EPMO Enterprise Portfolio Manager- Unit D (Senior Public Service Administrator, Opt. 3)

Are you looking for a rewarding career with an organization that values their staff? The Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) is seeking to hire qualified candidates with the opportunity to work in a dynamic, creative thinking, problem solving environment. This position serves as the EPMO Enterprise Portfolio Manager- Unit D for the Enterprise Project Management Office. In this position, you will be appraising, planning, and redesigning enterprise business control, resource management, service delivery/support, and service reporting to identify opportunities for improvement through the application of business process engineering principles and practices. In addition, you will serve as an EPMO Product Owner and full-line supervisor managing, planning, coordinating, reviewing, directing, and aligning both short-term and long-term portfolio management strategies and processes.

If you possess these knowledges, skills, abilities, and experience, we invite you to apply today to join the DoIT team!

As a State of Illinois employee, you receive a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Competitive Group Insurance benefits including health, life, dental and vision plans.
• Flexible work schedules (when available and dependent upon position).
• 10 -25 days of paid vacation time annually (10 days for first year of state employment).
• 12 days of paid sick time annually which carry over year to year.
• 3 paid personal business days per year.
• 13-14 paid holidays per year dependent on election years.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Pension plan through the State Employees Retirement System.
• Deferred Compensation Program – voluntary supplemental retirement plan.
• Optional pre-tax programs -Medical Care Assistance Plan (MCAP) & Dependent Care Assistant Plan (DCAP).
• Tuition Reimbursement Program and Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program eligibility.

For more information regarding State of Illinois Benefits follow this link: https://www2.illinois.gov/cms/benefits/Pages/default.aspx

Essential Functions

• Subject to management approval, serves as the Enterprise Portfolio Manager of Unit D for the Department of Innovation & Technology’s (DoIT) Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO), appraising, planning, and redesigning enterprise business control, resource management, service delivery/support, and reporting in alignment with business value priorities, available resources, and the strategic goals of information technology investments.
• Directs, coordinates, and reviews the activities of IT Project teams by reviewing, modifying, and implementing existing EPMO objectives, managing, planning, and aligning both short-term and long-term portfolio management strategies and processes needed to support the approved and funded business plans of DoIT and its customer agencies.
• Serves as an EPMO Product Owner, managing and prioritizing product backlog, including backlog planning and refining working sessions and guides product development and scrum teams in implementing a product’s vision and roadmap.
• Serves as full line supervisor.
• Researches, appraises, and makes recommendations to management toward the acquisition, development, and maintenance of process related practices, training, and engineering tools or products.
• Conducts and leads process-centric orientation sessions with DoIT teams and agency customers to promote enterprise-wide adoption of and compliance with DoIT/business process engineering sanctioned architecture and practice.
• Keeps abreast of new developments in the information technology, business process engineering, service reporting, and management fields, including maintaining and improving analytical, design, facilitation, and technical skills through attending in-house educational offerings, vendor delivered training, and involvement in professional societies and user groups.
• Performs all other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of four (4) years of college with coursework in management information systems, information technology, computer science, or a directly related Information Technology field.
• Requires prior experience equivalent to four (4) years of progressively responsible administrative experience in a public or private business Information Technology organization…