IT Project Manager - LOCAL to Denver, CO - W2 Only.

*NOTE: LOCALS to Denver, CO - W2 ONLY.

*NOTE: LOCALS to Denver, CO - W2 ONLY.

*NOTE: LOCALS to Denver, CO - W2 ONLY.

Job Title: Sr. Project Manager

Location: Denver, CO - HYBRID (You will be asked to come into the office once a week)

Duration: 6-12+ months contract

Minimum qualifications

•         Bachelor's degree in project management, information systems, public administration, criminal justice, business, or a related field. Additional relevant experience may substitute for the degree year for year.

•         Ten years of progressively responsible project management experience, including at least five years leading large, complex technology implementations with multiple vendors and stakeholder groups.

•         Demonstrated experience managing a multi-year schedule.

•         Experience leading enterprise system replacements that included data migration and organizational change management.

Preferred qualifications

•         Project Management Professional (PMP), PgMP, or equivalent certification.

•         Agile and change management certifications.

•         Experience with Waterfall Project methodology.

•         Experience applying Waterfall governance and procurement controls in conjunction with Agile solution delivery.

•      Experience with commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) or configurable SaaS platform implementations in the public sector.

•         Experience working with geographically distributed users in both urban and rural settings.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities

•         Project and program management: command of predictive, Agile, and hybrid methods, and the judgment to choose between them.

•         Systems thinking: ability to understand how technology, policy, operations, and people interact, and to see downstream effects of design choices.

•        Facilitation and influence: ability to build consensus among stakeholders with competing priorities, without direct authority.

•         Empathy for users: genuine interest in how probation officers and clients experience the system, and the discipline to design around their needs.

•         Analytical skills: ability to interpret data, evaluate trade-offs, and make sound decisions under uncertainty.

•         Integrity and discretion: sound handling of confidential criminal justice information and sensitive organizational matters.

•         Resilience: steady leadership through ambiguity, setbacks, and the pressures of a high-visibility public project.

•         Benefits orientation: understanding of business outcomes and the ability to support measurement of adoption and value realization objectives.

•         Governance and executive engagement: ability to operate within complex governance structures, prepare executive decision materials, facilitate escalations, and support leadership decision-making across multiple organizational levels.

•         Change management: ability to support organizational readiness, stakeholder engagement, communications, training, and user adoption activities.