The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for successfully planning, organizing, and motivating diverse project teams throughout all phases of Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid projects.
The Senior Project Manager will enable the transformation of identified requirements or opportunities to executable plans for delivery.
Provide ongoing project level governance and oversight to projects throughout their execution.
The incumbent’s deliverables will provide exceptional value to the Commonwealth's internal and external stakeholders.
Review statements of requirements and RFP responses through selection/acquisition.
Facilitate the technical and planning aspects of the technology procurement process.
Coordinate across multi-disciplinary teams to develop plans, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures that will enable future execution of a project or initiative.
Incorporate agency best practices into those project plans.
Ensure plans minimally include tasks, schedules, identification of potential risks, checkpoints, reporting of status and appropriate allocation of resources from all required disciplines.
Seamlessly transition developed plans to the client and/or vendor teams for successful execution using PMI best-practices.
Provide oversight to ensure projects in execution include a framework for governance encompassing adequate meetings, reporting, metrics, risk and issue management, and quality assurance.
Validate that the assigned project team(s) adhere to project governance standards throughout the project lifecycle.
Monitor progress by third-party vendors and define and measure their progress with pre-defined metrics and milestones.
Manage working relationships with key stakeholders at all levels, including executive management, business management, vendors, project sponsors, suppliers, and technology management.
Set goals for initiatives that are consistent with technical objectives and the agency’s overall technology strategy.
Adhere to the client project management practices and governance requirements.
Exhibit significant emotional quotient (EQ) in handling project challenges and maintain a positive project culture in line with the client mission and shared values.
Requirements
The candidate should have 15 years of overall IT experience.
Experience with technology infrastructure is preferred.
Application Development experience is a plus.
The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience managing large projects in a Portfolio and a bachelor's degree.
The candidate should be proficient in Project Management tools such as Microsoft Project, Visio, and Office required.
The candidate should possess financial literacy including budgeting, accounting, investing and managing credit.
The candidate should have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in procurement management including original development of Statements of Work (SOWs), Requests for Quotation (RFQs) and contracts.
PMP Certification through PMI or Qualified under Commonwealth of Virginia Qualification Standards for IT Project Managers.
Experience with VITA’s Commonwealth Technology Portfolio (CTP) system and ECOS process is strongly preferred.
Experience with the core Commonwealth IT procurement processes (RFP, VITA Statewide Contract, and CAI SOW) is preferred.
Benefits
Additional responsibilities as assigned.
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