Sr. Project Manager

Must reside in the PNW area. With a strong focus on customer satisfaction and quality, we are expanding our team to better serve our growing client base in the Denver metro area and surrounding western states.

ABOUT THE ROLE

You will play an important role in the continued growth and success of Accela by ensuring the successful, on-time delivery of large and complex Professional Services implementations. You will be an integral part of a cross-functional team, identifying what needs to be accomplished and partnering with others in the organization to execute a plan. You will leverage proven processes and templates to deliver projects while remaining highly adaptable to any changing demands from the customer or corporate landscape.

If you are motivated by the idea of delivering on the promise of democracy in the digital age and solving for a new era of more efficient, open, and innovative governance, then we’d love to hear from you.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Project Management: Manage engagements start-to-finish by applying standard and accepted project management principles; lead project planning and budgeting; mobilize and direct the work streams of cross-functional project teams; champion the Statement of Work.
• Drive on-time and on-budget completion of projects; track project progress and variability; work collaboratively with the customer and internal teams to identify risks; develop and execute appropriate risk mitigation strategies within a defined escalation path.
• Implement and employ appropriate tracking and reporting metrics in a manner that provides transparency and visibility into project health.
• Foster an environment of highly effective and collaborative communications in day-to-day interactions with clients and stakeholders; serve as the first point of escalation on the project; support the Regional Director in executive steering committees.
• Lead and support collaboration across many internal stakeholder groups — Consultants, Architects, Project Management Office, Cloud Operations, Product, Support, Partners, and others.
• Support initiatives to grow new business and expand existing projects; participate in aspects of the proposal development process and budget estimation.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree
• 5 years leading successful implementations of COTS software/platform-based solutions for Tier-1 government clients. 
• 5 years leading projects of $1M+ budget, 12+ months duration, and involving more than one government department or group. 
• Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects that are at various stages of delivery.
• Aptitude for understanding and applying new technologies and methodologies.
• Use of formal project management tools (e.g., MS-Project, Visio, etc.).
• Strong analytical skills and experience managing technical and project management issues.
• Strong organizational skills with an ability to manage competing client demands.
• Ability to interact and communicate with CxO-level personnel as well as technical individual contributors.
• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills.
• Skilled at identifying the appropriate strategies and tools for planning and tracking complex projects and driving teams to high productivity.
• Project Management Certification: Certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: 

• State or local government permitting and licensing knowledge, a plus.

The base pay range for this position is $125,000-$135,000/year. The base pay offered may vary depending on factors such as the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 

ABOUT ACCELA
For nearly 20 years, Accela has been an industry leader in designing and delivering government software to improve efficiency, increase citizen engagement and enable the development of thriving communities. Today, citizens are savvy to how services should be delivered, and expect a consistently convenient, openly transparent view into their local government. While government agencies struggle to do more with less, our mission has never been more critical. Accela provides a robust, cloud-based platform of government software solutions that accelerate growth, efficiency, and transparency in communities of all sizes. From planning, to building, to service request management and more, Accela’s SaaS offerings level the playing field for small and medium governments and enable smaller agencies to leverage larger city technologie