Role: Program Manager, Governance Forum
Objective: The PMI Atlanta Governance Forum provides an opportunity for project managers to learn about governance and advanced topics, including program and portfolio management, in a small group setting of similar minded professionals. This is an ideal forum to learn of best practices in governance, as well as to increase your business acumen for becoming a stronger, more valuable project manager.
Responsibilities:
• Support PMI Atlanta objective of regular monthly forums within the local business community
• Identify key areas of interest for the intended audience
• Secure regular scheduled sponsorship for event hosting
• Maintain a schedule of events with topics and speakers aligned with audience needs
• Provide a knowledge management source for governance-related best practices
• Provide annual metrics of planned vs. actuals for events (attendance, costs, survey feedback, etc…)
• Act as a conduit to help connect business professionals with industry-standard solutions or best-practices
Qualifications:
• 7+ years of technical or business project management experience, managing large IT initiatives and using established PM and software development methodologies.
• PMP or other project management certification desired.
• Demonstrated experience in the use PMI-based project or program management methodologies.
• Previous experience with various types of SDLCs, including waterfall, agile and iterative.
• Mentoring and consulting experience a plus.
• Demonstrated expertise in project management concepts, including project control, planning estimating, financial management, resource management, change management, issue management, risk management, vendor management and quality assurance.
• Working knowledge of project management best practices, benchmarking techniques, maturity modeling and other concepts in process assessment and improvement.
• Prior experience with project management methodology design and management.
• Prior experience with organizational change management
Please email forums@pmiatlanta.org if you are interested.