VDOT Project Manager (Hybrid)

Location: Richmond, VA
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Starting at: $70.00/Hourly

Job Notes

About The Role

The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for successfully planning, organizing, and motivating diverse project teams throughout all phases of Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid projects, and for delivering projects that provide exceptional value to the Commonwealth’s internal and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

  • Coordinate vendors and consultants, and VDOT IT and business staff as assigned, in the execution of IT projects and related procurements.
  • Coordinate and oversee the development of proposals, statement of work, statement of requirements and RFP responses.
  • Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments and removing roadblocks to their work.
  • Facilitate multi-disciplinary teams in the development of plans, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures for completion of a project.
  • Oversee and manage execution and/or coordination of day-to-day project activities as required.
  • Manage working relationships with key stakeholders, including executive management, business management, vendors, project sponsors, suppliers, and technology management.
  • Set project goals that are consistent with technical objectives and the agency’s overall technology strategy.
  • Track and communicate a project’s progress from a schedule, cost, and risk perspective to the project team, customers, and project stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with technology leads and solution architects to incorporate agency best practices into project plans.
  • Drive consistent project delivery through the entire project lifecycle, including, execution of procurements, definition of project plans, resource allocation, management of project risks, scope, and schedule, delivery of value, and well-ordered transitions to operations.
  • Monitor progress by third-party vendors and define and measure their progress with metrics.
  • Develop and maintain project budget, plans, task lists, schedules, risks, and status, to include resource allocation and schedules.
  • Adhere to VDOT and VITA project management practices and governance requirements.
  • Exhibit significant emotional quotient (EQ) in handling project challenges and maintain a positive project culture in line with VDOT’s mission and shared values.
  • Additional responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications/Skills

  • Strong experience in developing, executing, and managing cloud hosted SaaS implementation projects.
  • Strong experience leading the business and IT resources through the discovery and documentation of business and technical requirements in request for proposal and statement of requirement formats.
  • Strong analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills.
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills for collaborating and team building.
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the demonstrated ability to simplify and briefly, succinctly communicate complex issues to multiple audiences.
  • Ability to lead others to implement new approaches, systems, structures, and methods.
  • Ability to define and balance the competing demands for quality, scope, schedule, and cost.
  •  Communicate timelines and expectations to technical and business staff.
  •  Ability to analyze and document system processes.
  •  Solid understanding of software development lifecycle models.
  • Exceptional knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall project management principles and practices. In addition, the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a particular project and business environment.
  • Knowledge of process engineering and re-engineering techniques and practices.
  • The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience managing large projects and a bachelor’s degree.
  • Fluency in Project Management tools such as Microsoft Project, Visio, and Office required.
  • PMP Certification through PMI
  • Experience with VITA’s Commonwealth Technology Portfolio (CTP) system and ECOS process is strongly preferred.
  • Experience with Project Management Office methodologies and practices is strongly preferred.
  • Experience with the core Commonwealth IT procurement processes (RFP, VITA Statewide Contract, and CAI SOW) is preferred.

Additional Information

  • Current Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute(PMI) – OR – VITA PM certification
  • Candidate must have a minimum of 10 years experience managing large projects
  • Microsoft Office products (Word,Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio,PowerPoint, Project Server)
  • The candidate should have 15 years of overall IT experience

About Betis Group

Betis Group, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic prohibited under Federal, State, or local laws.

Employee Benefits

Retirement Plan

Betis Group encourages employees to take advantage of the benefit of pre-tax contributions toward their retirement plan. In doing so, we offer an employer match that is dollar-for-dollar up to 3%, which employees can utilize after one year of service with Betis.

Betis employees and their dependents are provided comprehensive medical insurance cover through CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Insurance Company. We provide employees with the option of an HMO or two choices of PPOs and pay 50% of the employee and dependent premium. The employee’s monthly costs are deducted on a pre-tax basis.

From Federal Holidays to vacation time and sick leave, Betis Group offers qualified employees paid time off.

Betis Group encourages staff to enhance their knowledge and advance their career paths, which is why we offer a number of company-paid education and training opportunities. This includes tuition reimbursement for approved, job-related courses.

Betis Group employees will receive a cash bonus for every hired employee they refer to the company. Bonus is payable 90 days after the referred employee starts with Betis Group.

Taking care of our employees involves more than on-the-job care. Betis Group provides for Short-and Long-Term Disability Insurance and Life Insurance at no cost to an employee.

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