IT Project Manager (Hybrid)

$166,400 - $166,400/Yr

Gsk Solutions - Richmond, VA

Part-time - Mid Level

Richmond, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The VDOT IT PMO Liaison will be responsible for successfully planning, organizing, and motivating diverse project teams throughout all phases of Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid projects. The Senior Project Manager will enable the transformation of identified requirements or opportunities to executable plans for delivery. In addition, the incumbent will provide ongoing project level governance and oversight to projects throughout their execution. The incumbent's deliverables will provide exceptional value to the Commonwealth's internal and external stakeholders. The role requires the origination and oversight of proposals, statements of work, statements of requirements, and RFP responses through selection/acquisition. The Senior Project Manager will coordinate across multi-disciplinary teams to develop plans, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures that will enable future execution of a project or initiative, incorporating agency best practices into those project plans. The plans must minimally include tasks, schedules, identification of potential risks, checkpoints, reporting of status, and appropriate allocation of resources from all required disciplines. The incumbent will ensure a seamless transition of developed plans to internal VDOT and/or vendor teams for successful execution using PMI best-practices. They will provide oversight to ensure projects in execution include a framework for governance encompassing adequate meetings, reporting, metrics, risk and issue management, and quality assurance. The Senior Project Manager will monitor progress by third-party vendors and define and measure their progress with pre-defined metrics and milestones. Additionally, they will manage working relationships with key stakeholders at all levels, including executive management, business management, vendors, project sponsors, suppliers, and technology management. The role also involves setting goals for initiatives that are consistent with technical objectives and the agency's overall technology strategy, adhering to VDOT and VITA project management practices and governance requirements, and exhibiting significant emotional quotient (EQ) in handling project challenges while maintaining a positive project culture in line with VDOT's mission and shared values. Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed.

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.
• Incorporate agency best practices into project plans.
• 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.
• 10 years of experience managing large projects in a Portfolio.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Proficient in Project Management tools such as Microsoft Project, Visio, and Office.
• Financial literacy including budgeting, accounting, investing and managing credit.
• 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 Qualification Standards for IT Project Managers.
• 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 technology infrastructure is preferred.
• Application Development experience is a plus.
• Experience managing cloud-based solutions for data management and analytics.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure and software systems, including Azure and Google Cloud.
• Experience in IT Infrastructure delivery (networking, physical plant, vendor management, site provisioning) is preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive hourly rate of $80/hr on C2C.
• Opportunity to work with the State of Virginia on critical IT projects.
• Part-time position with flexible hours (20 hours/week).
• In-person interview process.