IT PMO Liaison - PT 20 hrs. A Week - Need local candidates

Alrek Business Solutions - Richmond, VA

Part-time - Mid Level

Richmond, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The IT PMO Liaison will play a crucial role in the successful planning, organization, and motivation of diverse project teams throughout all phases of Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid projects. This position is designed for a part-time commitment of 20 hours a week and is expected to last for a duration of 12 months, with the possibility of extension. The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for transforming identified requirements or opportunities into executable plans for delivery, ensuring that the projects align with the Commonwealth's internal and external stakeholder needs. The incumbent will provide ongoing project-level governance and oversight throughout the execution of projects, ensuring that deliverables provide exceptional value. In this role, the IT PMO Liaison will originate and oversee proposals, statements of work, and responses to requests for proposals (RFPs) through the selection and acquisition process. The individual will coordinate across multi-disciplinary teams to develop comprehensive plans, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures that will facilitate the future execution of projects or initiatives. It is essential that the plans include tasks, schedules, potential risks, checkpoints, status reporting, and appropriate resource allocation from all required disciplines. The incumbent will ensure a seamless transition of developed plans to internal VDOT and/or vendor teams for successful execution, utilizing PMI best practices. Oversight will be provided to ensure that projects in execution include a governance framework that encompasses adequate meetings, reporting, metrics, risk and issue management, and quality assurance. The IT PMO Liaison will monitor the progress of third-party vendors, defining and measuring their progress against pre-defined metrics and milestones. Additionally, the role requires managing working relationships with key stakeholders at all levels, including executive management, business management, vendors, project sponsors, suppliers, and technology management. The incumbent will set goals for initiatives that align with technical objectives and the agency's overall technology strategy, while adhering to VDOT and VITA project management practices and governance requirements. Emotional intelligence will be critical in handling project challenges and maintaining a positive project culture in line with VDOT's mission and shared values.

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 future execution of a project or initiative.
• 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 VDOT and/or 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.
• 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.
• Adhere to VDOT and VITA project management practices and governance requirements.
• Exhibit significant emotional quotient (EQ) in handling project challenges and maintain a positive project culture in line with VDOT's mission and shared values.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

• 15 years of overall IT experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience managing large projects in a Portfolio.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• Proficient in Project Management tools such as Microsoft Project, Visio, and Office.
• Possess financial literacy including budgeting, accounting, investing and managing credit.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in procurement management including original development of Statements of Work (SOWs), Requests for Quotation (RFQs) and contracts.
• PMP Certification through PMI or Qualified under Commonwealth of Virginia.
• 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.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with VITA CTP (Highly desired)
• Proposal Development/Business Writing (Highly desired)
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure and software systems, including Azure and Google Cloud (Highly desired)
• Experience managing cloud-based solutions for data management and analytics (Highly desired)
• Experience in IT Infrastructure delivery (networking, physical plant, vendor management, site provisioning) is preferred.