Project Manager

The Project Manager serves as the principal point of contact for assigned projects, providing leadership to cross-functional project teams, coordinating resources across multiple projects, managing risks, and ensuring quality deliverables. This role requires an executive presence and the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, including City leadership.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead projects from conception to close-out, managing scope, schedule, budget, risk, and resources.
• Develop detailed project plans, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables using project management software.
• Coordinate project teams, assign responsibilities, and monitor performance across departments, contractors, and vendors.
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement, including meetings, project status updates, and communication plans.
• Conduct business case analyses, prepare project charters, cost estimates, expected benefits, and ROI assessments.
• Apply change management practices to address scope changes, budget variances, and other project contingencies.
• Manage post-implementation activities, including lessons learned, application transitions, decommissioning, and data archiving strategies.
• Organize employee training for new products and technologies and ensure training documentation is available.
• Ensure compliance with the City’s ITS/EPPM standards, governance processes, and reporting requirements, including proactive risk management practices that address both cybersecurity and project-related risks throughout the project lifecycle.
• Monitor project activities, escalate unresolved issues, and recommend solutions to stakeholders.
• Oversee vendor and contractor integration, reviewing deliverables and providing technical guidance.
• Support application portfolio management by providing leadership and expertise on project alignment with strategic initiatives.
  
  

Minimum: 

• Two-year College Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Three years of comprehensive full life-cycle IT project management experience, including three years leading technical project teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage large, complex, or high-risk IT projects.
• Experience developing project plans, schedules, budgets, managing risks, and delivering quality results.
• Or any equivalent combination of experience and training which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.
  

Preferred: 

• Bachelor’s degree or higher.
• Five or more years directing complex IT projects of substantial scope and cost.
• PMP and ITIL certification.
• Experience with COTS software implementations, vendor management, and contract negotiations.
• Proven ability to build relationships and communicate effectively with stakeholders at all organizational levels.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and crisis management skills.

The City of Alexandria is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values diversity in its workforce. All qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, matriculation, political affiliation, genetic information, military status, or disability.