Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end project lifecycle, from planning and requirements through implementation and decommissioning.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, budgets, scope baselines, and benefits realization plans.
• Manage vendors, procurement activities, deliverables, timelines, budgets, and quality.
• Coordinate enterprise system replacement, data migration, integration, testing, and deployment.
• Ensure compliance with applicable legislation, judicial directives, policies, and probation standards.
• Manage stakeholder engagement across all 23 judicial districts.
• Lead organizational change management, communications, training, and user adoption.
• Identify and mitigate project risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Prepare executive status reports and facilitate leadership decisions and escalations.
• Plan cutover and statewide rollout while ensuring uninterrupted probation operations.
• Coordinate data exchanges with criminal justice partner agencies through CICJIS.
• Support human-centered design, user testing, and feedback from frontline staff.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Information Systems, Business, Public Administration, Criminal Justice, or a related field. Equivalent relevant experience may substitute year for year.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible project management experience.
• 5+ years leading large, complex technology implementations involving multiple vendors and stakeholder groups.
• Experience managing multi-year project schedules.
• Proven experience with enterprise system replacement projects involving data migration and organizational change management.
• Ability to pass a criminal background check.
• Must be local to Denver, Colorado.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, PgMP, or equivalent project management certification.
• Agile and/or change management certifications.
• Strong Waterfall project management experience.
• Experience combining Waterfall governance and procurement controls with Agile delivery.
• Experience with COTS solutions or configurable SaaS platforms in the public sector.
• Experience managing geographically distributed teams and stakeholders across urban and rural locations.

Key Skills

• Strategic project and program management
• Waterfall, Agile, and hybrid methodologies
• Enterprise application modernization and replacement
• Data migration and system integration
• Vendor and procurement management
• Executive stakeholder engagement and governance
• Risk, issue, budget, and schedule management
• Organizational change management and training
• Business process improvement and user adoption
• Legislative and policy compliance
• Strong communication, facilitation, and decision-making skills