PMI is seeking volunteers to lead the formation and implementation of a new virtual community dedicated to leadership development.  Each volunteer will have a specific role as identified below and collectively serve on the PMI Leadership in Project Management Community of Practice (CoP) Steering Committee. The steering committee is responsible for navigating through and completing the formation process. This committee shall be made up of a group of people who share a concern, or a passion about a topic, and who want to deepen their understanding and knowledge of this area by interacting on an ongoing basis.

As the community develops and the steering committee evolves from managing formation activities to facilitating the creation of a social networking structure, the role and composition of the steering committee will shift from a stewardship group to the Community Council. When the community is official, the amount of time a member can serve on the Community Council is limited to terms.
The Knowledge Management Lead is an individual who ensures the community’s alignment to PMI’s knowledge management processes, including identification, sharing, inclusion, updates, and improvements. The person in this role converts knowledge provided by subject matter experts (SMEs) into resources that are useful and create member value. He or she catalogues this content for future retrieval. A committee to support the Knowledge Management Lead may be created as determined by the community’s business plan.

 

Role Responsibilities:
• Provides leadership in defining knowledge management processes.
• Guides development of the approach to adopt knowledge tools and techniques aligned to PMI’s knowledge management processes, including archiving of outdated material.
• Guides the development of a common vocabulary for members and aligns it to a system for classifying and disseminating (community taxonomy) knowledge.
• Identifies gaps of information that the community needs and defines a plan to shorten or eliminate those gaps for knowledge from within the community.
• Looks for synergies of data, projects, and initiatives across PMI communities.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Possesses subject matter expertise in that community’s domain.
• Possesses a foundation in the principles and design of knowledge management.
• Communicates directly with community members to discover needs to generate solutions.
• Has ability to set a vision, identify the action steps, and motivate others to contribute to community success.
• Instills passion and commitment toward a common goal, building upon an established foundation of trust.
• Is familiar with PMI’s knowledge strategy and make decisions within that context.

 

Deliverable(s)
• Preparation of the business plan for the virtual community
• Launch of the virtual community
• Ongoing management of the virtual community
Culture of Assignment
• The PMI Leadership in Project Management CoP Council will operate virtually most, if not all of the time.  If the community promotes any face-to-face events or if the leadership team members are attending another PMI event, and then it is likely the leadership team may meet in the same location.
Alignment to PMI Strategy
The purpose of the PMI Leadership in Project Management CoP is to provide a critical knowledge generation, knowledge sharing and knowledge application working space to the entire PMI Community in regard to developing and enhancing leadership and excellence in project, program and portfolio management.  The focus of the PMI Leadership in Project Management CoP is to create awareness, provide education, exchange knowledge, offer tools and techniques, enable collaboration and mentoring the advancement of the profession through leadership development.

Volunteer Start and End Dates
• Initial volunteers in these leadership roles will be asked to serve for a one year term with potential renewal for a second year to ensure the virtual community is launched and functioning effectively and efficiently.  Additional terms of service will be considered as the community evolves.

 

Estimated Time Commitment
• The time commitment initially may be several hours per week to get the virtual community launched and then will be likely reduced for the ongoing management of the virtual community.

Requirements
Volunteers serving on the PMI Leadership in Project Management CoP Council are expected to be knowledgeable about project, program, and portfolio management and to have a strong passion for global sustainability.

Volunteers must possess the following additional skills and knowledge:
• Must be PMI members in good standing.
• Have good project, program and/or portfolio management capability.
• Required to adhere to the laws, rules and regulations that govern the conduct of our business and to report any suspected violations in accordance with responsibilities provided in the "PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, Terms of Use and Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality."
• Understand PMI’s organizational structure, including the PMI Strategic Plan and the community’s purpose within those strategic objectives
• Understand and commit to PMI’s objectives and goals around increasing member value and knowledge delivery
• Become familiar with PMI’s annual program plan and budget cycle
• Understand PMI’s brand platform and how the community supports those objectives
• Possess experience in leading teams in a virtual environment demonstrating results and progress toward community goals
• Posses knowledge and understanding of basic nonprofit fiduciary responsibilities, which are PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, Terms of Use, and, Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality
• Create a positive environment for progress through respect of individuals, credibility, and empathy
• Recognize and practice diversity awareness within PMI’s global community of practitioners
• Empower others
• Possess group facilitation skills
• Be able to stimulate and motivate others to share their ideas and thoughts to engage others
• Be familiar and support PMI’s policies and the Virtual Community Guidelines.

The volunteers serving on the Community Council are required to sign PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality Agreements.

Members who are determined to have a conflict of interest and/or pending and imminent litigation and ethics complaints are not eligible to apply for a Virtual Community Council position.

Members can reside and/or work in any part of the world but must be able to fulfill their role using English.  No travel is required although opportunities to travel on behalf of the community may exist in the future in regard to leadership development.

 

How many openings are available? One