of MDE to manage a variety of project requests. The division needs a project portfolio and roadmap created to help guide existing and new project requests that are identified by the teams. School Finance currently has seven distinct business areas. Each area has independent work, but often the requests overlap or meet a similar need. The division uses multiple computer systems encompassed in the MN School Finance Systems (MSFS) solution that was a result of the 2018-2020 Mainframe Modernization project. These systems and the business processes supported by them require additional modernization.
Sample Tasks
• Provide leadership for program/project
• Provide strategic vision and thinking with focus on outcomes
• Create clear and attainable project/program objectives
• Create clear and attainable project/program requirements
• Manage program/project constraints of cost, time and scope
• Form close links with team members and stakeholders
• Provide knowledge transfer