Job Description

Department develops and executes the statewide IT strategy for Arizona state government and provides IT infrastructure and services to state agencies to ensure continuity of mission critical and essential systems. ASET is managed by Arizona's State CIO and serves as an information technology leader for AZ government. ASETs Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) provides project management services that align to Arizona's Strategic IT Plan.

ASETs EPMO is looking for someone who is passionate, highly skilled, committed to successful project execution and superior customer service to join our team. Contribute to process improvement initiatives as it relates to improving project delivery. Verify that the project produces the required deliverables of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost and to achieve the potential benefits defined in the business case

Job Duties:

• Manage multiple projects. Example: 911Inform project. 911Inform will fill the gap that new legislation created in the softphone world that went into effect January 1, 2022. 911Inform is the only notification and emergency management solution that provides police dispatch, first-responders, and key building personnel information to a connected building platform and this software needs to be implemented across all State of Arizona agency buildings.
• Serves as project champion embracing and articulating project goals, objectives and outcomes for projects such as cloud technologies, infrastructure modernization, cybersecurity, digitization, enterprise wide applications and managed partnerships
• Manage the project team to drive results and successes; Demonstrate strong problem solving abilities
• Manages the entire project life cycle from discovery through lessons learned
• Facilitates team/stakeholder interactions, meetings and communications
• Works with project resources, including procurement and vendor, to assure project health
• Ensure the team is working together and step in when needed
• Understands, monitors and reports on project tasks, milestones and deliverables.
• Document and report on project management activities
• Guides project teams to define requirements or stories/sprints/backlogs
• Experience drafting and submitting budget proposals and recommending subsequent budget changes where necessary
• Balances priorities among multiple projects/subprojects
• Plan, budget, monitor and report on the project with project management tools. Present to stakeholders reports on progress as well as problems and solutions.
• Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities
• Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence
• Define the Statement of Work and Specifications for the requested goods and services

Skills Required

• Proactive Orientation
• Strong ability to identify and resolve risks/issues/changes, Self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands
• Takes Ownership
• Commitment to actions that lead to success for self/team/organization
• Drives to Results Track record of project results (with increasing levels of difficulty)
• Customer Focus
• Strong customer service orientation
• Excellent Communicator
• Strong verbal, written, presentation, and facilitation skills - Personable
• Strong team/stakeholder interactions and working relationships; Effective with IT professionals
• Delivery - Strong planning, organization and presentation skills
• Knowledge Areas - PM methodologies (i.e., Waterfall, Lean, Kanban, Agile, hybrid)

Skills Preferred

• Experience Required 3+ years in a project management or similar role utilizing PM processes/protocols 1+ years of previous experience with gathering requirements from the client / business and documentation
• Experience Preferred PMP Certification
• Education Required The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree
• Education Preferred
• Additional Information 7 year background check This position is mostly remote but it is encouraged/optional to come into the office once a week on Tuesdays. Candidate must be local to Phoenix.