Full Job Description
***MUST have an active Secret Clearance (or higher) No exceptions***
- Lead, coordinate, plan, manage and support agency approved projects with high visibility and customer impact.
- Create and detail project plans, Microsoft Project schedules, identify risks, and meet with key stakeholders at a minimum weekly to ensure project deliverables are met;
- Support the SDLC, and programmatic documentation required by agency.
- Collaborate with network operations and application development teams.
- Assist with project management activities, planning and end user communications.
- Look for areas to create new and update existing policies and procedures to ensure consistent work quality.
- Maintain excellent communication, collaboration and working relationships with all Tier teams to ensure all teams are aware of current efforts.
- Attend daily/ weekly project status meetings and attend the weekly change control board meetings, technical review board meetings, and other project and operational issue meetings.
- Document detailed, concise and clear meeting agendas, meeting outcomes and action items.
- Develop and maintain an actions and issues log – requires daily updates.
- Have a weekly and monthly meeting to brief the COR on project status as well as attend meetings at Headquarters in Washington DC
- Work with the System Owner, senior management, COR, and necessary parties to adhere to the required documentation support. Documentation to include but not limited to: SDLC and stage gates, IRB, ATO related documents.
- Support agency projects including department share data migrations, on-prem server migrations to Azure, network expansion, new implementations, etc.
- Collaborate with vendor professional services and product vendors.
- Responsible for disseminating information throughout agency management and agency technical teams in a timely manner
Required Technical Skills:
- Active Secret clearance
- Master’s degree in relevant field
- 14+ years of relevant experience
- Evidence of creating, baselining and managing to Microsoft Project schedules, action, and risk registers
- Ability to take complex, integrated and inter-dependent projects to develop a schedule and manage daily/weekly engineers and technical resources.
- Leading technical design and technical working sessions to progress high visibility projects.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in following areas:
- Managing large IT projects with multi-vendors and across teams
- Developing detailed project schedules, identifying/mitigating risks,
- PMP certification preferred
Environment
- Great benefits: Paid time off, flexible work schedule, teleworking allowed, medical/dental/vision plan, 401k; and more
- Tuition assistance for continuing or career-related education
- Our cultural focus is on people and results – not bureaucracy
- Ample opportunity for career growth – we promote from within
- Leadership takes a constructive interest in every team member’s success
- Work/Life Balance and flexible hours
- Be part of a close-knit team that works and plays together and helps one another succeed
- You will not be micromanaged: plan, prioritize, schedule and be accountable for your own tasks
- Casual workplace
- Open-door policy with all management
Salary Range: $150,000 – $175,000
**Salary is commensurate with education and experience**