State of Michigan - Lansing, MI
posted 13 days ago
About the position
The DTMB Center for Shared Solutions Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) supports the development, support, and maintenance of the Agile Methodology policies, methodologies and supporting tools to provide organization wide direction in the areas of IT investment, project management, and systems engineering. This position serves as an Agile Coach working with project teams to properly scope IT projects, programs, or portfolios to achieve business objectives and regulatory compliance. The employee provides dedicated support, guidance, and expertise to our project teams to enable the delivery of high-quality projects efficiently and adaptively. This role is instrumental in fostering a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and transparency across all levels of DTMB. This position provides services that impact IT projects from all state agencies, including projects with high visibility and sensitivity. These projects typically have a large and diverse set of stakeholders, utilize vendor participation, and require coordination of multiple complex schedules and significant integration with other systems. The projects typically have durations of 6 months or longer with 20 more team members, require communication at the Agency Executive level, and failure to achieve business outcome present significant risks to the State of Michigan. This position will regularly interact with project teams for status of budget, quality, and schedule, escalate issues and risks as needed to executives, and perform coaching and mentoring activities.
Responsibilities
- Support the development, support, and maintenance of Agile Methodology policies and tools.
- Work with project teams to scope IT projects, programs, or portfolios.
- Provide dedicated support, guidance, and expertise to project teams.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and transparency.
- Interact with project teams for status of budget, quality, and schedule.
- Escalate issues and risks to executives as needed.
- Conduct coaching and mentoring activities.
Requirements
- Possession of a bachelor's degree with not less than 21 semester (32 term) credits in computer science, data processing, computer information systems, data communications, networking, systems analysis, computer programming, information assurance, project management, or mathematics.
- Three years of professional experience equivalent to an IT project coordinator.
- Possession of a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification may be substituted for the experience requirement.
- Possession of a Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) and/or Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification may be substituted for 1 year of the experience requirement.
- Possession of SUITE Certification may be substituted for 2 Educational Credits.
Benefits
- Sign-on bonus up to $2,500 for certain classifications.
- Sign-on bonus up to $3,500 for certain classifications.
