Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is seeking a Project Manager with Portfolio experience to support the planning and governance of IT project portfolios for the State of Kansas. The role involves analyzing project performance, optimizing resource allocation, and facilitating decision-making to align with strategic goals.
Responsibilities
- Perform portfolio analysis to assist with evaluating project proposals for resource impact, strategic alignment, and Return on Investment
- Support the development and maintenance of portfolio dashboards, reports, and KPIs
- Monitor portfolio health, including budget variance, schedule adherence, and risk exposure
- Facilitate the portfolio governance process, including intake, planning, and prioritization
- Maintain portfolio management tools, databases, and documentation standards
- Contribute to continuous improvement of PPM processes, templates, and best practices
- Timely collection and/or validation of status information from HS EBIT leadership, project managers, business analysts, and functional IT managers to support this essential activity
- Perform cost-benefit, resource capacity forecasting, and scenario analysis to support capacity planning, resource allocation, and prioritization
- Identify interdependencies, conflicts, and bottlenecks across projects
- Prepare executive-level portfolio reports and visualizations
- Develop and maintain IT manager-level reports
- Communicate portfolio status, changes, and priorities to relevant teams
- Track project lifecycle milestones and ensure compliance with portfolio governance checkpoints
- Document decisions, action items, and changes from portfolio review meetings
- Administer PPM tools and software
- Ensure data integrity for project financials, timelines, and resource assignments
- Develop and maintain standard templates for charters, status reports, and scorecards
- Assist in improving and maturing portfolio management methodologies and metrics
- Recommend improvements to increase transparency, throughput, and value realization
Skills
- Three - Five years' experience with IT related project management
- Moderate Excel skills including pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, and data modeling
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or similar visualization tools is a plus
- Understanding of budgeting, cost tracking, ROI/NPV/IRR calculations, and variance analysis
- Working knowledge of PMBOK, Agile, and waterfall methodologies
- Ability to analyze capacity planning, resource allocation, and utilization data across multiple projects
- Ability to connect individual project outcomes to broader organizational goals and strategy
- Identify, quantify, and report on portfolio-level risks, dependencies, and constraints
- Review and critique project proposals for completeness, feasibility, and business value
- Document workflows and recommend optimizations to portfolio governance and intake processes
- Maintain accurate, consistent data across systems and ensure reporting reliability
- Communicate effectively with executives, PMs, finance, and business unit leads
- Translate complex data into clear, concise dashboards and narratives for senior leadership
- Support portfolio review meetings, document decisions, and drive follow-ups
- Work across functions to gather information, resolve conflicts, and align priorities
- Draft status updates, procedures, and governance documentation with clarity
- A bachelor's degree or higher is preferred
- State of Kansas Project Management, CAPM, PMP, or PMI-PBA
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