Strategic Agile Project Manager

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The Strategic Project Manager (PM) is responsible for planning, leading, organizing, and motivating agile and hybrid project teams with a focus on achieving business results.

Job Requirements:

• Team Building: Promote empowerment of the team, ensure that each team member is fully engaged in the project and making a meaningful contribution, and encourage a sustainable pace with high-levels of quality for the team
• Project Planning and Management: Define project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value; organize and lead project status and working meetings; prepare and distribute progress reports; manage risks and issues; correct deviations from plans; and perform delivery planning and operational readiness for assigned projects.
• Product Owner Support: Support the Product Owner in managing customer expectations for project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications, and help with an effective system of project governance
• Project Team Management: Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, remove roadblocks to their work; leverage organizational resources to improve capacity for project work; and mentoring and developing team members; facilitate the efficient use of resources across multiple projects and monitor trends to ensure use aligns with strategic goal.
• Process Management and Improvement: Champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Project Management

Skills Required

• Excellent oral and written communications skills and experience interacting at all levels including the executive level
• Ability to provide leadership to business analysts, program managers, coordinators, and collaborate with customers and develop strategies and solutions of high business value
• Microsoft Project, Visio, and all Office Tools
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of business need with the ability to establish/maintain high levels of customer trust and confidence
• Solid understanding of and demonstrated experience in using appropriate tools:
• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands
• Ability to use critical thinking to make complex decisions
• Project Management tools
• Ability to work creatively and analytically to solve business problems and propose solutions
• Jira/Confluence, Workfront, Monday.com or equivalent
• Effective interpersonal skills including the ability to manage conflict, listening, collaborating, and team building
• Ability to see the big picture and quickly comprehend the impact of new technologies, systems and/or teams on changes to business processes
• Full transparency and communication of project progress, risks, and vendor performance

Required Credentials and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher
• At least 5 years of medium to large-scale project experience in a project management or similar role
• At least 5 years of strong experience with project or program planning, resource planning, work plan development, and project management processes

Preferred Credentials and Experience:

• Experience working within, or assisting, health and human services agencies, specifically Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
• SAFe, Lean or Kaizen certification(s)
• Demonstrated prior experience with SCRUM/Agile methodologies with enterprise-level application development projects. SPC, PMI-ACP, CSM, or equivalent.
• Prosci certified
• Organizational change management
• PMP certification