IT Project Manager

As an IT Project Manager, you will champion crucial IT initiatives within the Public Health Laboratory, focusing particularly on projects vital to COVID recovery. We're seeking a seasoned project manager equipped with a profound grasp of project management fundamentals, acquired through extensive real-world experience. Your challenge will be to navigate through complex, high-stakes projects that not only span across various departments but also intersect with other enterprises and divisions. Your role is pivotal in guiding these projects to fruition, leveraging your in-depth expertise to manage the intricacies of project planning, consultations, and the oversight of significant contracts and enterprise-wide systems. These systems are often at the cutting edge, incorporating new technologies and are central to the execution of comprehensive IT strategies affecting a broad array of business partners.

In this position, you’ll do more than just oversee projects. You’ll be instrumental in forging strong alliances with partners and agencies, communicating effectively, and making informed decisions to advance IT solutions. Your broad knowledge across areas such as Business Analysis, Quality Assurance Testing, Application Development, Data Management, and System Administration will be vital as you mentor and lead teams to deliver on development projects within time and budget constraints. Your contributions in this role will directly support the Department of Health’s mission, enhancing the management of complex and high-risk projects, optimizing resource deployment, and uplifting project quality through the adoption of IT project management best practices.

Required Qualifications & Experience:

Your experience should come from professional level work, and extra years of experience can replace educational requirements on a year-for-year basis. You must meet the following criteria for this position:

• At least five years of experience as a Project Manager overseeing high-risk projects.
• At least five years of experience in managing and overseeing IT project budgets of $1 million or more.
• Additionally, you must satisfy at least one of the following qualifications:
  1. Option 1: Minimum of 11 years of experience as an IT Project Manager 
  2. Option 2: Associate degree and at least nine (9) years of experience as an IT Project Manager
  3. Option 3: Bachelor’s degree and at least seven (7) years of experience as an IT Project Manager 

About Washington State Department of Health

Our programs and services help prevent illness and injury, promote healthy places to live and work, provide information to help people make good health decisions and ensure our state is prepared for emergencies. To accomplish all of these, we collaborate with many partners every day. We help ensure a safer and healthier Washington by: Working to improve health through disease and injury prevention, immunization, and newborn screening Providing health and safety information, education and training so people can make healthy choices Promoting a health and wellness system where we live, learn, work, play and worship Addressing environmental health hazards associated with drinking water, food, air quality and pesticide exposure Protecting you and your family by licensing healthcare professionals, investigating disease outbreaks and preparing for emergencies

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