Job Description
Senior Project Manager
Bethesda ,MD
Fulltime
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills
- Undergraduate degree, equivalent experience, or certification
- 7+ years' information technology experience including:
- 4+ years of Agile Project Management experience using Scrum, Kanban and SAFe methodologies
- 4+ years creating and delivering project communications, including presentations and infographics.
- 4+ years in managing large cross-functional program communications
- Strong visual design and storytelling portfolio (PowerPoint, infographics, etc.)
- Demonstrated knowledge of Organization Change Management (OCM) practices and processes
- Strong knowledge of ITAM governance and processes
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to effectively engage a wide range of audiences including executives, business stakeholders, and other IT teams, across multiple channels.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver results under difficult conditions, particularly when faced with complexity and ambiguity.
- Proven ability to lead and work with diverse cross-functional teams, both technical and non-technical teams.
- Experience establishing and managing initiatives, epics, and underlying stories, tasks, etc. in Jira
- Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings and workshops at multiple levels of an organization.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and take initiative, proactively identifying needs and driving projects forward with minimal supervision.
Preferred
- Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) or PMI's Agile Certified Professional (ACP)
- SAFe certified SAFe Agilist, SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Release Train Engineer, or SAFe Product Manager/Product Owner
- Asset Management certification IAM or equivalent
- Experience in working under regulatory and compliance programs
- Experience in a leadership role in managing multiple workstreams within large programs
- Strong visual design and storytelling portfolio (PowerPoint, infographics, etc.)
- Expertise in creating high-impact presentations tailored for executive leadership, including the ability to design and deliver compelling PowerPoint decks and one-pagers.
- Ability to define organizational change management strategies
- Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques
- Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology
- Thrives in a highly collaborative, matrixed, complex, fast paced environment
CORE WORK ACTIVITIES
Stakeholder Management
- Supports team members, stakeholders and leaders with diverse styles, abilities, motivations, and/or cultural perspectives; utilizes differences to drive innovation, engagement and enhance results.
- Communicate and champion customer experience considerations to business and global technology partners.
- Builds relationships with teams to understand their practices, motivators, and detractors.
Strategic Communication
- Meet with stakeholders to understand the key message, objectives, target audience, and delivery requirements for presentations or one-pagers.
- Elicit relevant data, information, and insights about initiatives and changes to include in communications, ensuring the content is accurate, and reflects our strategic priorities.
- Translate business objectives and technical initiatives into clear, compelling
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Full time