"Director, Agile PMO"

Director, Agile PMO

Company: University of Maryland Global Campus

Job Location: Adelphi, 20783

Category: IT Manager/Director

Type: Full-Time

Summary: This role holds both leadership and management roles in the APMO. The Director Agile PMO is responsible for various methods and practices around provisioning capabilities into the business, as well as improving the overall agile maturity across the organization. As part of this undertaking this role will help define and build Agile strategies, and then work with all levels of the organization to affect positive, sustainable change.

As a natural servant leader, this role will develop and support a learning organization model through mentorship and coaching, encouraging training and continuous improvement throughout. This role embodies and enables an agile culture, fosters Communities of Practice, provides community engagement opportunities, and offers career development guidance.

Experience in metric-driven delivery, and lean methodologies, will be required to build the best-in-class delivery assurance required at the enterprise level. As an arm of the overall governance function, this role is responsible for supporting and enabling the organization's portfolios, products, programs and structured work efforts.

The Director Agile PMO, through collaboration with peers, will drive the execution of strategy. Supporting the implementation and management of productivity tools to measurably improve performance. As a leader within UMGC this role is not static and will integrate constantly changing dynamics into an evolving enterprise methodology and delivery practice. This role must combine strong delivery and lean process experience, and a proven track record of transforming large scale delivery through traditional methodologies, agile and beyond.

This role ensures that the work of the APMO adds value, is relevant to the strategy of the organization, and meets the goals set for the APMO by executive management. They will balance agility with the need for formal risk management approaches through formal processes, whilst applying empirical continuous improvement to meet the control needs of our business and global regulatory partners.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Accountable for the APMO team with two primary focus areas; Enterprise Performance, and Lean Governance
• Leads the identification and development of APMO roles, team configuration and recruitment appropriate to deliver the agreed-upon APMO goals and objectives
• Evolve and continually improve the interdependencies between business models and operating practices, integrating waterfall, iterative, and agile delivery models into one, cohesive delivery strategy to best meet the evolving business needs.
• Accountable for the consistency of UMGC's operating methodology and associated processes
• Engage the organization to ensure continual feedback and identify emerging methodology and alignment needs
• Assess enterprise or portfolio performance, using metrics and reporting. Supporting the organizations progression towards a value based operating model.
• Assures strategic alignment through prioritization, resource capacity management, key result tracking and program management to achieve strategic vision
• Tracks and communicates key organization metrics
• Escalates and tracks organization impediments, removing them where possible without causing detriment
• Ensure alignment to the cross-departmental roadmaps, create a collective plan to manage dependencies
• Ensure that the organization has right level of visibility to current and upcoming work
• Participate in Portfolio and Program Management process improvement
• Develops and leads the Agile Practice, putting in place the systems, processes and ways of working to sustain a high performing team, where skill development, increased agility, collaboration and improved ways of working are key to success.
• Collaborate with leadership team to create and maintain the right mind-set and culture to embed continuous improvement.

Skills:

• Program management skills and experience, plus significant knowledge of productivity tools with evidence of practical application
• Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to develop and communicate the strategic vision, and inspire and motivate staff.
• A distinctive blend of business, IT, financial and communication skills.
• Effective influencing and negotiation skills in an environment where resources are often not in direct control of this role.
• Excellent analytical, strategic conceptual thinking, strategic planning and execution skills.
• Deep understanding of current and emerging technologies and how other enterprises are employing them to drive digital business, and how they may be applied to the enterprise to drive digital business.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain IT concepts and technologies to business leaders, and business concepts to the PMO staff.
• A strong facilitator with experience engaging teams in a collaborative, distributed environment
• Listen and supports people in problem identification and decision-making, creating an environment of mutual influence
• Empathizes with others and encourages the personal development of teams

Education & Experience Requirements:

Experience:

• 12+ years of experience in IT with a demonstrated track record of delivering business value (experience in EdTech preferred)
• 5+ years of Agile or Product Leadership responsibilities
• 5+ years of experience in leading diverse teams
• Experience with one or more agile or lean methodologies (Lean, Scrum, Kanban, Devops, SAFe)

Preferred Experience Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree

All submissions should include a cover letter and resume.