Senior Enterprise Project Manager -- OneWA Cutover, WMS2 Recruitment #2024-9-8564 Full-time, WMS2, Non-represented position Location: Natural Resources Building- Olympia, WA

Work Hours and Partial Telework flexibility may be available and considered Relocation Compensation may be available and considered Salary: $97,908.00 - $114,192.00 Annually  To allow for growth and salary progression the full salary range is: $97,908.00 - $120,204.00 Annually * *Want to join something GREAT and make a difference? Do you have a talent for organizing work and helping people stay on track? Are you passionate about achieving quality results and communicating those through data and visual management? The DNR's Enterprise Project and Performance Management Office (EPPMO) is seeking a skilled and energetic individual to lead, manage, and drive the successful completion of the agency's highest priority and visible projects and initiatives. The Senior Enterprise Project Manager serves as the lead for other project managers, specialists, and teams related to project management best practices and implementing business and technical projects on time, ensuring quality, and within scope and budget.

Responsibilities:

• OneWA Cutover activities -- core financials.
• Project risk management: risk identification and formation, mitigation strategy development and execution, risk reporting, and maintaining control logs.
• Leading continuity of operations planning.
• Establish positive and productive rapport with DNR employees at all levels
• Manage high-risk, visible, and priority enterprise projects -- those spanning programs, operational areas, and external stakeholders, and having a long-term impact on policy, budget, and service delivery.
• Direct and develop project plans - charter, schedule, budget, and status reporting. Monitor and control project plans -- execute project schedules, lead risk mitigation, resolve issues, report status, and adjust plans as required. Solve problems and take corrective action when problems arise, escalating to the project sponsor as appropriate and needed.
• Develop and manage project budget and expenditures in collaboration with the Budget staff. Effectively delegate responsibility and approach to project teams across authority lines to achieve objectives and goals. Manage contracts and contracted resources.
• Engage sponsor(s), steering committee(s), and agency stakeholders across authority lines to ensure plans support desired outcomes and are attainable.
• Communicate project status, issues, and successes (verbally and visually) to the project team, stakeholders, sponsors, and appropriate levels of staff and management, and are documented appropriately.
• Manage expectations and communicate plans actively. Coordinate adequate resource deployment to achieve objectives and outcomes within planned timeframes. Adjust plans as needed for capacity. Interact and communicate regularly with executive management.
• Produce and maintain complex reports and dashboards related to agency initiatives and performance for use by diverse groups of staff, management, the public, and other governmental entities.
• Lead and may supervise the work of others.

*Required Qualifications: *

Bachelor's degree in public administration, business administration, or closely related field from an accredited institution, AND two years experience in project, change, and/or performance management; OR an equivalent combination of experience and/or education.

Project management, performance management, and/or continuous improvement coursework and/or certification(s).

Advanced level project management experience: succ