What will your job entail?
• Applies expertise on program and project management disciplines
• Utilizes available Project Management tools and techniques, favoring Velocity’s PMO templates and PMP best practices
• Drives scalable and sustainable process improvements, innovation, and automation
• Meets with PMO leadership and key stakeholders to understand and define the vision, scope and business objectives of project work and establishes the budget and expected return on investment
• Creates and refines business cases, charters, and other project artifacts to meet PMO standards
• Identifies and manages project resources and other key stakeholders; Cultivates stakeholder trust
• Confirms all needed contracts meet project requirements and are fully executed
• Makes certain that compliance activities and risks have appropriate review and approvals
• Elicits and validates the business needs of key stakeholders, be they customers, end users or managing leadership to refine the scope and deliverable definitions
• Develops a detailed project plan listing milestones, outlining tasks, assigning resources, highlighting dependencies and creating the schedule
• Confirms team member capacity and resources to complete all required activities per the schedule
• Oversees documentation standards and storage
• Identifies risks and develops mitigation strategies to monitor and manage risks
• Monitors project delivery and ensures that milestones are achieved on schedule
• Controls the project scope and follows change control processes
• Tracks project expenses for adherence to financial constraints
• Monitors project benefits realized compared to projections
• Leads project kick-off calls, core team meetings, stakeholder status update meetings, and other meetings as requested. E-mails meeting materials and/or meeting notes before and/or after meetings
• Communicates regular written updates on project progress, issues, and risks to different stakeholder groups and maintains the logs
• Ensures that cross-functional teams are aligned and coordinate effectively to achieve project goals
• Uses interpersonal and facilitation skills for brainstorming, group problem solving, and conflict resolution
• Defers appropriate decisions to the team, while maintaining control and visibility into the plan and progress. Takes control to guide or escalate decision-making when necessary
• Resolves the risks/issues timely or frames them appropriately for next level of escalation
• Respectfully listens to the team and empowers them to drive for continuous improvement. Creates forums for feedback loops and retrospectives.
• Closes out the project on completion with a final report, archives the artifacts, documents lessons learned, and celebrates the success of the project with the team & stakeholders
• Oversees a seamless hand-off to the Product Owner and sets expectations for continued management and stakeholder communication