Senior Project Manager

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AccelaGovernment software

Location: Remote Based - USFull-TimeSenior

Salary$140,000-$160,000

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Experience: 5 years leading successful implementations of COTS software/platform-based solutions for Tier-1 government clients; 5 years leading projects of $1M+ budget, 12+ months duration, and involving more than one government department or group.
Required Skills: Project ManagementJiraConfluenceBudget managementRisk Management

Have 5 years leading successful implementations of COTS software or platform-based solutions for Tier-1 government clients, or clear evidence of navigating slow, committee-driven stakeholder groups.
Have 5 years leading projects with budgets of $1M or more, durations of 12 months or more, and involvement from more than one government department or group.
Demonstrate the ability to manage multiple complex projects at different stages of delivery.
Be comfortable owning budgets and budget burn, and having scope conversations directly with customers.
Hold a BA or BS in a technical discipline or a similar technical degree program.
Have experience using formal project management tools such as MS Project and Visio.
Have working proficiency in Jira and Confluence, including building boards, dashboards, and saved filters.
Bring a strong technical background and enough enterprise software delivery literacy to read a configuration repository and workflow diagram.
Have strong analytical and organizational skills, including the ability to manage competing client demands and technical and project management issues.
Be able to interact and communicate with CxO-level personnel and demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Be able to travel up to 25% of the time.
PMP certification is preferred.
Knowledge of permitting and licensing is desired.

Manage Professional Services engagements from start to finish using standard project management principles.
Lead project planning and budgeting, mobilize cross-functional work streams, and manage Statements of Work and change orders.
Track project progress, budget burn, risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and project health; develop and execute risk mitigation strategies.
Run engagements in Jira using the standard implementation template and maintain customer project records, dashboards, and saved filters.
Contribute requirements for Jira, GitHub, and configuration-repository integration to support traceability from issue to deployment.
Own go-live readiness reviews, define handoff acceptance criteria for Customer Success and support, and run lessons-learned reviews.
Serve as the first project escalation point and manage customer-side dependencies, decisions, approvals, testing, and training schedules.
Coordinate across internal stakeholder groups and counterpart project managers on dependency mapping, milestones, and shared risks.
Support proposal development, budget estimation, and initiatives to grow new business and existing projects.

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