The PMO Lead oversees the full project management life cycle and software development life cycle
for the implementation of highly complex, large-scale, strategic IT and business initiatives. Additional
responsibilities include:
Implementing established policies, system monitors and controls to ensure the successful
management and reporting of all corporate initiatives in the program
Supervising and leading the program and project staff to oversee the impacts and
inter dependencies between programs and working to ensure initiatives meet the goals and
objectives of the executive leadership team
Providing both verbal and written communications regarding project status, risks and issues
Responsibilities:
Governance: ensuring that communication to different stakeholders (including senior
management) & decisions are taken by the right people, based on the right information
presented. The governance role can also include audit or peer reviews, developing project
and program structures and ensuring accountability.
Transparency: providing information with a single source of the truth. Information should be
relevant and accurate to support effective decision-making by stakeholders (including senior
management).
Re usability: stopping project teams from reinventing the wheel by being a central point for
lessons learned templates and best practice.
Delivery support: making it easy for project teams to do their jobs by reducing bureaucracy,
providing training, mentoring and quality assurance.
Traceability: providing the function for managing documentation, project history and
organizational knowledge.
Skills
Gathering data about project progress and producing reports
Developing standards and processes
Encouraging (or enforcing where necessary) the use of those standards and processes
Managing resources for projects
Delivering training and mentoring project team members
Managing dependencies across multiple projects
Tracking benefits
Reporting on financial information such as return on investment.
Superior verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills with both technical and
non-technical audiences.
Experience in working with agile lifecycle and/or tracking and process management tools,
e.g. JIRA
Identify and analyze opportunities and make tactical/strategic recommendations
Hands on project management approach that includes a proven track record of
Keyskills: PMO Project Management