Posting Title

Project Manager - Cybersecurity Research Center

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Location

CO - Golden

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Position Type

Regular

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Hours Per Week

40

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Job Description

We are hiring in our Cybersecurity Research Center. Staff in NREL’s Cybersecurity Research Center work to secure the energy transformation by leading cutting-edge, impactful cybersecurity research that enables scalable and quantifiable risk reduction for future energy systems. The Cybersecurity Center Project Manager (PM) will primarily be responsible for the following:

• Manage projects requiring the development and management of a project timelines
• Direct project team members through matrixed management; and be accountable for the development and administration of project budgets
• Given the cross-cutting nature of the research projects, the role also focuses on working across multiple groups within the Center, and teams across NREL
• Perform complex financial and resource planning/forecasting duties in coordination with other Center project managers and leadership to ensure projects across the center are funded and resourced appropriately
• Codifying center-wide business processes and standardizing best practices for reporting and record keeping across all projects and teams within the center
• The PM will be assigned as an NREL point-of-contact for tasks or projects including Center financial and resource planning.
• Responsibilities will require some interactions with DOE and/or other project managers and external stakeholders
• Developing scope of work with partners/DOE, developing an execution plan and assisting senior staff with project execution
• May also be required to support quarterly/annual deliverables including project reports, presentations, workshop summaries, etc.
• Assist the Group Managers and senior research staff with organizing workshops, seminars/webinars, and stakeholder outreach activities.
• Serve to support the integration of cross-project elements including but not limited to Finance, Procurement, Funds-in, Risk Management, Project and Business Management, and Client/Sponsor teams.
• Researches, assembles, and evaluates project information or data and recommends process improvement and solutions to project issues.

The PM will need to understand complex research concepts and translate them into growth forecasting, making sure new work is strategically aligned with the growth direction, that staff are available to complete incoming work, and that NREL is making wise use of limited internal investments in the Center. Those responsibilities include:

• Supporting principal investigators (PIs) and senior staff with project execution including developing schedules, milestones, budgets, identifying and plan