Public Sector Strategy Senior Project Manager

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Job Description:

The California State Controller’s Office (SCO) is currently implementing a large and complex SaaS solution to support the California State Payroll System (CSPS) project. CSPS is a massive project, and the implementation includes both Personnel and Payroll functionality to support the needs of some 300,000 employees across 160 agencies and 21 bargaining units. With an estimated project budget exceeding $1 billion and staffing approaching 200 IT professionals, this highly complex effort is expected to continue for the next several years.   

Description

The Project Management Office (PMO) is responsible for execution, maintenance and enhancement of the CSPS Project Management Plans.

PMO responsibilities include:

• ensuring that formal PM processes are in place and followed across all project workstreams (leadership, functional, technical, and organizational change management)
• ensuring documentation is maintained in accordance with policy and procedure
• regular periodic reporting on project risks, issues, and overall health, including stakeholder presentations as needed
• assisting the CSPS Leadership Team in monitoring system integrator performance
• providing analysis and recommendations for improvements to project management processes

The CSPS PMO is currently staffed by four senior project managers who each work directly with a state and system integrator counterpart.

Contract Required Qualifications for the Senior Project Manager Role

Requires a minimum of seven (7) years of broad, extensive and increasingly responsible experience applying PM principles, methods, techniques, and tools. At least four (4) years of that experience must have been as a senior PM of one or more large or complex IT projects.

Possession of (a) a bachelor’s degree, and (b) a valid Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI)

• Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis. The PMP certification is required and may not be substituted with additional experience.

Additional Qualifications

The Senior PM role requires proven project management skills in a highly complex and large-scale IT implementation. The successful candidate will need to work well in a dynamic environment, providing exceptional client service with outstanding professionalism. The role requires direct interaction with client and system integrator staff, as well as:     

• Strong analytical, organizational and core project management skills
• Ability to help client personnel to leverage technology to solve business problems
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with a commitment to client service and professionalism
• Possess conceptual thinking skills, creativity and flexibility
• Work well both independently and in a team
• Must be self-sufficient and have the ability to self-manage
• Experienced and comfortable in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt with other technology applications in day-to-day work

Other

• Candidates will need to complete and pass a background check conducted by SCO prior to beginning work
• Remote work is allowed, but staff must be based in the continental United States. With advance notice, project staff will occasionally need to travel to Sacramento for project meetings.
• Normal working hours are 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Pacific time. All staff, regardless of location, are required to perform duties within those hours.

We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

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