PMO Specialist

NexSolv, Inc is looking PMO Specialist for our direct state client, Local resources are preferred.

Duties:

• Work closely with IT Directors to understand project scope.
• Decompose project scope to production and post- production work items.
• Align the project milestones into Agile Epics.
• Ensure estimation of Epics is accurate and consistent across IT verticals.
• Ensure Agile Features are accurately estimated and align appropriately with the corresponding Epics.
• Work closely with the Project Management Office (PMO) to align all the above work items to overall cost and align with available budget.
• Work closely with Risk Management team to understand impacts of open risks on project scope, cost and schedule of implementation.
• Develop detailed and effective reporting templates with the extensive use of KPIs, project performance metrics and scores generated by the Agile Lifecycle Management tool called VersionOne.
• Organize and maintain an active and current repository of project performance and progress reports.
• Write detailed narratives on project status and performance.

Education:

• Bachelor s Degree from an accredited college or university in Business, Information Systems, or other related discipline.

Experience:

• At least 5 years of experience in administration, project management, customer facing assignments, content data or records management or related experience in a related field.
• Strong in Microsoft Suite, including MS Visio.
• Knowledge of project management related documentation, instructions, policies, directives, and procedures.
• Knowledge of agile scrum methodology and/ or Certified Scrum Master, Safe Agilist certification preferred.
• Knowledge of established project management methodology in IT or related domain.
• Knowledge of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in major IT or related projects.
• Experience in producing high-quality documentation using MS Office Suite using industry standard notations and formats.
• Experience with development of high-quality reports and presentations in MS PowerPoint.
• Conversant with creating business process workflows in MS Visio.
• Demonstrated experience with basic data organization, creating tables and charts in MS Excel, and conversant with established data labeling conventions.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering tasks and assignments in complete form and within deadline.
• Excellent communicator, team player, eager to learn new skills and mindful of response times.
• Keen eye for details, and meticulous with copy-editing documents and artifacts.
• CSM certification preferred.