Project Manager

Minimum qualifications

1. • 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.
2. • 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.
3. • Experience leading enterprise system replacements that included data migration and organizational change management.
4. • Ability to pass a criminal background check.

Preferred qualifications

1. • Project Management Professional (PMP), PgMP, or equivalent certification.
2. • Agile and change management certifications.
3. • Experience with Waterfall Project methodology.
4. • Experience applying Waterfall governance and procurement controls in conjunction with Agile solution delivery.
5. • Experience implementing case management systems for courts, probation, parole, corrections, or other justice agencies.
6. • Familiarity with Colorado state government, the Colorado Judicial Branch, or CICJIS data exchanges.
7. • Experience with commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) or configurable SaaS platform implementations in the public sector.
8. • 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.• Communication: clear, plain-language writing and speaking for audiences ranging from judges and legislators to frontline officers and vendors.• 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.