Job Description: 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 the 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 client and 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.
- dhere to client project management practices and governance requirements.
- Exhibit significant emotional quotient (EQ) in handling project challenges and maintaining a positive project culture in line with client mission and shared values.
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.
- bility 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.
- bility to lead others to implement new approaches, systems, structures, and methods.
- bility 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.
Qualification:
- The candidate should have 15 years of overall IT experience.
- Experience with technology infrastructure is preferred.
- pplication 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.
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.