Project Manager (Passive Hiring)

Are you an excellent organizer and communicator who thrives in dynamic environments? Do you excel at leading teams to achieve extraordinary results while shaping company culture and processes? We are looking for a Project Manager with a strong balance of Agile Project Management and Quality Control expertise to lead innovative projects, foster team collaboration, and deliver impactful results. If you're ready to make a difference and grow with a forward-thinking company, we want you on our team!

Role Overview: The Project Manager will focus on two key areas: Agile Project Management (40%) and Quality Controls (30%), with an emphasis on Supervisory and Mentoring (30%) to support and grow teams. You’ll be responsible for driving results through clear communication, effective planning, and managing change, all while fostering collaboration and ensuring high standards of quality.

Key Responsibilities:

Quality Controls (30%):

• Risk Management: Proactively identify and mitigate risks to ensure project success.
• Facilitation: Lead meetings, manage status reporting, and coordinate milestone reviews.
• Client & Stakeholder Management: Coordinate with clients and data leadership to move innovative and transformation efforts forward.
• Scheduling & Reporting: Analyze project hours, monitor burns, and maintain scheduling.
• Creative Risk Mitigation: Facilitate the lifecycle of risk mitigation and triage, making necessary adjustments to the project plan.

Agile Project Management (40%):

• Agile Ceremonies: Manage and lead key Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, reviews, and demos.
• Stakeholder Communication: Ensure clear project objectives and value propositions with both the team and clients.
• Agile Tool Management: Oversee the management of Agile tools (e.g., JIRA) to track tasks, issues, and risks.
• Facilitation & Action Tracking: Lead meetings efficiently, rapidly translate discussions into action items, and assign owners and dates for completion.
• Documentation Management: Maintain project documents in Google Workspace or O365/SharePoint.

Supervisory & Mentoring (30%):

• Staff Management: Balance coordination of technical staff while enabling senior management and executives.
• Conflict Resolution: Resolve interpersonal and project conflicts to maintain team harmony and productivity.
• Team Engagement: Invest in staff development, support individual goals aligned with motivators, and encourage active team engagement.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in Agile Project Management, specifically as a Scrum Master in software development.
• 2 years of experience in non-Scrum Project Management.
• Technical proficiency with JIRA, Google Workspace, or MS Office 365.
• Preferred: PMP/PMI-ACP certification (If not certified, sponsorship for the first year will be provided).
• Experience managing a distributed team (10+ members), preferably in large government or enterprise projects.

Job Goal and Milestones:

• First 30 Days: Get familiar with the existing contract, establish Agile and Quality Controls, and meet key project players and stakeholders.
• First 60 Days: Implement Quality Controls, manage the overall communication plan, and lead the Agile lifecycle (sprint planning, scrums, QA, retrospectives).
• First 90 Days: Conduct quarterly reviews, assist in backlog maintenance, and support solutions architects and software engineers.

Key Leadership and Management Competencies:

• Client & Team Relationships: Cultivate strong relationships with clients and team members, demonstrating empathy, tact, and the ability to navigate difficult situations.
• Feedback & Goal Setting: Provide and receive constructive feedback professionally, set clear personal goals, and demonstrate initiative and commitment to timely task completion.
• Strong Communication: Ability to communicate effectively with diverse audiences, making clear and compelling presentations while listening attentively to others.
• Adaptability: Capable of rapidly switching between different subjects and communication styles depending on the audience and context.