Project Manager – PMO

• Understands project management concepts and practices from a variety of recognized sources (e.g., PMI /PMP, Ernst & Young Navigator, AGILE/SCRUM).
• Leads others in the proper PM principles and practices and a thorough understanding of the differences between a project “timeline” vs. a “plan.”
• Leads others and may be required to provide feedback to managers for evaluation purposes.
• Assists in defining & driving the use of a “project planning horizon” and a “Minor/Major/Key, InComing / OutGoing” milestone tracking model throughout all our projects.
• Oversees the throughput of IT projects by using portfolio management, project management, and organizational change management disciplines.
• Manages the intake of new project requests, the preparation of evaluation-ready project proposals, and the handoff of approved project initiation documents to project managers in other departments.
• Forecasts and tracks the availability of people to do the project work throughout the project life cycle.
• Publishes monthly, and annual portfolio reports based on information collected from the project teams.
• Oversees the closure of projects with follow-up reporting to those who approved them.
• May be required to identify projects that should be frozen or canceled based on criteria set forth by the leadership and/or industry best practices.
• Provides instructions to, and evaluation of, individual adherence to established standards.
• Provides input to individual employee performance reviews related to their compliance to standards and execution of the work and principles of our project management efforts.
• Performs and promotes all activities in compliance with equal employment and nondiscrimination policies; follows federal laws, state laws, school board policies and the professional standards.

STRATEGY & PLANNING

• Assists business and technology leaders with articulating new project ideas.
• Forecasts future resource capacity and reporting on existing resource utilization.
• Presents accurate representations of project progress, health, risks, and ongoing challenges.
• Attends various steering committee and PMO meetings, representing the PMO and project management interests.

OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT

• Ensures the completeness and currency of project and portfolio reporting.
• Builds & Manages a project tracking system.
• Validates portfolio-level reporting before alerting senior leadership of its availability.
• Manages portfolio and project processes to maximize throughput of selected projects.