Design Project Coordinator
Leidos
Senior Project Manager
Ascend Technologies
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
AzurePMPServiceNow
About the role
- Responsible to oversee and guide project teams through project initiation to project close, ensuring the teams follow organizational best practices.
- Serve as the overall project owner, guiding and motivating project teams.
- Facilitate meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminate team impediments.
- Own overall schedule, budget, and deliverables for assigned project(s).
- Use waterfall and/or agile methodologies and practices to plan, manage and deliver technology solutions, as defined by the project scope/SOW.
- Schedule and facilitate project events and ceremonies.
- Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.
- Liaison with stakeholders such as clients, end users, vendors and project personnel regarding defining and documenting project requirements and processes.
- Monitor and report project progress, issues and risk to internal and external executive sponsors and stakeholders.
- Assist in owning and executing change management processes.
- Guide project teams through go-live and warranty phases.
- Provide ongoing and post-project evaluations/retrospectives.
- Ensure knowledge transfer or project to appropriate support teams.
- Partner with various IT management teams to ensure appropriate prioritization and resource allocation of projects.
- Own prioritization processes for assigned projects against overall enterprise backlog to ensure teams are focused on highest value work.
- Train, mentor and support other project managers and project teams to follow PMO best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience required, degree in Information Technology, Communications or related field preferred.
- 4+ years of experience managing IT projects using Waterfall, Agile and/or hybrid methodologies.
- Proven expertise in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban or Lean) and familiarity with traditional project management practices (Waterfall, PMBOK).
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- The ability to communicate clearly and concisely in oral, written, and presentation formats is essential.
- Aptitude to accept complex assignments, analyze and prioritize problems, execute tasks, motivate others and have some fun!
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and/or PMP Certification preferred.
- Experience with ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, and/or other project management tools.
Benefits
- At Ascend Technologies we firmly believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are not only fundamental values but also powerful drivers of innovation, growth, and success.
- We are committed to fostering an environment where every individual feels valued, respected, and empowered.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
project managementAgile methodologiesWaterfall methodologyrisk mitigationchange managementproject schedulingbudget managementdeliverable managementrequirements documentationpost-project evaluation
Soft skills
communication skillsinterpersonal skillsleadershipmotivationproblem analysisprioritizationteam facilitationmentoringtrainingdecision-making
Certifications
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)PMP Certification
