Project Portfolio Manager

Position: Project Portfolio Manager 3

Atlanta, GA 30318, Remote

Type: Contract



US Citizens only due to legal or government contract requirement

100% Remote (East Coast residency strongly preferred)



As an IT Project Portfolio Manager, you will facilitate a cross-functional
team to collect, organize, document, and communicate project related
information such as scope, requirements, resources required and their
necessary skills to work on the project. Some of your primary tasks will
be to conduct project planning, execution, and control of selected projects
on the JIRA portfolio platform. You will also organize information and all
documentations in both Jira and Confluence platforms. You will ensure that
the leadership team has all necessary information to guide and enable them
on making decisions to approve the projects for successful execution.



Job Requirements:

- Gatekeeper for the overall project portfolio-level intake process
- Develops ongoing project pipeline from customer requests
- Work with the Team Leads and Project Managers to plan and manage
resource capacity and utilization.
- Monitors the health of all portfolio initiatives, interdependencies,
risks, and issues.
- Provides reporting mechanisms and standards for all projects in the
portfolio, ensuring transparency for
- stakeholders and leadership.
- Facilitates a regular cadence of portfolio reviews with the management
that drives the effective delivery of projects and supports continual
learning and improvement for the organization operational units and
research laboratories.
- Maintains a customer first mindset in all elements of the portfolio
intake process.
- Maintain a knowledgebase of internal and external customer practices
related to the project and portfolio management practices, resource
capacity planning leveraging supported enterprise-wide tools and processes
that enable standard portfolio performance reporting.
- Develop, deploy, operate, and continuously improve the project
portfolio management process with a customer focused and fit for purpose
mindset
- Develop, deploy, and maintain supporting portfolio management tools
(e.g., project intake form, business
- case form, prioritization matrices, portfolio KPI?s, portfolio
dashboard, etc.)
- Act as a liaison between the project teams (project managers, project
leaders, project sponsors) and other departmental leadership.
- Communicate with ESD Director as necessary to discuss and resolve
resources required to deliver the projects.
- Experience with Various project management Frameworks and Processes,
Such as Agile



Education and other requirements:

- A Bachelor?s degree is required: Preferred degree in Business,
Accounting, or IT-related field.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Project Management software
- 5+ years of senior IT project management experience preferably with
large technology implementation projects.
- 5+ years of experience with Agile project delivery methodology
- 5+ years portfolio-level project intake governance
- Excellent oral and written communications
- Interpersonal, negotiation, planning, judgement, leadership,
decision-making, analysis and problem- solving skills
- Certifications preferred; PMP, SAFe program consultant, Certified
Scrum Master.