Senior Project Manager - IT - Illinois Tollway

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## Position Overview
The Illinois Tollway is dedicated to providing and promoting a safe and
efficient system of highways while ensuring the highest possible level
of service to our customers. Whether it's I-PASS, the*Move
Illinois*Program, open road tolling or keeping you safe with our
H.E.L.P. trucks, we are committed to delivering great benefits and
services to customers.
TheTollway is a user-fee system no state or federal tax dollars are used
to support maintenance and operations. Operations are funded by toll and
concession revenues.
Under the leadership of theBoard of Directors and Executive Staff,the
Tollway is committed to achieving the following goals: increase
collaboration with regional transportationand planning agencies, promote
the regional economy, maintain financial integrity, foster environmental
responsibility andsustainability, maintain the safety and efficiency of
the Tollway system, further transparency and accountability, enhance
customer service, and maintain public trust.
In support of this mission, the Senior IT Project Manager will have
day-to-day responsibilities of the Project Management Office (PMO)
processes to analyze requirements, designs, and implementation project
documentation, plans, and schedules. In addition to overseeing
implementation projects, the IT Sr. Project Manager will assist with
managing internal resources as well as vendor implementation teams.
The Senior IT Project Manager is responsible for ensuring that the
solutions that are implemented satisfies the business requirements,
meets contracted requirements, and delivers the value required by the
client. The Senior IT Project Manager monitors the Scope of Work,
Project Plan, schedule and is responsible for ensuring that deliverables
and milestones are met and that the project is completed on time, within
budget, and to the customers satisfaction. The Senior IT Project Manager
plays a key role throughout the projects.
The Senior IT Project Manager will assist with managing other IT Project
Managers and the overall portfolio of IT projects.
## Essential Job Functions
The Senior IT Project Managers responsibility, as the leader of the
Project Management Office (PMO), includes oversight and reporting for
the following areas:
- Project Integration Management The processes required to ensure
that the various elements of the project are properly coordinated
consisting of project charter development, preliminary scope
statement development, project management plan development, project
management plan execution, and integrated change control
- Project Scope Management The processes required to ensure that
the project includes all the work required, and only the work
required, to complete the project successfully consisting of scope
planning, scope definition, creating the work breakdown structure
(WBS), scope verification, and scope control
- Project Time Management The processes required to ensure timely
completion of the project consisting of activity definition,
activity sequencing, activity resource estimating, activity duration
estimating, schedule development, and schedule control
- Project Cost Management The processes required to ensure that
the project is completed within the approved budget consisting of
cost estimating, cost budgeting, and cost control
- Project Quality Management The processes required to ensure that
the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken
consisting of quality planning, quality assurance, and quality
control
- Project Human Resource Management The processes required to make
the most effective use of the people involved with the project
consisting of hu an resource planning and acquiring/ developing/
managing the project team
- Project Communications Management The processes required to
ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination,
storage, and ultimate disposition of project information consisting
of communications planning, information distribution, performance
reporting, and managing stakeholders
- Project Risk Management The processes concerned with
identifying, analyzing, and responding to project risk consisting of
risk management planning, risk identification, quantitative risk
analysis, qualitative risk analysis, risk response planning, and
risk monitoring and control
- Organizational change management (OCM) The processes of adhering
to change management principles to help mitigate the challenges that
the organization will face when implementing the system
Executive Buy-in:Make sure there is buy-in from leadership. Without
buy-in from everyone in leadership the