General Program Management Office (PMO)

​Duties

General Program Management Office (PMO) is accountable for providing central expertise, support, and control for an

organization's projects/programs including:

·         Developing program/project management best practices/templates and providing training/mentoring to project teams

·         Monitoring dependencies across multiple inter-related projects

·         Gathering and reporting consolidated project status and financial information to leadership

·         In some organizations may serve as a central governing body to review/audit adherence to methodologies, budgets, and timing

·         In some organizations may provide full staffing and management for the organization's major projects/programs Level: A Manager (M3) manages experienced professionals who exercise latitude and independence in assignments. Responsibilities typically include:

·         Policy and strategy implementation for short-term results (1 year or less).

·         Problems faced are difficult to moderately complex.

·         Influences others outside of own job area regarding policies, practices and procedures. Typical Title: Project/Program Management Office (PMO) Manager

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Skills:

·         Proven track record of delivering complex software programmes in Agile environment with global cross-functional teams, on time and within budget.

·         Significant experience working in a technical environment with cross functional teams

·         A strong, communication, analytical and problem-solving skills to identify how one issue can impact on another and put in place the required interventions through support or from own knowledge base

·         Significant experience of project management in the software development environments

·         Ability to communicate with individuals from both technical and non-technical backgrounds and present content in a meaningful, clear and concise way

·         Ability to coach teams to be self-organising and consistent velocity

·         Experienced with Agile Frameworks - (SCRUM, Kanban, SAFE…) and Agile planning tools such as Jira and Confluence

·         Formal project management certification an advantage (Agile PSM, SAFe, PMP, Prince2)

·         Understanding of Software Development processes and continuous delivery