Project Manager

Capio Group is looking for an experienced Project Manager!

Full-time employee - Remote
Salary: $130,000 - $140,000

About Us:

Capio Group is a California-based Information Technology Consulting firm serving the public sector since 2010. We assist the Government in delivering large, complex systems and solutions. Capio Group is a small, but quickly growing firm that mixes good ideas, with great people, to achieve extraordinary results for our clients. We offer the salary and benefits of the bigger companies, with the added bonus of a flexible workplace and a great work-life balance.

Scope of Work:

Capio Group is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the implementation of a modern, Salesforce-based commercial cannabis licensing and regulatory management solution for the client. The Project Manager will be responsible for overall delivery governance, implementation planning, stakeholder coordination, vendor management, Agile execution, schedule management, and successful deployment. This position requires demonstrated experience managing large-scale government technology implementations, including oversight of functional implementation activities.

The Project Manager will be responsible for tasks including but not limited to:

• Implementation Management: Lead the end-to-end implementation lifecycle, including discovery, requirements validation, solution design, configuration, development, testing, data migration, training, deployment, and post-implementation stabilization.
• Agile Project Governance: Establish and manage phased Agile implementation activities, sprint planning, sprint reviews, deliverable acceptance, and project performance monitoring.
• Schedule and Milestone Management: Develop and maintain an integrated baseline project schedule, Gantt charts, critical-path activities, milestones, dependencies, and deployment readiness plans.
• Functional Implementation Oversight: Coordinate functional leads, business analysts, technical teams, and stakeholders to ensure licensing, permitting, inspections, enforcement, and financial requirements are translated into deliverable functionality.
• Vendor and Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary point of contact with management and coordinate cross-functional departments, implementation partners, vendors, and technical resources.
• Risk and Change Management: Manage project risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, scope changes, change requests, escalation procedures, and mitigation activities.
• Product Backlog Management: Oversee backlog prioritization, ordinance-driven modifications, enhancements, defect resolution, and release planning.
• Deployment and Transition: Lead production readiness, cutover planning, transition activities, operational handoff, and implementation reporting.
• Executive Communication: Prepare project status reports, schedules, dashboards, risk registers, and executive-level briefings.

Mandatory Experience:

1. Within the past five (5) years, must have demonstrated experience leading at least one enterprise system implementation for a large government entity utilizing a Salesforce solution or Salesforce development ecosystem.
2. Must have minimum experience supporting a government organization with an annual operating budget of at least $1 billion or serving a population of at least 900,000 residents.
3. Must have minimum three (3) years of experience supporting similar Salesforce solutions in a jurisdiction that utilized permitting, inspections, and code enforcement capabilities.
4. Must have minimum three (3) years of demonstrated responsibility for oversight of functional implementation activities, including requirements, business workflows, system configuration, functional testing, and acceptance.
5. Must have minimum experience with public-sector jurisdictions currently using a product designed specifically for commercial cannabis licensing, including translating unique cannabis ordinances and social equity rules into standard system configurations and implementation best practices.
6. Must have minimum experience implementing configuration-first or metadata driven, low-code cannabis licensing software platforms for public-sector agencies, including typical scale, duration, and complexity of such implementations.
7. Must have minimum experience leading data migration projects from legacy or heavily customized systems.
8. Must have minimum experience managing projects providing platforms with an API-first that securely orchestrates data exchanges with external systems, payment gateways, enterprise financial systems, document repositories, and enterprise Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
9. Must have minimum experience providing operational support and training for public-sector licensing systems, including support for end-users, system administrators, and technical staff.
10. Must have minimum experience with supporting accounts receivable functions for public-sector licensing or regulatory programs.
11. Must have familiarity with audit, internal control, and separation-of duties requirements common to local governments.
12. Must have minimum experience providing reporting and analytics tools for public-sector licensing or regulatory systems, including audit, financial, or operational reporting.
13. Must be able to provide a client/user end reference contact information for each applicable project meeting the requirements upon request in the qualification form. The reference contact must be a representative of the company for which the project was developed and must have served in a management or supervisory role.

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