Project Manager

Job Responsibilities:

• Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management. Reviews status of projects and budgets, manages schedules, and prepares status reports. Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives. Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, clients and other stakeholders.
• This position is dedicated to Project Management across SSD, with a specific focus on Cybersecurity and Operational, and will report to the Manager, Strategy and Project Management.
• Responsible for executing multiple Cybersecurity high visibility, high risk and complex SSD projects in collaboration with other Departments, and Divisions.
• Create and maintain project charter, project plans, risk and issue log, and communications plan. PM will be responsible for scope, schedule, and budget management.
• Drive the project team for pro-active risk management.
• Provides project status reporting to stakeholders, SSD management and Laboratory senior management.
• Provides direction to the vertical teams in regards to project feasibility, development of business cases, establishment of priorities, monitoring progress, continual evaluation of project status and resource utilization from project inception to post-deployment closeout.
• Driving project close-out with a clear operationalization plan will be included in PM’s core responsibilities.
• Develop success measures (qualitative and quantitate) for projects to measure the effectiveness and outcomes
• Provide reporting at all levels for the assigned project, including core team, SSD leadership team and the executive team within Business Transformation Office (BTO) and Director’s office.
• Build Continuous Improvement model with SSD Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Information Services Department (ISD) and other teams.
• The SSD PM will build relationships, execute, manage and negotiate in a matrixed environment by following SPMO (Strategic Project Management Office) practices and project management methodology (Waterfall, Agile etc.)

Skills:

• 5-7 years of experience as a project manager
• Experience creating and maintaining project plans that communicate tasks, milestone dates, and status. The successful candidate will also be responsible for the development of project documents such as project charter, communications plan, requirements metrics, and similar documents.
• 2-3 years of experience working in one of these: cybersecurity, DoD or similar government industry
• Minimum 2 years of experience working in a Project Management Office
• Proficiency in O365, Microsoft Project Plan (.mpp) Office
• Strong skills in excel and power point for meaningful reporting and executive presentations
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, written and verbal communication skills.
• Unix shell or perl scripting capability
• PMP certification
• Change Management experience
• Business analysis experience

Education/Experience:

• Candidate should expect to be in the office 50% of the time (2-3 days/wk depending on project needs)
• Interim is sufficient to start
• Interview process will be an initial zoom interview, second round will be a larger audience - preferably in person but zoom will be ok if needed.