Director, Epmo

Who We Are:

The Atlanta Community Food Bank is working to end hunger in our community with the food, people, and big ideas needed so that no one worries about where their next meal is coming from. Since 1979, we’ve provided food for a growing network of nonprofit partners – including food pantries, community kitchens, childcare centers, night shelters, and senior centers. We currently serve more than 700 partners in 29 counties across metro Atlanta and north Georgia.

Where You’ll Work:

IT Department

About the Role:

The Director, ePMO is responsible for various methods and practices around improving the overall Portfolio, Program, and Project Management (PPM) maturity across the organization while acting as PMO subject matter expert/advisor to the organization. To include tracking and reporting the conformance to plans and expectations of organizational initiatives. As part of this undertaking, the Director, ePMO will help define and build agile strategies and then work with all levels of the organization to affect positive and sustainable change.

As a natural servant leader, the Director, ePMO will develop and support a learning organization model through mentorship and coaching, encouraging training and continuous improvement throughout. This person 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 model.

Through collaboration with peers, the Director, ePMO will drive the execution of the organization’s strategy. In addition, this role will be called to support the implementation and management of productivity tools to measurably improve performance. As a leader within ACFB, this role is not static and will integrate constantly changing dynamics into an evolving enterprise methodology and delivery practice. This person ensures that the work of the ePMO adds value, is relevant to the strategy of the organization, and meets the goals set for the ePMO by executive management.

What You’ll Do:

Job Functions

• Facilitates among stakeholders and organizational leadership a consensus around the mission and vision of the ePMO organization to foster a project-management-oriented culture and mindset

• Engages senior leadership and business partners to define the ePMO mission, goals, and operating model

• Leads the development of ePMO roles, team configuration, and recruitment appropriate to deliver the agreed-upon goals and objectives

• Leads the identification and implementation of project management processes, methods, tools, guidelines, and standards in order to establish a stable framework that supports all project teams and stakeholders to improve the probability of successful project delivery

• Facilitates the agreed-upon process that develops plans and prioritization by leadership and governance

• Defines, manages, and directs the needed end-to-end ePMO work effort, which includes leveraging best practices and techniques in identifying, quantifying, and tracking the realization of expected benefits defined in business cases

• Provides ongoing coaching and mentoring to ePMO staff and project managers in ACFB in a matrix environment

• Builds and maintains relationships with senior leadership and key ePMO stakeholders, and acts as a trusted advisor

• Regularly reviews and evaluates opportunities to improve the project management best practices to achieve higher maturity in PPM

• Act as a change agent to enable the successful implementation of tools and process conversions

• Monitor and maintain software license and maintenance agreements with 3rd party vendors

• Develop inputs for budgeting, and obtain approval as needed from higher authorities

Leadership and Administration

• Encourage team interaction, and appreciate team collaboration

Our Inclusive Hiring Process:

At the Atlanta Community Food Bank, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We understand that skills can be gained through a variety of experiences – educational, work and lived. Towards that end, our Inclusive Hiring process is grounded in a skills based hiring approach. That means, we are looking for resumes that demonstrate key transferrable skills that can be applied to our job roles to support both our mission and culture.

Key Competencies we look for in All our Food Bankers are:

• Encourage team interaction, and appreciate team collaboration

• Customer Focus

• Decision Making

• Accountability

• The Ability to Navigate Change

What You’ll Need: Skills and Experience your resume should demonstrate:

• Demonstrated experience in leading diverse teams

• Experience in a multi-application system environment

• Demonstrated experience in portfolio management or large-scale projects

• Demonstrated experience in managing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) conversion

• Hands-on experience with virtual computing environments and cloud technologies

• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to analyze, interpret and tell the business story of portfolio management

• Demonstrated experience in full project management life cycle

• Ability to communicate effectively with teams and clients in an energetic and fast-paced environment

• Consistent documentation of processes, procedures, and communication

• Ability to manage change and effectively pass information up, down, and across the organization for smoother execution

Even Better if you Have:

• Certified ScrumMaster

• Belted Six Sigma Practitioner

• Experience with Agile methodologies

• PMI-approved certification (PMP, RMP, SP) or equivalent

This role may be a fit for you if you have the:

• You are a relationship builder who can work with a diverse group of stakeholders

• Are a champion of change - able to drive, adapt, and support others through change

• You thrive in a customer-focused and collaborative work environment

And You'll Love this Position if You Are:

• You have an entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy coming up with creative ideas and developing action plans to drive goal execution and goal attainment

• Are a strong, effective coach and motivator and have proven success in developing team members

• You want to work in a positive environment where differences are valued

There may be some Physical Demands:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• You want to work in a positive environment where differences are valued

• Employee is routinely required to lift 25 lbs.

• Expected travel time for this position is up to 10% per year

Expectation:

We are committed to providing employees with an environment of mutual respect in which the values of Diversity, Safety, Continuous Improvement, and Hard work are supported and encouraged. We work diligently to engender fairness, responsibility, trustworthiness, and teamwork to advance our mission: To fight hunger by engaging, educating, and empowering our community.?

Final Thoughts:

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At the Atlanta Community Food Bank, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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