Portfolio Manager

Overview:

You will be responsible for aligning strategic objectives with the backlog refinement process, organizing and facilitating project/program activities, and coordinating information gathering and sharing between internal and external stakeholders.

What You'll Do:

• Support Program Managers with planning, customer support and process management
• Participate in developing strategic goals and plans, and ultimately creating and managing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) across the Portfolio.
• Develop and socialize dashboards, roadmaps, and reports to track the progress of goals, strategies, and/or OKRs.
• Lead and facilitate general meetings and knowledge sharing activities.
• Assist with stakeholder analysis, research activities, and drafting written communications.
• Work collaboratively to foster and build team relationships among our client, Program/Policy partners, third party entities/contractors and project team members.
• Report to the client on project status and communicate any delays or changes in project plans, while maintaining project documentation on a weekly or monthly basis.
• Actively identify, manage, communicate, and mitigate risks and issues.
• Provide guidance/recommendation to optimize systems, procedures, and processes and develop solutions to make improvements.
• Serve as strategic partner with CMS and drive programs toward overall strategic objectives.
• Participate in Agile/Scaled Agile ceremonies, as necessary.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• At least 10 years of professional experience in project management.
• Federal government agency work experience.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Self-motivated with extreme attention to detail and ability to adhere to tight deadlines.
• Excellent verbal communication, writing, and presentation skills required.
• CMS experience.

Abilities:

• Ability to combine project management principles with Agile development requirements.
• Strong listening skills with demonstrated ability to ask effective questions, understand customer priorities and anticipate customer needs.
• Outstanding organizational and planning abilities.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience using the Atlassian tools suite (Jira and Confluence)
• Experience developing and managing OKRs.
• Project Management and/or Agile certification.

Salary Range:

• Salary range is $140,000-165,000/year. The salary range for this position reflects a variety of factors that influence compensation decisions, including skills, experience, training, certifications, and organizational needs.