This position will provide full spectrum program management support services for a project within the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic's Expeditionary Department. This position will directly support NIWC's Integrated Project Team (IPT) in a lead role as scrum master and master scheduler.
Position Responsibilities:- Incumbent, as the scrum master, facilitates recurring Agile meetings to include: Daily stand-ups, sprint planning sessions, sprint status reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Maintain and administer Jira boards, workflows, and reporting dashboards.
- Track sprint metrics, team velocity, burn-down charts, and action items.
- Promote Agile best practices and continuous process improvement.
- Incumbent, as the master scheduler, develops, tracks, reports, and briefs multiple project Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) via MS Project.
- Develop and present routine IMS Roadmap Reports utilizing a variety software (Project, Excel, One Pager).
- Provide as required Schedule Baseline Variance reports and assist the project with recommendations.
- Effectively analyze schedule critical path, schedule conflicts/risk, and resource requirements/constraints.
- Coordinate team data calls, develop draft reports, and ensure Project Lead (PL) approval of weekly and monthly project technical status reports. Tasking to include data collection, routing/approval, CM, and distribution.
• Manage the project calendar to include hosting meetings, developing meeting briefs, capture/distribution of meeting minutes, and tracking meeting Courses of Action (COAs) identified.
- Provide data management support with maintaining the data architecture, storage, and controls of the Project's MS SharePoint database.
- Support the PL to ensure communication and response to ad hoc sponsor driven Request for Information (RFI).
- Coordinate visitor events to include ensuring visitor have meeting agendas, site badging, and hosting location confirmed.
- Support the Project with risk management responsibilities to include risk process development/implementation, risk identification/tracking/mitigation, and risk reporting.
- Provide a significant role in authoring, implementing, and maintaining program/project management process documentation to meet IPT, Division, and PMO requirements.
- Utilize historical reporting, schedule, & risk data, project artifacts, and other relevant data to document lessons learned and advise the project of Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) initiatives.
Personal Qualifications:- Familiarity with agile methodologies and other project management frameworks, and the ability to apply these methodologies to manage communication effectively throughout the project.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate complex information clearly and concisely to stakeholders at all levels.
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, using excellent communication and interpersonal skills to motivate team members, facilitate collaboration, and drive successful outcomes.
- Experience in conducting effective presentations, meetings, and project status updates to stakeholders, including adapting communication style to different audiences.
- Proficient in using communication tools such as email, chat, video conferencing, and project management software to keep stakeholders informed and engaged.
- A strong commitment to transparency, keeping stakeholders informed and up to date on project progress, risks, and issues.
- Proven experience in identifying and evaluating business opportunities and developing and executing strategic plans to launch and grow new ventures.
Position Requirements:- US Citizen.
- Secret Clearance Required for this full-time position.
- Work to be performed onsite (North Charleston SC) for this position.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Organizational Development, Education, Physical Science, or business-related specialty.
- Six (6) years of previous experience, to include: Development of Program Acquisition Documentation, Development of Program Monitoring Approach (i.e., PERT, CPM, EVM, etc.), Data Collection and Analysis, Program Health & Risk Analysis, Development of Cost Estimates, Development of Program Status Reports, and Development & Management of Integrated Master Schedules.
- Knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and DoD procurement policies and procedures.
- Intermediate to advanced skill set in Atlassian Jira, MS Office Suite, MS Project, MS Teams, MS SharePoint, Power Point, and Adobe Acrobat.
Preferred Experience:• Agile Scrum certifications (CSM, SSM, PSM)
• Past Program Management (PM) support experience within federal government industry, Department of War, Department of Navy related to Process Operations Management, Schedule Management, Jira Agile Management, RMF framework, and C4ISR test and integration.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
Position is in North Charleston, SC.Apply at: https://phg.tbe.taleo.net/phg01/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=GATEWAYVENT&cws=42&rid=5839
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