Project Title:
California Courts Data Analytics Pilot Expansion project
Summary of Work
The Judicial Council seeks the services of one (1) IT Program Manager consultant on a full-time basis to manage project plans, coordinate, and liaison with business partners, 3rd party vendors, and trial courts for the California Courts Data Analytics Pilot Expansion project.
This IT Program Manager, under the direction of the Chief Information Officer, and in coordination with the IT Data Services team, will provide the expertise needed to develop solutions to program challenges for the Data Analytics/Data Integration onboarding program.
Minimum Job-Specific Skills/Qualifications Required (in order of relative importance):
- Equivalent to possession of a bachelor's degree, preferably with major course work in project management, judicial administration, business administration and/or criminal law.
- Proven track record leading, organizing, and coordinating multiple work activities.
- Proven track record in delivering on-time, on-budget projects with a high degree of user satisfaction and quality.
- Experienced with the principles and techniques of project management including the ability to develop and track complex project plans, manage risks, manage scope and manage resources.
- Experienced with agile project management methodologies.
- Experienced with the principles of full life cycle systems design and development.
- Experienced with the principles and techniques of program design, development, testing, and documentation.
- Experienced with the principles and techniques of systems implementation including conversion, data reconciliation, user training, and documentation.
- Experienced in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.
- Knowledge of digital government and digital government strategies
- Ability to communicate effectively in English, orally and in writing.
- Ability to build coalitions among the various stakeholders using excellent conflict resolution skills, where needed.
- Ability to manage complex relationships among stakeholders on a project which has significant executive oversight.
- Excellent analytical capabilities and the ability to breakdown complex ideas into manageable pieces.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with both technical and non-technical audiences, including creating and presenting executive summaries to steering committees and other executive level leadership.
- Proficiency with MS Office applications including Word, Excel, Project, SharePoint and Visio.
Additional Skills/Qualifications Desired:
- Proven track record leading judicial branch or trial court initiatives.
- Recent experience within government agencies or public bodies with projects of a similar type.
- Experience in user research and data analysis.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Provide program management for The Data Analytics/Data Integration program.
- Develop and communicate the project vision and implementation of project roadmap.
- Lead a cross functional team to design, develop, and deliver related services.
- Coordinate with project managers to review delivery tools including, but not limited to, meeting agendas, meeting minutes, project schedules, issues lists and change requests logs.
- Review the project charter, project plans, and detailed task plans, to ensure alignment of and sign off from stakeholders.
- Manage project risks.
- Provide leadership, direction, training and work review; organize and assign work, set priorities, and follow up to ensure coordination and completion of assigned work to project team members.
- Facilitate issue resolution and escalate issues that cannot be resolved in the team.
- Communicate with contracted vendors, trial court personnel, justice partners, and management regarding deployment strategies, identified issues, and possible resolutions.
- Work with clients, team members, and management to understand business requirements and ensure that client expectations are understood and met.
- Assign tasks and make decisions about features and technical implementation details.
- Manage scope, resources, schedule and expectations to establish and maintain detailed project schedules.
- Provide guidance and input to clients through each project stage.
- Lead the development of prototypes that further pretrial reform, specifically focused on data collection and interactions with courts and justice partners.
- Identify and evaluate alternative technical solutions such as evaluating data reporting systems, as needed; analyze the pros and cons of each solution including preparing high-level budgets for each solution and present those findings to stakeholders.
- Apply forward-thinking design and development principles to product and/or services development, delivery and program management, such as lean startup, user-centered design, and agile development.
- Assess the state of data analytic and other tools and services provided by the California Courts, and work to align strategies and practice; conferring with Judicial Council offices, local courts and top experts in the field.
- Manage complex relationships, such as multiple internal partners, significant executive oversight, and multiple distinct user groups.
- Analyze and scope the technical and policy requirements needed to implement data analytics solutions for court and justice partner users.
- Communicate project activities, performance and status.
- Ensure the project is delivered in budget, on schedule, and in scope.
- Develop project cost and benefit estimates; estimate project needs for staff and consultants.
- Present and deliver final report, including research findings, recommendations for a digital services strategy, and a working prototype that can be used to develop a full-scale production redesign.
- Provide expertise, input, and recommendations for business processes, research, and design services, as needed.
- Monthly status reports
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