IT Project Management Office Manager

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Metro
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Metro seeks a skilled and experienced Information Technology Project Management Office (IT PMO) Manager to lead and oversee our organization's IT project management division.

• Are you a visionary leader who is skilled at aligning technology with business requirements and resources?
• Do you have experience with multiple project management methodologies and a record of overseeing successful projects?
• Do you enjoy motivating people and working with diverse agency partners to improve business process functions and technology?

If this sounds like you, you could be a great fit as the leader for our IT Project Management Office. The IT PMO Manager will play a pivotal role in ensuring successful project execution, alignment with organizational and departmental goals, program and portfolio management services and continuous improvement of project management methodologies. This position will allow the successful applicant to design project intake structures, project prioritization methodologies, resource allocation and status reporting structures.

This role requires a dynamic individual with exceptional leadership, communication, problem solving and analytical skills. As a member of the IT Department’s Leadership Team, you are a key stakeholder in establishing technology prioritization at Metro.

• Develop the IT Project Management Office, its framework, processes, and standards.
• Lead and mentor a team of project managers and business analyst professionals that will focus on gathering business and technical requirements, manage projects throughout their lifecycle and assist with project related organizational change management practices.
• Establish a project intake process and project evaluation methodologies, including scope, schedule, budget and resource assessment, project risk and timing.
• Collaborate with management to align project initiatives with Metro's strategic goals and objectives.
• Create and establish a transparent prioritization process.
• Create project monitoring and status reporting processes to give transparency and performance feedback.
• Work with our Applications team and other Metro business areas to develop application roadmaps and business process improvements.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Enjoys problem-solving and fostering effective collaboration between business units and multiple stakeholders.
• Experience in change management practices.
• Experience with multiple methods of project management, including Waterfall, Agile and Lean.
• High level of organization with the ability to juggle multiple priorities, projects, and tasks.
• Ability to flex the approach to projects between methodologies, depending on the approach needed for the specific project.
• Experience with creating and updating status reports to include scope, schedule, and budget progression of projects as well as prioritization updates for departments and staff.
• Experience working within a union represented environment.

At Metro, we striveto cultivate diversity, advance equity, and practice inclusion in all of its work. This means attracting and empowering a workforce that is inclusive of a broad range of human qualities. Workplace diversity is both a moral imperative and a business strength, essential to providing quality support and services to our region. Metro’s goal is to hire, develop and retain highly skilled and talented individuals across all departments and programs who best reflect the diversity of our community.

We will consider any combination of relevant work experience, volunteering, education, and transferable skills as qualifying unless an item or section is labeled required. Please be clear and specific in your application materials on how your background is relevant.

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