Urgent Position||Project Manager||Saint Paul,MN

Project Description:

• Provide leadership for program/project
• Create a strong and successful working vendor partnership
• Create strong and successful partnership with application teams
• 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

Minimum Qualifications

• Combined total of ten (10) years’ Project Manager experience and/or Scrum Master experience
• 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
• One (1) engagement in a Project Manager role working on the transition of legacy technology and data to the Salesforce Cloud platform

Desired Skills

• Demonstrable knowledge of the child care industry
• Demonstrable knowledge of public services and supports for the child care industry, including child care licensing
• Demonstrable skills on how to support the integration of business and technical needs of the Child Care Services Division and the Office of Inspector General for each project
• Demonstrable knowledge of legislative process
• Demonstrable knowledge of state procurement requirements
• Demonstrable knowledge of Salesforce.
• Demonstrable leadership ability
• Proven delivery managing increasingly complex projects
• Experience working in a government setting
• 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