PMO Director

Required Experience :

• An active Project Management Professional Certification from the Project Management Institute, or equivalent certification.
• Ten years’ experience providing program and project management services to projects of comparable size and scale, including a minimum of five years leading large-scale projects. That experience should include:
• Experience in large business and IT modernization projects, with a portfolio of projects that require integrated project management oversight.
• Five years’ experience leading large projects in state or local government.
• Five years’ experience in large-scale complex business transformation projects.
• Five years’ experience managing vendors contracted to provide modernization services.
• Experience establishing standard plans and tools to facilitate common project management processes (risk & issue management, change management, budget management, schedule management, status reporting, etc.).

• Experience managing core competencies inherent to PMO operations:
• Experience managing projects to maintain program budget and achieve cost savings when appropriate.  
• Experience creating and managing complex integrated schedules with Microsoft Project.
• Experience with oversight of stakeholder communications and reporting project progress to a variety of stakeholders.
• Ability to lead and motivate diverse project teams toward defined outcomes utilizing project management best practices.
• Demonstrated effective leadership of program and project staff to build strong, trusting relationships with the project team, steering committees, sponsors, the authorizing environment (e.g., the legislature), and other key stakeholders.
• Experience from a single project may be used to satisfy any or all the five years’ experience requirements concurrently.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Certification as a Workers’ Compensation Professional (WCP) from the American Society of Workers’ Compensation Professionals, or equivalent certification.

• Demonstrated experience using AI tools, such as Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini to increase efficiency of project management efforts.