Senior Project Manager

Title: Sr. Project Manager

Employee Type:
Contract

Remote:
Yes

Location:
Frankfort, KY, US

Pay Range:
$40 - $50 per hour

Job#: 3046660

Job Description:

Project Management Responsibilities

• • Responsible for planning, coordinating, organizing, and managing all phases of the project.
  • Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, resource assignments, and budgets.
  • Manage project scope, schedule, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and change requests.
  • Coordinate project activities among business stakeholders, vendors, technical teams, infrastructure, security, and executive leadership.
  • Facilitate project meetings, steering committee meetings, status meetings, and executive briefings.
  • Monitor vendor performance and ensure contractual deliverables are completed on time and meet quality expectations.
  • Track project budget, invoices, procurement activities, and contract deliverables.
  • Prepare weekly and monthly project status reports and communicate project health to management.
  • Ensure compliance with Commonwealth of Kentucky, CHFS, DHSS, and OATS project management standards and SDLC processes.
  • Coordinate release planning, testing activities, production deployments, and post-implementation support.
  • Proactively identify and mitigate project risks and resolve issues before they impact the project schedule.

Business Analysis Responsibilities

• Work closely with business stakeholders to understand business processes, operational needs, and project objectives.
• Facilitate business requirements gathering sessions, workshops, and stakeholder interviews.
• Document Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Functional Requirements, Use Cases, User Stories, Process Flows, and Business Process Models.
• Analyze existing business processes and recommend opportunities for process improvement and automation.
• Translate business requirements into detailed functional requirements for technical teams and vendors.
• Review vendor deliverables to ensure they satisfy approved business requirements and contractual obligations.
• Manage requirements traceability throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including test planning, test case development, defect tracking, and business signoff.
• Assist with data migration planning, data validation, and business readiness activities.
• Develop user documentation, training materials, and facilitate end-user training sessions.
• Coordinate change management and organizational readiness activities to support successful implementation.
• Serve as the liaison between business stakeholders, vendors, and technical teams to ensure successful solution delivery.

Required Qualifications

Candidates must have:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• PMP Certification preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience managing large-scale Information Technology projects.
• Minimum of 7 years of Business Analysis experience supporting enterprise software development projects.
• Experience managing Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid software development projects.
• Experience facilitating business requirements sessions with executive leadership and business users.
• Experience writing Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Functional Requirements, Use Cases, User Stories, and Process Flow diagrams.
• Experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, risks, issues, and change management.
• Experience coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities.
• Experience managing software vendors and contractual deliverables.
• Experience reviewing technical and functional documentation.
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Experience using Microsoft Project, Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, ServiceNow, or similar project management and work management tools.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively with business and technical teams.
• Experience working with executive leadership and cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Candidates having experience in one or more of the following areas are preferred:
• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform (Power Pages, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Dataverse).
• Experience supporting Microsoft Azure cloud projects.
• Experience managing Digital Transformation initiatives.
• Experience implementing Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) processes.
• Experience with business process reengineering and workflow automation.
• Experience with grants management, financial management, or regulatory systems.
• Prior experience supporting Commonwealth of Kentucky or other State Government agencies.
• Prior experience supporting public health or healthcare information systems.
• Experience managing projects involving vendor-developed cloud solutions.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

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