Agile Project Manager

Job Family:

IT Project Management (Digital)

Travel Required:

None

Clearance Required:

Ability to Obtain Public Trust

Job Description Summary
Responsible for all aspects of managing Agile projects: organizes project teams, assigns individual responsibilities, develops project schedules, and determines resource requirements. Identifies and resolves obstacles to completing projects on time and to budget.

Level Description
- Subject matter expert of a specific area within the organization
- Manages large projects with limited guidance or oversight, delegates work to lower-level employees and reviews others' work products
- Introduces and applies fresh ideas and creative solutions to stimulate discussion and thinking in both internal and external situations

Organization Impact & Communication
- Requires ability to participate in cross- functional discussions on projects and processes
- Achieves operational targets with major impact on results
- Facilitates discussions with external clients or stakeholders to ensure alignment on concepts and approaches
- Demonstrates strong knowledge of project management
- Influences others inside and outside the organization to justify practices, policies, and procedures
- Introduces and applies fresh ideas and creative solutions to stimulate discussion and thinking in both internal and external situations

Innovation & Complexity
- Regularly employs ingenuity and creativity to develop new technical solutions to solve difficult and moderately complex problems
- Relies on extensive experience to independently develop approaches to solutions within job area
- May lead others to solve complex problems; uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgement and identify innovative solutions
- Responsible for making moderate to significant improvements of systems or products to enhance performance of program/project.
- Identifies and incorporates moderate improvements to systems or processes to enhance project performance in job area

Leadership & Talent Management
- Contributes to or manages large projects with limited guidance or oversight, delegates work to lower-level employees and reviews others' work product
- Responsible for providing guidance, coaching, and training to other employees across the Company within technical area of expertise. Typically, responsible for leading large, complex project initiatives of strategic importance to the organization, involving large cross-functional teams (without direct reporting relationships)

Knowledge & Experience
- Requires strong knowledge on project management policies and procedures

- Experience leading Agile software development projects is a must

- Requires experience working on government contracts
- Requires a University Degree and minimum 8-10 years of prior relevant experience; some roles may require graduate-level education Master’s or Doctorate degree (Relevant experience may be substituted for formal education or advanced degree)

What You Will Do:

We are actively searching for a high performing Agile Project Manager for our GrantSolutions contract. The Agile Project Manager will be responsible for the planning, coordination, and completion of a large agile software development project. This project manager will manage multiple workstreams, overseeing all aspects of the project and the software application development life cycle, including UX/UI, and roll-out activities (UAT, training, etc.). Sets schedules and deadlines, assigns tasks and responsibilities, allocates resources, and monitors and summarizes progress of the project in an iterative development environment. Builds and maintains effective working relationships with team members, other teams and organizations, contractors, vendors, and others. Prepares project status reports for upper management and maintains risk registers and project financials. Reviews project milestones and products and is responsible for all deliverables. Implements organization standards and best practices in project execution, and ensures projects are clearly documented and communicated to stakeholders.

• Project Manager will be responsible for the coordination and day to day management of a large-scale agile software program. Working to support 2+ scrum teams along with other project leads. Provides leadership and serves as the main POC for all project activities.
• Manages multiple workstreams and oversees all aspects of the project and the agile software application development life cycle.
• Manages the project budget, establishing monthly cost projections and EAC and ETC estimates.
• Prepares weekly and monthly project status reports for upper management and Federal oversight.
• Reviews project milestones and ensure