[Remote] Project Manager
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ETalentNetwork is seeking a Project Manager for the Minnesota Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) to provide project management services for modernization efforts. The role involves tracking milestones, managing risks, and ensuring financial alignment across multiple workstreams.
Responsibilities
- Track key portfolio milestones, timelines and dependencies across multiple workstreams
- Ensure program roadmaps align with broader portfolio timelines
- Identify and track risks, maintain a risk log, and ensure mitigation plans are in place
- Identify patterns, risks, and opportunities across multiple workstreams
- Escalate issues and manage expectations
- Identify, manage and communicate upstream/downstream portfolio impacts
- Evaluate vendor performance and monitor contract compliance
- Track spend across the portfolio, forecast future needs and ensure financial alignment
- Model impacts of delays, budget changes, or strategic shifts
- Provide clear regular updates, escalate issues and manage expectations
- Create comprehensive executive level dashboards showing portfolio health, risks, dependencies, and financials across all initiatives
- Support organizational change tied to program initiatives
- Provide knowledge transfer
Skills
- PMI-PMP (Project Management Professional) certification
- Ten (10) years' combined experience in portfolio and project management
- Two (2) engagements lasting longer than one (1) year
- Experience working on programs greater than $30,000,000
- PMI- PfMP (Portfolio Management Professional) certification
- Agile Certification from the SCRUM Alliance, Project Management Institute or equivalent organizations
- Strong communication including at an executive level
- Excellent collaboration skills
- Conflict resolution skills
- Experience working on technology modernization initiatives
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