PMO Project Manager 3 - Finance-Human Resources Portfolio

Job Description

The PMO Project Manager 3 is a very experienced, professional, lead position that oversees the management of a project team of solution managers, engineers, project managers, analysts, quality assurance engineers, and designers to:

Deliver high-quality solutions for customers and partners associated with the Finance-Human Resources portfolio.

Projects assigned will typically be highly complex and may have a wide scope and/or time frame.

Responsible for seeing projects through from initiation to delivery.

Responsible to plan and direct project schedules while managing budgets/resources and working with responsible Solution Managers, technical employees, and functional personnel associated with these projects.

Support the Elevate project involving the replacement of the Church Financial Information System (CFIS) created in PeopleSoft Finance to the new Elevate Oracle Finance solution.

Assigned to support one or more Solution Managers who have responsibility for different technical aspects of the Elevate project.

Act as a liaison between the PMO and assigned Solution Managers.

Responsible for managing Releases through from initiation to delivery while coordinating responsible Solution Managers, technical employees, and functional personnel associated with the effort.

This role will:

• Interact with customers, stakeholders, partners, leadership, and strategic vendors to ensure an excellent experience while delivering technical solutions:
  • Represent the PMO to the portfolio, client, and vendor personnel, ensuring that PMO processes and policies are followed, and that recommendations for improvement are reported back to PMO leadership.
  • Represent the client to the PMO, portfolio, and vendor, ensuring business needs are being met so the final delivered product represents the best solution for the client organization (Finance/HR).
  • Represent the portfolio to Church business and vendor personnel to ensure best planning/development standards are being followed while being delivered within reasonable (and agreed upon) timeframes.
• Provide leadership and strategy on industry trends.

This individual works with divine guidance to provide or support technology that furthers the mission of the Church and reflects the eternal impact of the gospel.

We value early, mid and late-career candidates and encourage all applicants with the posted skills and abilities to apply.

Responsibilities

• Assists with/leads the day-to-day technical project work of the team leveraging agile methodologies.
• Forecasts, mitigates, and manages risks, actions, issues, and decisions.
• Develops and executes project plans that ensures all deliverables are developed and released on time and within budget while maintaining the highest quality possible.
• Generates weekly reports complete with metrics showing the status of each assigned project/area of responsibility.
• Aligns, follows, and helps generate standard PMO processes to improve quality and consistency of portfolio products delivered.
• Works with the Solution Manager/Product Manager/PMO to ensure risks are identified, logged, and appropriately addressed.
• Provides PMO coaching to less-experienced team members, process insights to leadership, and actively leverage knowledge/experience toward improving the PMO and portfolio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent professional experience.
• Eight years in Technical Project Management or Technology Management experience leveraging agile methodologies.
• Strong, broad technology background with understanding of IT industry best practices for Project Management.
• Demonstrated expertise in building and maintaining productive working relationships.
• Proven success in leading large, cross-departmental/organizational project teams, spanning multiple years, and delivered within established budgets.
• Exceptional written and verbal communications skills.
• Ability to demonstrate team leadership and project planning.
• Demonstrated record of aligning with an organizational strategic vision.
• This job operates in a professional office environment: to successfully perform the essential functions of the job there may be physical requirements which need to be met such as sitting for long periods of time and using computer monitors/equipment.

PMP Certification or other recognized project management certification.Preferred:

• Experience in a global IT organization
• Scrum certifications

About Us

Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord's work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings- giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances-our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.

Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.

Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.