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Project Manager PMP
  • 29-Apr-2024 to 13-May-2024 (UTC)
  • Richmond, VA, USA
  • Full Time
  • Long Term Contract Length
  • 40 Weekly Hours

Complete Description:

- 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.

- In addition, the incumbent will 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.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Originate and oversee proposals, statements of work, 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 internal VDOT 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 VDOT and VITA project management practices and governance requirements.

- Exhibit significant emotional quotient (EQ) in handling project challenges and maintain a positive project culture in line with VDOT’s mission and shared values.

- Additional responsibilities as assigned.

 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

- Strong experience in developing, executing, and managing a portfolio of projects.

- Strong experience leading the business and IT resources through the discovery and documentation of business and technical requirements in request for proposal and statement of requirement formats.

- Strong analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills.

- Exceptional interpersonal skills for collaborating and team building.

- Ability to plan in a rapidly changing environment and to provide guidance for changes as required for the life of the project.

- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the demonstrated ability to simplify and briefly, succinctly communicate complex issues to multiple audiences.

- Ability to lead others to implement new approaches, systems, structures, and methods.

- Ability to define and balance the competing demands for quality, scope, schedule, and cost.

- Communicate timelines and expectations to technical and business staff.

- Solid understanding of software development life cycle models.

- Exceptional knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall project management principles and practices. In addition, the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a particular project and business environment.

- Knowledge of process engineering and re-engineering techniques and practices.

 

QUALIFICATIONS

- 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

- Experience with VITA’s Commonwealth Technology Portfolio (CTP) system and ECOSprocess is strongly preferred.

- Experience with the core Commonwealth IT procurement processes (RFP, VITA Statewide Contract, and CAI SOW) is preferred.

 

Fill the skill matrix below:

Skill

Required/Desired

Amount

Candidate's No. of years of experience

Large Project Management

Required

10

 

Portfolio Management

Required

5

 

Project Management Tools

Required

10

 

PMP or Qualified under Commonwealth of Virginia Qualification Standards for IT Project Managers for Category 4 Projects.

Required

8

 

Comprehensive knowledge of vendor contracting, and vendor management methodologies related to information technology projects.

Required

8

 

Financial Literacy

Required

10

 

Hands-on working experience with Microsoft Project.

Required

4

 

Must possess an active PMP from PMI OR a PM certification from VITA (no other certifications are accepted)

Required

5

 

VITA CTP

Highly desired

1

 

Proposal Development/Business Writing

Highly desired

10

 

Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure and software systems, including Azure and Google Cloud.

Highly desired

8

 

Experience managing cloud-based solutions for data management and analytics.

Highly desired

8

 

Experience in IT Infrastructure delivery (networking, physical plant, vendor management, site provisioning) is preferred.

Desired

8