VDOT Center of Excellence Program Manager - InfoPeople
Richmond, VA
About the Job
We are seeking a highly experienced Program Manager to lead a Center of Excellence. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in project management, team leadership, and organizational change management.
Minimum Qualifications
- 10 years' experience leading and managing direct reports. Set direction and strategy for the assigned team.
- 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.
- VITA Project Manager Certification (can be obtained within 120 days of hire) is a plus but not required.
- Advanced skills using Microsoft Project Professional.
- 15 years of combined experience with scrum, Agile, SAFe, Product Line, and Waterfall methodologies.
- 15 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.
- Demonstrated understanding of procurement and vendor management.
- 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.
Skills
- Experience managing and leading direct reports - Required: 10 Years
- Experience managing and providing guidance to project teams - Required: 10 Years
- Project Management experience - Required: 20 Years
- Experience providing training to project managers and project teams - Required: 10 Years
- Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server), Microsoft Project/POL experience - Required: 10 Years
- Experience working in a PMO office - Required: 15 Years
- Experience working in a remote and local team environment - Required: 5 Years
- Experience reporting metrics - Required: 8 Years
- Business process improvement experience - Required: 5 Years
- Experience managing complex projects with multiple workstreams and high organizational change - Required: 15 Years
Source : InfoPeople