Project Manager (Denver)

Requisition ID : Strategic Project Manager

Requisition Name : Project Manager

Shift 1 : 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Position Location: Hybrid

Address : Denver, Colorado 80203

Candidate Must Be Local

Minimum qualifications

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.

· Ability to pass a criminal background check.

· 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 implementing case management systems for courts, probation, parole, corrections, or other justice agencies.

· Familiarity with Colorado state government, the Colorado Judicial Branch, or CICJIS data exchanges.

· 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.

· 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.

· Working conditions

Working conditions. This is a hybrid position based in Denver. Regular in-state travel to judicial districts, including rural districts, may be required, especially during training and rollout. Occasional work outside normal hours is expected around go-live and cutover events.