PMO Manager

Kish Bank is seeking an experienced Project Management Office (PMO) Manager at our Kish Innovation Center in Reedsville, PA to lead the Project Management Office while personally managing complex, high-impact initiatives. The role combines hands-on project delivery, change leadership, PMO staff development, and direct support to the Chief Information Officer in governing the enterprise project portfolio. The PMO Manager maintains practical systems and processes that improve prioritization, visibility, decision-making, and accountability across the organization.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Project and Change Leadership

• Personally leads multiple cross-functional projects from initiation through closure, managing scope, schedules, resources, budgets, risks, dependencies, communications, and outcomes.
• Builds practical plans, facilitates working sessions, drives decisions, removes obstacles, and holds sponsors and project teams accountable for commitments.
• Provides concise executive reporting and escalates material risks, tradeoffs, resource constraints, and decisions needed.
• Builds stakeholder engagement, communication, readiness, training, adoption, and transition to operational ownership into project delivery.
• Applies predictive, agile, or hybrid methods appropriate to the work while maintaining disciplined, right-sized governance.

Enterprise Portfolio and PMO Management

• Partners with the Chief Information Officer to maintain an enterprise view of strategic initiatives and the project portfolio.
• Owns the enterprise project intake, prioritization, resource planning, and governance process, directing organizational resources toward initiatives that provide the greatest strategic, operational, regulatory, and client value.
• Prepares and facilitates portfolio governance discussions, identifies cross-project conflicts and dependencies, and recommends sequencing, scope, resource, or governance adjustments.
• Coordinates vendors and third-party service providers to support project objectives and delivery, including vendor onboarding activities as needed.
• Promotes practical project management standards, templates, and lessons learned across the organization without creating unnecessary administrative burden.
• Supervises and develops PMO staff through work assignment, coaching, performance feedback, quality review, workload balancing, and professional development.

General Responsibilities

• Delivers responsive service, protects confidential information, and follows applicable organizational policies and controls.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in business, information technology, project management, organizational leadership, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of five years of progressively responsible project management experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives; financial-services or regulated-industry experience is preferred.
• Experience with portfolio governance, prioritization, capacity planning, executive reporting, change management, facilitation, and staff development.
• PMP certification is preferred. Prosci, CCMP, or comparable change-management training or practical experience is also preferred.
• Proficiency with modern project, portfolio, collaboration, reporting, and data-visualization tools.
• KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES
• Strong project management, facilitation, executive communication, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to translate strategy into executable initiatives with clear ownership, sequencing, measures, and accountability.
• Ability to influence across functions, distinguish material issues from routine activity, manage competing priorities, and meet deadlines.
• Commitment to transparency, sound judgment, continuous improvement, and practical processes that improve delivery.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• The job is primarily sedentary office work with moderate standing, walking, reaching, bending, and stooping.
• Requires exertion of 10 to 20 pounds occasionally and less than 10 pounds normally.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.