Title: PMO Director.
Location: Olympia, WA. This position is hybrid with a minimum of 25% time each month onsite in Olympia, WA.
Duration: 12 Months Contract.
Below sills are very important to have with strong experience:
· Workers’ Compensation Professional (WCP)
· WCSM Program Director
· WCSM PMO.
· (Risk & Issue Management, Change Management, Budget Management, Schedule Management, Status Reporting, etc.).
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools, such as Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini to increase efficiency of project management efforts.
• Five years’ experience leading large projects in state or local government.
Job Description:
The WCSM PMO Director will work with the WCSM Program Director to evaluate WCSM Program objectives, the structure needed to enable those objectives, the needs to achieve that structure, and make recommendations to restructure the WCSM Program accordingly. The WCSM PMO Director will oversee the creation and operation of PMO functions for the WCSM Program, enabling success of the WCSM Program and its underlying projects through the foundational support provided by the WCSM PMO.
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.
o 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.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to receiving your reply today.
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