Senior Project Manager

We’re looking for amazing people! Come join Virginia Housing as a Senior Project Manager! This important role will manage multiple projects under the Enterprise Project Management Office (ePMO) by planning, directing, and coordinating activities to ensure goals and objectives are accomplished within timeframe and funding parameters.

Our ideal Senior Project Manager will have exceptional organizational and proactive planning skills throughout the full project lifecycle, ensures communication is thorough, consistent, and accounts for variations to reach each audience, and is highly focused on collaboration to find solutions to keep momentum on project timelines. We are seeking a Project Manager who works collaboratively to support ePMO work efforts and team members, highly proactive, resourceful, and takes the initiative on managing scope, timeline, resources, and budget; takes ownership of the success or failure of a project and tasks, and has critical observation skills to extract actionable tasks and assignments; works with integrity and presents all ePMO work honestly and ethically.

Responsibilities will include:

Project Management

• Plan, monitor, and report on progress across Enterprise projects and efforts as assigned.

• Manage Enterprise program and project budgets under the ePMO.

• Manage use and assignment of ePMO resources across a program's projects, including managing and working directly with external vendors, ensuring accountability for contractual deliverables.

• Project and vendor contract management; ensuring contract deliverables are met.

• Lead core project teams while monitoring scope, schedule, & cost across finance, mortgage, and loan related projects.

• Act as collaborative partner with Virginia Housing stakeholders and other ePMO team members.

• Facilitate project meetings on planned and agreed upon cadence ensuring agendas are actionable, and outputs (decisions, actions items, risks, and/or issues) are documented and distributed.

• Provide accurate and timely project status reports.

• Support executive sponsor or designee at governance meetings

• Adhere to and champion existing methodologies and governance.

• Manage and communicate risks, issues, changes and action items. Maintain program/project risk register.

• Assist in coordination of customer acceptance testing and/or training.

• Close projects, including managing the handover of project deliverables and holding project reviews/lessons learned.

Project Delivery

• Manage escalation appropriately under manager guidance, quantify impact for risks and issues.

• As a center of excellence, the ePMO’s expectations focus on high quality work products and effort.

• Utilize diplomacy to logically manage conflict, diffusing negativity where applicable. Facilitate collaboration to gain common ground and confer with ePMO manager for advisement when necessary.

• PMs are expected to manage project budget and ensure Virginia Housing resources are used efficiently.

Stakeholder Relations

• Develop project/stakeholder specific project delivery approach with collaboration from ePMO manager and team to ensure palatability, partnership and acceptance.

• Apply versatility to both work assigned and approach to ensure deliverables are met; evaluate tools across methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, etc.) to determine best fit for efficiency and ease of use by project sponsors and team

Qualified candidates must possess several years, preferably 7 or more years, advanced knowledge and progressive experience to perform as a Senior Project Manager. Both Waterfall and Agile methodology experience required. Several years of previous experience working with and managing vendors as resources and contracts; experience in client-facing, customer oriented roles is required. Experience facilitating and conducting training within an organization. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent working experience. Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite is required. Moderate or greater proficiency in Microsoft Project is preferred.

Certifications preferred or considered a plus: PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) or Program Management Professional (PgMP), Agile or equivalent designation.

Virginia Housing is one of the nation’s premier housing finance organizations. Our mission is to help Virginians attain quality, affordable housing, which we accomplish through our public-private partnerships.

We are focused on employee engagement and committed to a healthy and diverse workforce. We offer on-site conveniences such as a cafeteria, fitness center, and free parking. Educational opportunities to help your advancement are available through classroom and online programs.

Applications and resumes are accepted online only at: http://www.virginiahousing.com/careers.

This position will remain open until filled.

Background and credit checks will be performed as a condition of employment.

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