The Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) Project Management Office (PMO) Manager leads the organization’s project management team and oversees the portfolio of enterprise-level projects. The PMO Manager promotes the use of project management principles, tools, and best practices in the execution and management of enterprise-wide projects.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Oversee the portfolio of enterprise-level projects, ensuring projects are implemented in alignment with strategic and departmental goals.
- Lead and manage the PMO team in implementing large, complex enterprise-wide projects, ensuring projects completed are on-time and within budget. Provide daily management, coaching, and development of team members, and help them to achieve peak productivity and performance, and continuous improvement.
- Oversee project risk management through comprehensive mitigation assessment and planning techniques.
- Facilitate meetings and workshops to identify areas of improvement, and address and mitigate risks.
- Ensure PMO processes, tools, and templates are appropriately utilized and updated to meet organization and industry best practices.
- Monitor and manage resources, e.g., team, business unit, and external vendors, and ensure appropriate workload allocation. Track expenditures against progress towards goals. Provide feedback and support to ensure on-time project execution, within budget, and achievement of expected performance standards.
- Monitor key performance indicators, perform data analyses, and report projects’ status and success metrics to leadership. Continually work to improve data analysis processes, tools, and procedures.
- Work with stakeholders to define project scope, goals, and deliverables in support of business plans. Estimate and identify resources required to achieve project goals.
- Formulate annual initiatives and participate in developing the annual PMO budget.
- Work with PMO Director to optimize the maturity level of the PMO.
- Educate others within the organization on the value and functions of the PMO, project management principles and processes, and tools.
- Other related duties as assigned.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree in business, management, or related field. Equivalent combination of applicable education, training, certification, or experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
Skills/Experience:
- Demonstrated expertise in project management methodologies and tools, e.g., Agile, Waterfall, Scrum.
- Strong project management skills. Demonstrated ability to effectively manage multiple complex projects.
- Effective coaching and mentoring skills.
- Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
- Strong vendor management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Effective group facilitation skills.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Demonstrated ability to influence others and influence change.
- Ability to establish credibility and be decisive.
- Ability to interact with diverse team members, leadership, and external vendors and build effective working relationships.
- Unequivocal commitment to the highest standards of personal and business ethics and conduct.
- Mission-driven, guided by core values, and a pleasure to work with.
Education & Experience Requirements
- Five years of project management experience, including enterprise-wide projects.
- Three years of experience using project planning tools, e.g., Agile tools, Microsoft Project/Project Server, SharePoint
- Three years of experience leading and managing people and/or project teams.
- Three years of experience facilitating business and technical analyses meetings, focus group session, webinars, interviews, and stakeholder meetings.
- Two years of experience preparing status reports and delivering management briefings.
Preferences
- Two years of information technology project management experience.
- Two years of experience managing vendor performance.
Certifications & Licensure
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Preferences
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jul 8 2018
Active Until:
Aug 8 2018
Hiring Organization:
Wounded Warrior Project, Inc.
industry:
Nonprofit