Portfolio Manager (Remote from anywhere in CO).
State of Colorado
Full time
Other
United States
Hiring from: United States
Department Information
Together, we innovate for a stronger Colorado
The work of employees at the Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) is challenging and diverse because the needs of agencies, customers and Coloradans constantly evolve. But our focus never changes: improve the lives of all Coloradans through innovation and collaboration. We're building one of the nation's leading government IT organizations by reimagining how we support agencies, building first-of-their-kind applications, and creating an inclusive, collaborative culture, together. Join us in the important work of providing equitable access to services.
Watch this video to learn about how OIT is thinking differently!
Description Of Job
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please review your application to ensure completion. For the most equitable applicant experience, OIT’s hiring team considers only the contents of your application to review your qualifications. Please do not include any attachments (such as resume or cover letter) with your application as these items are not used by OIT’s hiring team.
Are you a strategic team leader with excellent communication abilities? As our new IT Portfolio Manager, you will be the authority for an assigned service portfolio, offering your expert opinion on project portfolio process, progress, risks, and challenges. You will develop implementation plans, analyze portfolio performance, and recommend changes to achieve goals and proactively identify opportunities for improvement, all in support of OIT's strategic plan.
Some Of Your Important Job Duties Will Include
Managing relationships across OIT, customers, and vendors to develop a thorough understanding of core business functions.
Representing the Enterprise PMO to agency leaders, explaining and advocating for EPMO processes.
Providing leadership for your team, mentoring them on tasks and helping them remove barriers inhibiting progress.
Leading project intake efforts for assigned portfolios.
Understanding the project portfolio and its associated progress, risks, and challenges.
Analyzing key trends and issues from complex detailed information.
Budgeting and resource management.
Ensuring processes, projects and service requests are executed as designed.
Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions Of Employment & Appeal Rights
A wide salary range is posted for this position and any job offer is based upon a salary analysis to comply with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The salary analysis considers relevant experience, education, certifications, and state seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. While all offers are compliant with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, there is no guarantee an offer will be at the top of the posted range based on the salary analysis.
Minimum Qualifications
This is a skills-based job announcement. The required minimum qualifications and/or education (if substituting for the proven experience, knowledge, and skills), are as follows:
A minimum of eight (8) years experience that includes a combination of IT and/or IT project management for large, complex projects and/or project portfolio management, and demonstrated strong relationship building and management skills, negotiation, collaboration, communication, and organizational skills.
Experience Must Also Include
Using a variety of development methodologies and/or a technical discipline
Understanding an organization's enterprise solutions and offerings.
Project/program/portfolio resource planning, reporting, prioritization and budgeting.
Leading projects and programs within and outside IT and with external providers.
Understanding of IT service and project management, including metrics and tracking.
Substitutions
Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.
Training or Certification related to the work assigned to the position will be assigned credit towards substitution for experience and/or education, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.
If the minimum qualifications include a degree requirement, additional appropriate paid or unpaid experience will substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.
Preferred Qualifications
Prior Portfolio Manager experience.
Relevant IT certifications (e.g., PMP, Scrum, ITIL, ADKAR, Lean, Six Sigma, etc.).
Experience as the principal team leader representing your organization to customer sponsors.
Working comfortably in situations of ambiguity.
Knowledge of software development methodologies, system implementation and integration and/or a technical discipline.
Effective working in a matrix organization.
Ability to manage multiple projects with geographically dispersed teams simultaneously.
Public sector experience.
Conditions Of Employment
OIT employees must comply with any screening procedures in place at state entity locations where they might be required to perform work.
A pre-employment background check will be conducted as part of the selection process.
Positions supporting some agencies such as the Department of Corrections and the Department of Public Safety will also require a pre-employment drug test.
This position may require travel within the specified geographic area, and to locations across the state as needed.
Supplemental Information
If this posting indicates “remote from anywhere in CO” in the title, periodic reporting to the primary state work location designated for the position is required. All remote work must be performed in Colorado.
While candidates from out of state will be considered for this role, the candidate selected for the position must relocate and reside in Colorado on the first day of their new position. A reasonable timeframe for relocation will be established on an individual basis, while considering business needs, and determining a start date.
We know it's important to support each other, and that means having a healthy balance of work and personal time. Visit our benefits to learn more about some of our great offerings that allow us all to have fulfilling lives.
Visit our How to Apply webpage to learn more about our application process and what to expect after you apply.
The State of Colorado strives to create a Colorado for All by building and maintaining workplaces that value and respect all Coloradans through a commitment to equal opportunity and hiring based on merit and fitness. The State is resolute in non-discriminatory practices in everything we do, including hiring, employment, and advancement opportunities.
The Governor's Office of Information Technology is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADA Coordinator at [email protected] or call (303) 764-7900.
This posting may be used to fill multiple vacancies based upon business need.
The Governor's Office of Information Technology does NOT offer sponsored Visas for employment purposes.
Together, we innovate for a stronger Colorado
The work of employees at the Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) is challenging and diverse because the needs of agencies, customers and Coloradans constantly evolve. But our focus never changes: improve the lives of all Coloradans through innovation and collaboration. We're building one of the nation's leading government IT organizations by reimagining how we support agencies, building first-of-their-kind applications, and creating an inclusive, collaborative culture, together. Join us in the important work of providing equitable access to services.
Watch this video to learn about how OIT is thinking differently!
Description Of Job
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please review your application to ensure completion. For the most equitable applicant experience, OIT’s hiring team considers only the contents of your application to review your qualifications. Please do not include any attachments (such as resume or cover letter) with your application as these items are not used by OIT’s hiring team.
Are you a strategic team leader with excellent communication abilities? As our new IT Portfolio Manager, you will be the authority for an assigned service portfolio, offering your expert opinion on project portfolio process, progress, risks, and challenges. You will develop implementation plans, analyze portfolio performance, and recommend changes to achieve goals and proactively identify opportunities for improvement, all in support of OIT's strategic plan.
Some Of Your Important Job Duties Will Include
Managing relationships across OIT, customers, and vendors to develop a thorough understanding of core business functions.
Representing the Enterprise PMO to agency leaders, explaining and advocating for EPMO processes.
Providing leadership for your team, mentoring them on tasks and helping them remove barriers inhibiting progress.
Leading project intake efforts for assigned portfolios.
Understanding the project portfolio and its associated progress, risks, and challenges.
Analyzing key trends and issues from complex detailed information.
Budgeting and resource management.
Ensuring processes, projects and service requests are executed as designed.
Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions Of Employment & Appeal Rights
A wide salary range is posted for this position and any job offer is based upon a salary analysis to comply with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The salary analysis considers relevant experience, education, certifications, and state seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. While all offers are compliant with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, there is no guarantee an offer will be at the top of the posted range based on the salary analysis.
Minimum Qualifications
This is a skills-based job announcement. The required minimum qualifications and/or education (if substituting for the proven experience, knowledge, and skills), are as follows:
A minimum of eight (8) years experience that includes a combination of IT and/or IT project management for large, complex projects and/or project portfolio management, and demonstrated strong relationship building and management skills, negotiation, collaboration, communication, and organizational skills.
Experience Must Also Include
Using a variety of development methodologies and/or a technical discipline
Understanding an organization's enterprise solutions and offerings.
Project/program/portfolio resource planning, reporting, prioritization and budgeting.
Leading projects and programs within and outside IT and with external providers.
Understanding of IT service and project management, including metrics and tracking.
Substitutions
Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.
Training or Certification related to the work assigned to the position will be assigned credit towards substitution for experience and/or education, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.
If the minimum qualifications include a degree requirement, additional appropriate paid or unpaid experience will substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.
Preferred Qualifications
Prior Portfolio Manager experience.
Relevant IT certifications (e.g., PMP, Scrum, ITIL, ADKAR, Lean, Six Sigma, etc.).
Experience as the principal team leader representing your organization to customer sponsors.
Working comfortably in situations of ambiguity.
Knowledge of software development methodologies, system implementation and integration and/or a technical discipline.
Effective working in a matrix organization.
Ability to manage multiple projects with geographically dispersed teams simultaneously.
Public sector experience.
Conditions Of Employment
OIT employees must comply with any screening procedures in place at state entity locations where they might be required to perform work.
A pre-employment background check will be conducted as part of the selection process.
Positions supporting some agencies such as the Department of Corrections and the Department of Public Safety will also require a pre-employment drug test.
This position may require travel within the specified geographic area, and to locations across the state as needed.
Supplemental Information
If this posting indicates “remote from anywhere in CO” in the title, periodic reporting to the primary state work location designated for the position is required. All remote work must be performed in Colorado.
While candidates from out of state will be considered for this role, the candidate selected for the position must relocate and reside in Colorado on the first day of their new position. A reasonable timeframe for relocation will be established on an individual basis, while considering business needs, and determining a start date.
We know it's important to support each other, and that means having a healthy balance of work and personal time. Visit our benefits to learn more about some of our great offerings that allow us all to have fulfilling lives.
Visit our How to Apply webpage to learn more about our application process and what to expect after you apply.
The State of Colorado strives to create a Colorado for All by building and maintaining workplaces that value and respect all Coloradans through a commitment to equal opportunity and hiring based on merit and fitness. The State is resolute in non-discriminatory practices in everything we do, including hiring, employment, and advancement opportunities.
The Governor's Office of Information Technology is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADA Coordinator at [email protected] or call (303) 764-7900.
This posting may be used to fill multiple vacancies based upon business need.
The Governor's Office of Information Technology does NOT offer sponsored Visas for employment purposes.
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