Description & Requirements
Maximus is seeking a Director, Enterprise Program Management Office (EPMO) to support complex projects, business operations and client initiatives. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership and project management skills, experience with complex technical projects, and the ability to collaborate across teams for timely, high-quality delivery. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and excel at managing cross-functional projects, we encourage you to apply. The position effectively interfaces with IT leadership and other line-of-business stakeholders regularly to maintain good client relations and resolve communication or delivery issues. In this role, you will work across technology, Operations, and IT groups for transparent delivery.
This is a remote position.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Review RFP or project request information to determine the scope of the project, and which resource teams will be needed to support the project. LOE estimations will need to be provided to determine budget and scheduling priority of projects.
- Assignment of projects to Project Managers based on skills, capacity and schedule requirements.
- Serve as the central point of contact and primary interface for all project escalations from project managers and business stakeholders.
- Establish client and business relationships and manage expectations of project sponsors.
- Perform all project management functions including work breakdown, scheduling, tracking of against the defined milestones and budget.
- Collaborate with other IT PMs on inter-dependent projects as well as program managers responsible for delivering the overall enterprise strategy to the organization.
- Review trends and identify opportunities for process improvement or cross-training of project managers.
- Ensure the project management process meets MAXIMUS standards and procedures.
- Perform other duties as assigned by leadership .
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum 10 years’ experience working as a project manager or program manager.
- Working knowledge of Project Management tools: MS Project, SmartSheet, Jira, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, OneNote.
- Experience delivering complex projects in a medium to large size organization.
- Experience directly managing direct and indirect resources.
- Previous experience in implementing project management processes and standards.
- Must be able to manage many complex tasks simultaneously.
- Excellent attention to detail, good analytical skills, good problem-solving skills, must be self-driven and capable of managing others.
- Excellent oral and written communication and customer service skills working with all levels of the organization.
- Ability to firmly drive the project managers and business stakeholders in the same direction, while working to reduce tensions between the various matrixed resource organizations.
- Ability to work well independently.
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to deal with constant change.