Program & Portfolio Manager II

Job Title:

Program & Portfolio Manager II

Location:

Atlanta, Georgia
Regular/Temporary:
Regular
Full/Part Time:
Full-Time
Job

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship.

Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security.

Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.

2. We strive for excellence.

3. We thrive on diversity.

4. We celebrate collaboration.

5. We champion innovation.

6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.

7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.

8. We act ethically.

9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Strengthen the Institute processes for major enterprise investments by facilitating and coordinating gating and decision processes. Establish and promote an enterprise level portfolio management approach with a focus on specific investment types (e.g. technology investments). Oversee and support project execution through continual coordination of program/portfolio plans, data analysis, reporting and education. This position will interact on a regular basis with: faculty, staff, students, and vendors.

This position typically will advise and counsel: faculty, staff and vendors. This position may supervise: administrative support and analyst level team members.

Job Duty 1 -
Manage enterprise level programs and portfolios through the design and facilitation of Institute wide governance processes.

Job Duty 2 -
Guide and support project and program managers in the initiation, planning, execution, and closing of projects within defined portfolios.

Job Duty 3 -
Advise and mentor organizational leaders on the creation and launch of portfolio management functions across the Institute.

Job Duty 4 -
Provide portfolio management oversight to include creation and tracking of metrics, project status, prioritization and ranking, and roadmaps.

Job Duty 5 -
Facilitate the development of business cases for potential projects. Work with the proposing unit leader, the Institute budget office and procurement to perform total cost of ownership analysis data analysis, cost benefit analysis, and financial modeling.

Job Duty 6 -
Design, develop and maintain tools and processes for portfolio management and enterprise level tracking. Partner with business services to measure adherence to established governance processes.

Job Duty 7 -
Assist with the creation and delivery of materials related to project/program management education and mentoring.

Job Duty 8 -
Perform other duties as assigned

Bachelor's Degree in…