Client is seeking a senior, experienced Project Management Office (PMO) Project Manager to join the Project & Product Delivery Center of Excellence Team. This position is located in Richmond, Virginia.
- The Candidate will provide guidance to project teams using Waterfall, Agile, SAFE, and Kanban methodologies.
- This includes working with Project Managers, Scrum Masters, and Release Train Engineers (RTEs) to ensure they comply with VDOT and VITA procedures.
- The Candidate will create and manage process documentation, job aids, templates and other reference materials for use by project managers.
- The Candidate will develop training programs and deliver training to project managers.
- The Candidate will as necessarily intervene in projects with elevated risk to mitigate risks to keep the project on-track.
Please note: This position is not seeking project delivery PM.
This position’s specific responsibilities and duties will include, but are not limited to:
- Be an expert in VDOT and VITA project management procedures and requirements.
- Be an expert in the use of the division core project management tool, Microsoft Project On-Line (POL).
- Develop and deliver training on VDOT and VITA project management procedures and best practices.
- Develop project management processes, tools, templates, and training, drawing on common project management methodology, the PMBOK and established VDOT and VITA methodologies.
- Establish and maintain Agile Project Management, Scaled, Kanban and Watefall Project Management frameworks and their supporting practices
- Create new and enhanced procedures to capture best practices and mature the project management process.
- Manage the knowledgebase of project management reference materials to ensure accuracy, relevancy and currency.
- Monitor projects for compliance with established policies and procedures.
- Monitor projects to detect risks and issues and escalate as needed to ensure appropriate mitigation is applied to keep the project on-track.
- Guide project managers in identifying and managing risks.
- Guide project managers in managing organizational change.
- Guide project managers in defining critical path and managing schedule.
- Guide project managers in managing budget.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Ability to interact effectively with customers and project team members.
- Knowledge of project management tools, methods and practices.
- Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
- Ability to program and create custom reports using IT application standard tools.
- PMP certification or VITA Project Manager Certification (can be obtained within 120 days of hire).
- Advanced skills using Microsoft Project Professional.
- 10 years’ experience with scrum, Agile, SAFE and Waterfall methodologies.
- 10 years’ experience managing complex projects with multiple workstreams and high organizational change.
- Must be able to quickly and easily adapt to changing priorities, embracing changes to deliver leadership and guidance.
- Experience creating and managing knowledge bases, job aids and training programs.
- Strong functional understanding of MS Project, Project Server, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Planner and Power BI
- Ability to assess project risks and issues, and determine mitigation required to contain or resolve them.
- Demonstrated understanding of project portfolio and lifecycle management processes
- Demonstrated understanding of governance processes, procedures and policies for project management.
- Demonstrated understanding of organizational change.
- Demonstrated understanding of how to manage the project critical path.
- Demonstrated strong facilitation and collaboration skills.
- Demonstrated skills in developing new processes that incorporate best practices and address stakeholder needs.
- Demonstrated ability to create clear and concise written procedural documentation.
- Ability to articulate thoughts and ideas in support of initiatives that are being newly developed.
- Ideal candidates would be self-starters who can articulate thoughts and ideas in support of initiatives that are being newly developed.