Senior Project Manager

Location: Richmond, VA - local candidates only - Must live within 50 miles

Position Type: Hybrid, 3 days per week onsite

Contract Length: 8 months, likely extension

Position Overview:

The Center of Excellence (CoE) Program Manager will have 15+ years of experience in managing complex projects using Agile, Waterfall, and SAFe methodologies.

This role involves leading a team, overseeing program initiatives, and ensuring compliance. The candidate must possess strong leadership skills, PMP certification, and expertise in Microsoft Project Professional. This position requires onsite work three days a week, with two remote days.

Required Skills:

• 20 years of Project Management experience
• 15 years of experience managing complex projects with multiple workstreams and high organizational change
• 15 years of experience working in a PMO office
• PMP Certification
• 10 years of experience managing and leading direct reports
• 10 years of experience managing and providing guidance to project teams
• 10 years of experience providing training to project managers and project teams
• Expertise in Microsoft Project Professional
• 10 years of experience with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server), Microsoft Project/POL
• 5 years of experience working in a remote and local team environment
• 8 years of experience reporting metrics
• 5 years of business process improvement experience

Duties:

• Oversee initiatives for the assigned program.
• Oversee work in assigned program to ensure consistent process and quality standards.
• Assign resources to complete deliverables.
• Assign resources to support processes.
• Recommend changes to systems/processes as appropriate.
• Compliance with policies, standards, and guidelines.
• Work with peers and subordinates to define strategic direction for assigned program.
• Identify gaps, trends, patterns and implement process improvements as needed
• Be an expert in the use of the division core project management tool, Microsoft Project On-Line (POL).
• Assist in developing training objectives and needs on project management procedures and best practices.
• Develop project management processes, tools, templates, and training, drawing on common project management methodology.
• Establish and maintain Agile Project Management, Scaled, Kanban and Waterfall Project Management frameworks and their supporting practices
• Create new and enhanced procedures to capture best practices and mature the project management process.
• Manage the knowledgebase of project management reference materials to ensure accuracy, relevancy and currency.
• Monitor projects for compliance with established policies and procedures.
• Monitor projects to detect risks and issues and escalate as needed to ensure appropriate mitigation is applied to keep the project on-track.
• Guide project managers in identifying and managing risks, organizational change, managing budget, defining critical path and managing schedules.