[Hiring] IT Project Manager, Business Analyst @Girl Scouts of the USA

Role Description

The IT Project Manager, Business Analyst plays a vital role in the Technology Project Management Organization (PMO), ensuring that the team is working effectively to deliver quality solutions that help the organization build resilient, best-in-class digital platforms, products and infrastructure. This position requires the planning and execution of development work while connecting and providing transparency to our business partners. The Technology Project Manager will manage Tech-related workstreams, facilitate and track dependencies between cross-functional teams to ensure the right features are delivered on time, in scope, and on budget and provide a consolidated view (dashboard) of all project deliverables.

They partner with the business to gather and prioritize business requirements, advise on Tech-related solutions, translate business and customer requirements into functional and technical requirements, shape project success criteria around Tech-related workstreams and solutions, and ensure that key stakeholder satisfaction and business goals are met. They foster relationships with internal and external stakeholders to align at every touchpoint throughout the project lifecycle.

While this role is remote, candidates must be able to work Eastern Time zone hours.

Essential Responsibilities

• Plan and manage multiple assigned projects to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope.
• 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 manner.
• 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 project success metrics and roadmap, develop implementation plans and milestones, and measure against metrics.
• Effectively prioritize project deliverables and direct Organizational change management within your program domain.
• Establish and implement project communication plans, providing status updates.
• Collect, analyze, and summarize information and trends as needed to prepare project status reports.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Competencies

• 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.
• Experience creating and maintaining technical architecture documentation.
• Strong Leadership abilities and 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.
• 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 various stakeholders.
• The ability to dynamically adapt to shifts in priorities and projects in an ambiguous environment.
• Self-motivated with a strong desire to initiate and drive projects; ability to work independently and in a team.
• 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.
• Preferred experience with agile, design thinking, strategy frameworks in application development and technical architecture.
• Able to lead Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Experience managing external vendors and partners.
• Excellent written/verbal communication, presentation, and listening skills.

Required Technical Skills

• 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.

You Need

• 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 Certifications Requirements

• PMP
• Certification in agile (CSM)

SALARY RANGE

$70,000 - $120,000. This represents the present low and high end of the pay range for this position. Actual pay will vary based on various factors, including but not limited to experience.

What We Offer

• Paid Time Off: GSUSA offers 20+ days of paid time off, 2 floating holidays, as well as 9 workplace holidays per year.
• Medical and Behavioral Health Coverage: Plan options with individual and family coverage which includes wellness, hospitalization, and fertility assistance.
• Dental and vision coverage.
• Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs).
• 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.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

This job is remote.

POSITION TYPE / EXPECTED HOURS OF WORK

This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.

AAP/EEO Statement

GSUSA is an equal employment opportunity employer.