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Job Description:
This Manager position will report to the DHHS CIO and is the Senior Leader overseeing the DHHS Project and Portfolio Management Office (PPMO) ensuring strategic alignment of projects with agency and division goals. This role leads the development, implementation, and management of DHHS enterprise project governance, project management standards, and portfolio performance reporting. The PPMO Manager plays a key role in promoting transparency, fiscal accountability, and successful delivery of IT projects that support the mission of delivering high-quality health and human services.
Salary for this position begins $110,000. Anticipated starting range around $125,000 - $150,000 commensurate with education and experience, if approved.
Job Duties:
- Manage and direct all aspects of the DHHS Project and Portfolio Management Office.
- Contribute as a Senior Leader by developing and executing long-range strategic plans and roadmaps, schedules, and priorities on projects according to the agency’s direction and priorities.
- Collaborate with executive leadership, business units, stakeholders, and external partners (vendors, federal agencies) to ensure alignment between technology solutions and business objectives.
- Provide oversight of the agency portfolio, which includes monitoring scope, schedule, budgets, and risks on 40+ projects across all DHHS.
- Ensure the application of project governance frameworks and adherence to standard project management methodologies (e.g., PMI, Agile, hybrid models), policies and best practices.
- Provide leadership and guidance to portfolio managers, project managers and change management specialists that manage a large portfolio of projects, which minimally include scope, project plans, schedule, budget, risks, and performance metrics.
- Coordinate and support IT vendor relationships for projects, monitor conformance to contracts, and ensure the deliverables are met and proper risk is elevated.
- Ensures performance of ongoing projects and initiatives by providing insights and metrics into performance gaps and areas for improvement, as well as impacts to other projects within the agency.
- Oversight on risk assessments for projects, proactively identifying potential issues and creating mitigation strategies to ensure continuity and project success.
- Oversee development and organization of employees and project teams to ensure staff have proper combinations of knowledge and skills.
- Prepare presentations to an Executive Level Project Review Committee including project reports with project performance, return on investment, and resource utilization.
- Performs personnel functions, including hiring, performance evaluation and disciplinary procedures.
Requirements / Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science, information systems, mathematics, engineering or other related field, and two years of experience working with a broad range of technology discipline(s) (e.g., network, infrastructure, coding, systems, or database), and three years of experience supervising activities of professional level information technology staff. Experience can be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis, where two years of this experience will be as a project coordinator, team leader, or staff supervisor.
Preferred Qualifications: 5+ years of progressive experience in Portfolio and Project Management; Demonstrated experience managing multimillion-dollar IT portfolios and mission-critical programs; Experience with Public Sector and Health and Human Services programs is a plus but not required.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Candidates must be service oriented, have strong interpersonal, leadership and analytical skills that include working directly with vendors, stakeholders, state business and technical staff to determine projects have the necessary technical solutions for the business need. Candidates must have strong communication, organization, and planning, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
Knowledge:
- High level knowledge of the Project Lifecycle with emphasis on initiation and execution.
- Deep understanding of portfolio and project management methodologies (e.g., PMBOK, Agile, Waterfall, hybrid); IT governance frameworks, risk management strategies, and best practices.
- High level knowledge of applicable state and federal regulations, including CMS, HIPAA, APD requirements, and IT project oversight frameworks.
- High level knowledge of planning, budgeting, cost-benefit analysis, and financial reporting for IT portfolios and projects.
- Skilled in applying strategic communication and conflict resolution to build consensus, foster collaboration, and influence at all levels of the organization.
- Adept at balancing competing priorities and driving change in a diplomatic, culturally sensitive, and ethically sound manner.
- Understands the business strategic plans and how to align IT or other solutions with business objectives.
- Knowledge of change management strategies for guiding organizations through large IT transformations
- Prepare formal written reports and correspondence and present to executive level staff.
Skills:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical and strategic information to diverse stakeholders, including executives, vendors, and end users.
- Skills developing and implementing portfolio strategies that align IT investments with organizational goals and public policy priorities.
- Skills in organizing, planning, and prioritizing; performing administrative tasks; time management; persuasion; providing consultation and advice to others.
- Skills in change management, risk assessment, and organizational development.
- Strong leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills with the ability to build and retain high-performing project and portfolio teams.
Abilities:
- Ability to lead and mentor professional Portfolio Managers, Project Managers and Specialists.
- Ability to work directly and establish effective working relationships with various levels of business and technical team members.
- Ability to proactively identify, assess, and escalate project and portfolio risks with clarity and urgency, ensuring the right issues reach the right stakeholders at the right time.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and complex stakeholder environments.
- Ability to respond under pressure to demanding workload and timeframes.
- Ability to design, scale, and lead a strategic-level Project and Portfolio Management Office that supports enterprise initiatives across multiple program areas.
- Ability to work collaboratively with diverse program areas, leadership, and policy makers to ensure alignment and support for enterprise initiatives.
- Ability to deliver results under pressure: meet deadlines, manage competing priorities, and lead through ambiguity in high-stakes environments.
- Ability to communicate and provide portfolio and project insights to executive-level reporting.
Benefits
We offer a comprehensive package of pay, benefits, paid time off, retirement and professional development opportunities to help you get the most out of your career and life. Your paycheck is just part of your total compensation.
Equal Opportunity Statement
The State of Nebraska values our teammates as well as a supportive environment that strives to promote diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We recruit, hire, train, and promote in all job classifications and at all levels without regard to race, color, religion, sex. age, national origin, disability, marital status or genetics.
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