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Illinois Tollway Senior Project Manager - IT in Downers Grove, Illinois

This job was posted by https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov : For more information, please see: https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/12263423

Position Overview

The Illinois Tollway is dedicated to providing and promoting a safe and efficient system of highways while ensuring the highest possible level of service to our customers. Whether it\'s I-PASS, theMove IllinoisProgram, open road tolling or keeping you safe with our H.E.L.P. trucks, we are committed to delivering great benefits and services to customers.

TheTollway is a user-fee system no state or federal tax dollars are used to support maintenance and operations. Operations are funded by toll and concession revenues.

Under the leadership of theBoard of Directors and Executive Staff,the Tollway is committed to achieving the following goals: increase collaboration with regional transportationand planning agencies, promote the regional economy, maintain financial integrity, foster environmental responsibility andsustainability, maintain the safety and efficiency of the Tollway system, further transparency and accountability, enhance customer service, and maintain public trust.

In support of this mission, the Senior IT Project Manager will have day-to-day responsibilities of the Project Management Office (PMO) processes to analyze requirements, designs, and implementation project documentation, plans, and schedules. In addition to overseeing implementation projects, the IT Sr. Project Manager will assist with managing internal resources as well as vendor implementation teams.

The Senior IT Project Manager is responsible for ensuring that the solutions that are implemented satisfies the business requirements, meets contracted requirements, and delivers the value required by the client. The Senior IT Project Manager monitors the Scope of Work, Project Plan, schedule and is responsible for ensuring that deliverables and milestones are met and that the project is completed on time, within budget, and to the customers satisfaction. The Senior IT Project Manager plays a key role throughout the projects.

The Senior IT Project Manager will assist with managing other IT Project Managers and the overall portfolio of IT projects.

Essential Job Functions

The Senior IT Project Managers responsibility, as the leader of the Project Management Office (PMO), includes oversight and reporting for the following areas:

  • Project Integration Management The processes required to ensure that the various elements of the project are properly coordinated consisting of project charter development, preliminary scope statement development, project management plan development, project management plan execution, and integrated change control
  • Project Scope Management The processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully consisting of scope planning, scope definition, creating the work breakdown structure (WBS), scope verification, and scope control
  • Project Time Management The processes required to ensure timely completion of the project consisting of activity definition, activity sequencing, activity resource estimating, activity duration estimating, schedule development, and schedule control
  • Project Cost Management The processes required to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget consisting of cost estimating, cost budgeting, and cost control
  • Project Quality Management The processes required to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken consisting of quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control
  • Project Human Resource Management The processes required to make the most effective use of the people involved with the project consisting of hu an resource planning and acquiring/ developing/ managing the project team
  • Project Communications Management The processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information consisting of communications planning, information distribution, performance reporting, and managing stakeholders
  • Project Risk Management The processes concerned with identifying, analyzing, and responding to project risk consisting of risk management planning, risk identification, quantitative risk analysis, qualitative risk analysis, risk response planning, and risk monitoring and control
  • Organizational change management (OCM) The processes of adhering to change management principles to help mitigate the challenges that the organization will face when implementing the system

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