Leads enterprise project portfolio management process definition, piloting, rollout, and adoption for Pennsylvania’s Strategic Portfolio Management Office. Supports project managers and decentralized PMOs through training, demonstrations, documentation, governance, and process improvement. Collaborates with PPM tool developers across requirements, testing, and implementation. Requires extensive IT project management experience, program/portfolio or agile management expertise, project scheduling proficiency, and strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
- Job Title : Senior IT Project Manager
- Client: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (CoPA)
- Requisition: OA/TBO – FA1
- Work: Remote with occasional travel to Middletown, Pennsylvania
- Location: Pennsylvania – Local Candidates Only
Work Arrangement: Primarily Remote; occasional onsite presence required
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Rate: $70/hr
Visa Requirements: H-1B, Green Card (GC), or U.S. Citizen
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is seeking an experienced Senior IT Project Manager to support its Strategic Portfolio Management Office (SPMO). The team has recently deployed a new Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tool and is expanding its capabilities to support traditional project management, portfolio and program management, and agile management processes.
The selected candidate will lead process definition, piloting, rollout, and enterprise adoption of new PPM capabilities. This role will also support decentralized Project Management Offices (PMOs) through training, guidance, documentation, and ongoing process improvement.
Important: This position requires an experienced IT Project Manager with a proven background in project, program, portfolio, or agile management. Architect, developer, and business analyst profiles will not be considered.
Key Responsibilities
- Support project managers in adopting project planning and scheduling capabilities using Microsoft Project or comparable enterprise PPM tools.
- Conduct demonstrations, office hours, and one-on-one sessions to help users effectively utilize project scheduling features.
- Support the rollout and adoption of project change request workflows within the PPM tool.
- Apply PPM business process expertise to help configure and develop portfolio, program, and/or agile management modules.
- Collaborate with the PPM tool development team throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), from requirements definition through testing.
- Lead pilot implementations and support the broader enterprise rollout of new PPM capabilities.
- Develop and deliver role-specific training materials, user guides, tips and tricks, and knowledge base articles.
- Support decentralized PMOs in replicating and adopting standardized project and portfolio management processes.
- Contribute to governance committees responsible for assessing, approving, and prioritizing PPM tool enhancements.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
- Minimum 7 years of IT project management experience in an actual Project Manager role. Experience working on projects in other capacities will not count toward this requirement.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in program management, portfolio management, or agile project management.
- Experience with software testing, user training, and developing user guides or documentation.
- High proficiency in project scheduling using Microsoft Project or another enterprise-class PPM tool.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Visio and the Microsoft Office suite.
- Strong communication, facilitation, training, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to support primarily remote work with occasional onsite attendance in Pennsylvania.
- PMP, PgMP, PfMP, Scrum, or SAFe certifications.
- Experience with ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM).
- Experience supporting enterprise PPM implementations, process rollouts, governance, and adoption across multiple PMOs.
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