Description

Equinox Consulting Partners is seeking an experienced Project Management Office (PMO) Project Manager to join the Project & Portfolio Delivery Center of Excellence Team for our client in Richmond, VA. The successful candidate will manage and provide leadership to project teams in Waterfall, Scaled, Agile and Kanban environments. Candidate in this position will provide guidance to IT and Business Project Managers, Scrum Masters, and RTEs to ensure they follow VDOT Agile and Waterfall methodologies and other processes to stay in compliance. Only candidates local to the Richmond, VA area will be considered, as this is a hybrid position that will require working on-site 2-3 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Apply common PM methodology, processes, tools, templates, education, training, and PM competencies
• Oversee and communicate PM standards and compliance
• Accountable for overall tracking, analysis and reporting of ITD project portfolio
• Educate and develop project management staff (PMs and SMs); provide orientation for new PM staff on-boarding for ITD
• Establish and maintain Agile Project Management, Scaled, Kanban and Traditional Project Management frameworks and their supporting practices
• Develop and maintain a consistent set of project management standards, methodologies and tools to enable project managers to deliver projects on time and within budget
• Define processes and procedures, guides, templates for managing projects
• Support the direction and strategy of project management competency for the organization
• Liaise and partner with VITA to promote VDOT business and technology goals
• Liaise and partner with a particular delivery group (Agile, Outsourced or Maintenance) to provide advisory and coaching support to Program Managers, PM staff, project team members, and project stakeholders on the application of the PM practices.

Requirements

• Experience managing and providing guidance to project teams (8 years)
• Project Management experience (5 years)
• Experience providing training to project managers and project teams (5 years)
• Experience reporting metrics (2 years)
• Business process improvement experience (2 years)
• Experience with Six Sigma/Lean (2 years highly desired)
• Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server), Microsoft Project/POL experience (5 years)
• Experience working in a PMO office (5 years)
• Experience working in a remote and local team environment (2 years)
• Balance business/technical background with sufficient level of technical background to provide highly credible leadership to technology teams. (2 years)