Senior Project Manager

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for the managing and implementing of NWN IT based business solutions with quality, within scope and to ensure deliverables are on time and conform to processes and standards meeting customer’s requirements.

This is a fully remote role.

Essential, key job responsibilities for this role include, but are not limited to:

• Manage a project portfolio including large-scale and/or complex projects while maintaining 80% billable utilization.
• Manage public safety technology projects, including Motorola VESTA implementations, coordinating application, infrastructure, and third-party dependencies. 
• Responsible for driving project and portfolio success: Maintaining high customer satisfaction while keeping projects on schedule and within budget.
• Direct and coordinate all activities of project personnel and shared corporate resources and partner/3^rd party resources to ensure projects progress on schedule and within budget.
• Forecast revenue regularly & accurately across all projects within portfolio and mitigate any risks to those commitments throughout the project life cycle.
• NWN’s Project Management delivery methodology including but not limited to:
  • Planning and Scheduling: Defining project scope, objectives, and deliverables. Creating detailed project plans, including timelines, milestones, and resource allocation.
  • Budget Management: Monitoring project budgets, controlling costs, and ensuring the project stays within financial constraints. Lastly, ensuring proper change control when scope or controls merits additional cost coverage
  • Team Leadership: Leading project teams, assigning tasks, managing resources, and fostering collaboration among team members.
  • Risk Management: Identifying potential project risks, developing mitigation strategies, and handling issues as they arise.
  • Communication: Acting as the main point of contact between stakeholders, ensuring clear and effective communication, and providing regular project updates.
  • Quality Control: Ensuring that project deliverables meet quality standards and requirements.
  • Stakeholder Management: Engaging with stakeholders to understand their needs, managing their expectations, and ensuring their satisfaction.
  • Monitoring and Reporting: Tracking project progress, using project management tools to monitor performance, and preparing status reports.
  • Documentation: Maintaining comprehensive project documentation, including plans, reports, and records which are accessible to the organization.
  • Change Management: Handling changes to the project scope, timeline, or budget and ensuring that changes are communicated and managed effectively.

Additional job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Understand and articulate all NWN service offerings and capabilities.
• Represent NWN with contractors, suppliers, customers, departments, and other parties as required.
• Leading project teams to deliver against scoped deliverables that may include other Project Managers and sub-projects.
• Ability to provide mentoring and/or coaching of Project Managers and Project Coordinators.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.