Senior Project Manager (BHJOB1435_32101)

Senior Project Manager

Job 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 staff 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 client 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 the client’s mission and shared values.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Large Project Management Required 10 Years
• Portfolio Management Required 5 Years
• Project Management Tools Required 10 Years
• PMP or Qualified under Commonwealth of Virginia Qualification Standards for IT Project Managers for Category 4 Projects. Required 8 Years
• Comprehensive knowledge of vendor contracting, and vendor management methodologies related to information technology projects. Required 8 Years
• Financial Literacy Required 10 Years
• Hands-on working experience with Microsoft Project. Required 4 Years
• Must possess an active PMP from PMI OR a PM certification from VITA (no other certifications are accepted) Required 5 Years
• VITA CTP Highly desired 1 Years
• Proposal Development/Business Writing Highly desired 10 Years
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure and software systems, including Azure and Google Cloud. Highly desired 8 Years
• Experience managing cloud-based solutions for data management and analytics. Highly desired 8 Years
• Experience in IT Infrastructure delivery (networking, physical plant, vendor management, site provisioning) is preferred. Desired 8 Years

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