Project Manager

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 incumbents deliverables will provide exceptional value to the Commonwealths internal and external stakeholders.

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 multidisciplinary 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 bestpractices.
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 thirdparty vendors and define and measure their progress with predefined 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 agencys 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 VDOTs mission and shared values.
Additional responsibilities as assigned.

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 decisionmaking 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 reengineering techniques and practices.

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 bachelors 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 VITAs 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.

V Group Inc. is an IT Services company which supplies IT staffing project management and delivery services in software network help desk and all IT areas. Our primary focus is the public sector including state and federal contracts. We have multiple awards/ contracts with the following states: AR CA DE FL GA IL KY MD ME MI NC NJ NY OH OR PA SC TX VA and WA. If you are considering applying for a position with V Group or in partnering with us on a position please feel free to contact me for any questions you may have regarding our services and the advantages we can offer you as a consultant.

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