Description

What this job is about:
The One Washington program is tasked with modernizing and integrating the state’s core enterprise finance, procurement, budget and human capital management functions. It is the largest information technology project in the state’s history and must deliver a business transformation that takes the state away from outdated technology and paper-based processes into a world where data is live and on-demand.

As the Lead IT Project Scheduler, you will work closely with the One Washington project teams and central project management office (PMO) to develop, maintain, and support the project schedule. To accomplish this, it may include internal program workstream schedules or remediations schedules for 200+ impacted agency-owned systems. Additionally, you will assist by monitoring, tracking, analyzing, recommending, and escalating issues on the schedule plan to include dependencies and critical paths.

Compensation:
The starting salary range for this position is $85,008 - $114,000, depending on qualifications. To allow for growth and salary progression over time in this role, the full salary range is $85,008 - $118,716.

Who we are:

Our work at the Office of Financial Management (OFM) serves as a crucial part of the decision-making that the governor, Legislature and state agencies do each year. As an employee of OFM, you will be part of a team of dedicated professionals who work hard every day to provide the vital information and services they need to serve the people of Washington.

If playing a key role in supporting and improving state government matters to you, you’ve found the right place.

What we offer our employees:

We support the following values in the workplace:

• Foster an environment of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. We strive to hire, cultivate and retain a competitive workforce that reflects the communities we serve.
• Offer telework and remote work opportunities, when possible, by offering work tools that promote creative collaboration, drive efficiency, and best suit the important work we do whether you live five minutes from our work building or work elsewhere in the state.
• Encourage a healthy life/work balance by offering flexible/alternative work schedules, wellness activities, mobile arrangements and telework opportunities.
• Offer an Infants at Work Program to promote parent and infant bonding, parental well-being and healthy infant development. Depending on your job duties, work location and supervisor approval, eligible employees who are new mothers, fathers or legal guardians can bring their infant (six weeks to six months) when they return to work.

Duties

What will you be doing?

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  Develop comprehensive schedules in collaboration with the program team, project managers, project leads, and key resources from impacted agencies.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure schedule comprehensiveness and accuracy.
• Develop effective and clear project plans to support the program’s schedule management strategy and enable consistent tracking and reporting the workstream activities.
• Prepare slide deck presentations for staffing meetings and stakeholder engagements, and update project schedule as needed.
• Regularly track, analyze, evaluate, and report information, including a weekly report.
• Coordinate project schedules, tasks, meeting updates and efficient distribution of schedule reports.
• Prepare, implement, and monitor scope of work for control and integrity.
• Analyze trends and track schedule findings, identify areas for improvement, and elevate risks or issues as needed.
• Log and monitor risk and issues, ensuring effective management and minimizing of impacts on schedule.
• Perform cross-functional workstream coordination, identify project issues, and monitor action items.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

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  High school diploma or GED.
• Five years of direct experience with coordination, scheduling, and identification of all long-term, mid-term and near-term project or program milestones.
• Strong background and experience with schedule analysis to include defining and analyzing the critical path.
• Experience assisting with development of integrated master schedules. Expert level proficiency in MS Project or other project management specific software for file development, maintenance, updates, and reporting. Experience with MS SharePoint, MS Excel and Jira. Experience using Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) tools and processes.
• Experience facilitating and coordinating with all working groups including the program management staff in various technical programs to ensure that schedules and expectations are completed in a timely manner. Ability to coordinate between multiple projects and consolidating multiple project schedules, defined goals, objectives, deliverables, and associated timelines.
• Experience with drafting status reports and defining and gathering requirements.
• Experience working in a matrixed environment of contractor, vendor, state government resources.

Desired Qualifications

• Five years of experience with project scheduling.
• Four years of experience facilitating teams through complex and challenging topics working towards positive resolution.
• Two years of experience with re-platforming and system modernization efforts.
• Project Management Certification.
• Experience with enterprise resource planning system implementation.
• Associate degree or bachelor’s degree, and five years of direct experience with coordination, scheduling, and identification of all long-term, mid-term and near-term project or program milestones.

Supplemental Information

Application Process
How to Apply

Interested? We would love to hear from you. Click “Apply” at the top of this page to start your application (you can save the application and come back to it, if needed). Please include the following:

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  A letter of interest that describes your specific qualifications.
• A current resume that details your applicable experience and education.
• A list of at least three professional references with current telephone numbers.

We will directly contact the top candidates to interview for this position. Because we base our selection on the information you provide, it is in your best interest to identify the knowledge, skills and abilities that address the required and desirable qualifications we described above.

Questions?

For questions about this recruitment or to request reasonable accommodation in the application process, please email William Penzo at TalentAcquisition@ofm.wa.gov. For TTY service, please call the Washington Relay Service at 7-1-1 or 1-800-833-6388.

The Office of Financial Management is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a working environment that includes and respects cultural, racial, ethnic, sexual orientation and gender identity diversity. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, persons of disability, persons over 40 years of age, and disabled and Vietnam-era veterans are encouraged to apply. If you need accommodations or help in the application process, or who wish to receive this job announcement in an alternative format, you may call 360-725-0158 or dial 711 to reach the Telecommunications Device for the Deaf system.