Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Girl Scouts of the USA is a mission-driven organization dedicated to developing girls’ leadership, confidence, and character. The IT Project Manager, Business Analyst will plan and manage technology projects, gather and prioritize business requirements, coordinate cross-functional teams, and ensure deliverables meet budget, schedule, scope, and stakeholder expectations.
Responsibilities
- Work with business and product owners to scope functional and technical requirements, communicate to relevant stakeholders, and work with teams to deliver them in a successful and timely manager. Create executive level frameworks ,current state, future state roadmaps, process flows and documents to take users ‘on the journey’
- Manage intra- and inter-team dependencies, highlight project blockers and risks and work with cross-functional teams to resolve them
- Partner with business owners, internal teams, and stakeholders to define the project success metrics and roadmap, develop implementation plans and milestones, and measure against metrics
- Effectively IT prioritize project deliverables. Direct and be accountable for Organizational change management within your program domain
- Establishe and implement project communication plans, providing status updates. Collects, analyzes, and summarizes information and trends as needed to prepare project status reports
Skills
- While this role is remote, candidates must be able to work Eastern Time zone hours
- Excellent ability to create and contribute to executive level and working frameworks on strategy, status updates and utilize required Project Management Tools. Ability to create process level roadmaps at both a detailed level and executive level
- Excellent ability to create project plans from start defining clear goals, objectives and milestones working with the team in a fast-moving environment. Ability to use fit for purpose Project Management tools from both Waterfall and Agile Project Methodologies
- Experience creating and maintaining technical architecture documentation
- Mindset of no task too small, ready to help, support as needed see and own tasks to completion
- Strong Leadership abilities. Able to use influence management to inspire project team members
- Able to anticipate and remove impediments, provide escalation management and make tradeoffs by balancing business needs with technical constraints
- Ability to oversee planning of projects, programs, and initiatives ensuring consistency and compliance to company processes
- Will build a reputation as a trusted partner who understands the business and collaborates to deliver on commitments and drive business results
- Must be able to work successfully within a milestone-driven environment utilizing standardized project management processes
- Ability to help define and refine working processes in order to maximize efficiency in constantly evolving environments
- Can create, track and allocate budgets used to prioritize programs and projects and manage resourcing for complete end-to-end planning
- Ability to manage the collaboration of the IT PMO with Platform Engineering, Technical Operations, Customer, Applications, Procurement, Finance, Marketing and additional stakeholders. Develop solutions that are fit for purpose and achievable within the budget, scope, and on schedule
- The ability to dynamically adapt to shifts in priorities and projects in an ambiguous environment, resolving contention and solving problems across technology and our business partners
- Self-motivated with a strong desire to initiate and drive projects; ability to work independently and in a team
- The ability to discuss technical issues, limitations, requirements, etc. in a way that is understandable to non-technical users
- Effortless collaborator and expert communicator who can work well across and within cross functional teams
- Experience project managing applications and architecture across a wide variety of platforms such as Customer Applications, Infrastructure, Security, Platform Engineering
- Able to lead Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives
- The ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and work under time pressures
- Experience managing external vendors and partners
- Excellent written/verbal communication, presentation, and listening skills, with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
- Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Wrike, MS Teams and other related project management and collaboration tools
- Competency in PowerPoint or similar presentation software
- Competency in Microsoft Excel or similar software
- Competency in Microsoft Power BI or similar software
- Office 365 or similar suites
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum of five (5) years' work experience, with at least three (3) years of direct project management experience
- Preferred experience with agile, design thinking, strategy frameworks in application development and technical architecture
- PMP
- Certification in agile (CSM)
Benefits
- 20+ days of paid time off
- 2 floating holidays
- 9 workplace holidays per year
- Paid holiday year-end office closure between Christmas and New Year's
- Medical and Behavioral Health Coverage
- Plan options with individual and family coverage which includes wellness, hospitalization, and fertility assistance
- GSUSA partial subsidy of premium costs
- Dental and vision coverage
- Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) including Health, Dependent Care, and Limited FSA for those with Health Savings Accounts
- Company-paid life insurance
- Flexible work arrangements
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- 401(K) with company match
- Sick leave
- Short- and Long-Term Disability for salary continuation
- Health and Wellness Classes and Activities throughout the year
- Remote work
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