Program Management Office Director jobs in Tallahassee, FL

Job Description:

Education and Certifications Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field. Or equivalent work experience. (Required)

Specific knowledge skills & Abilities

1. Overall Responsibilities: Directs, manages, plans, and leads a team of programmatic staff responsible for executing vision, system requirements, change management, training of field staff, and successful implementation of a new CCWIS system.

2. Requirements Management: Development, refinement, and finalization of system requirements. This includes crafting a visionary blueprint that balances innovative solutions with adherence to federal and statutory mandates. Leads team to collect detailed functional and non-functional requirements from various stakeholders. Analyze these requirements to understand their impact on business processes and system design.

3. Leadership and Team Management: Provide exemplary leadership to a team comprising specialized leads in Programmatic, Change Management, and Training domains. Foster a culture of excellence and collaboration, guiding the team towards achieving strategic objectives.

4. Stakeholder Engagement: Strategically engage with partners and external stakeholders, ensuring their meaningful involvement in the system's evolution. Spearhead initiatives to gather and integrate their insights, thereby enriching the system's design and functionality. Provide consistent updates to community stakeholders in a variety of mediums.

5. Advocacy and Representation: Champion the representation of the client's programmatic and practice perspectives within the project framework. Advocate for these perspectives, ensuring they are integral to the project's vision and execution.

6. Communication and Liaison: Act as the principal liaison and communication conduit between the Assistant Secretary of Child Welfare, the IT department, PMO, and the System Integrator Vendor. Ensuring a seamless flow of information and alignment of strategic intentions across all entities and advocacy and execution for programmatic goals.

7. Training and Development Develop a comprehensive training strategy that addresses the needs of different user groups within the organization. Design and develop training materials, including manuals, online courses, and workshops. Conduct training sessions and evaluate their effectiveness to ensure users are competent in using the new system

Additional Duties

8. Address challenges with creative problem-solving while maintaining strict adherence to timelines, budgetary constraints, and quality standards.

9. Form a strong relationship with the business stakeholders and IT, partnering to resolve project related issues, provides project status updates and escalates issues and concerns appropriately.

10. Ability to work with the Office of Child and Family Well-Being stakeholders and articulate the “To-Be” of the future CCWIS system.

11. Evaluate current process and work within the team to create innovative approaches with IT, PMO and SI vendor to solve complex needs and problems.

12. Drive team execution and communications with management and stakeholders

13. Manage project issues and risks and escalate as necessary

14. Manage project conflicts, challenges, and dynamic business requirements to keep the project running efficiently

15. Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks

16. Able to do postmortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity

17. Implement and support programmatic principles, rules, and processes

18. Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow of project work

Job Type: Contract

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

License/Certification:

• PMP (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Tallahassee, FL 32303 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Tallahassee, FL 32303: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person