Job Description
Job Description
Senior Project Manager
This is a remote position.
Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.
Work on things that matter
Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology.
Built for a remote life
Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.
Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture
Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.
The Veterans Affairs business unit helps transform the VA into a modern digital services organization where Veteran outcomes are at the center of every effort. We partner with the VA to design and deliver seamless user experiences for Veterans, their families and caregivers, and VA employees. By applying better practices in service design, product management, and technology, we enable the VA to increase the use, quality, and reliability of services and decrease the time Veterans spend waiting for outcomes.
Primary Responsibilities:
As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for collaborating with program or business unit leadership in shaping the technical direction of the program and managing customer relationships. A Senior Project Manager is a people manager, leader and mentor that effectively manages team members in support of delivery success. You will have advanced project management skills, with the ability to successfully lead through direct reports, and effectively communicate and execute against program and organizational objectives. A Senior Project Manager must exhibit strong communication skills, with the ability to lead a program in order to meet revenue goals, while ensuring contractual compliance. Primary expectations of a Senior Project Manager include:
- Exhibits advanced knowledge of the project/program’s business purpose and the ability to use sound judgment to make decisions
- Exhibits advanced knowledge of fundamental project management processes, methodologies and tools and techniques, with the ability to adapt them to the organization
- Exhibits strong influential skills to translate customer vision and drive project activities to successful outcomes
- Ability to advise customers on strategic vision and direction; demonstrates innovative mindset
- Progressive ability to manage contractual obligations and oversee and manage output of sub contracting partners
- Progressive ability to coordinate project activities and ensure they are compliant, completed on time, and within budget
- Ability to think strategically when recognizing issues and conflicts, problem solves solutions and turns barriers into opportunities
- Coordinates with Project Managers (if applicable) and Program Manager to communicate information effectively to a variety of internal and external stakeholders
- Progressive ability to negotiate outcomes and agreements that benefit the project and company
- Identifies and drives organic and new growth opportunities
- Communicates and proactively identities risks, and implements mitigations, with guidance from the Program Manager
- Adheres to ISO and CMMI quality standards and ability to ensure project adherence
- Strong organizational and time-management skills
- Ability to earn trust and respect from team members, and influence decisions that need to be made to make the project successful create and build team culture
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Experienced with planning, programming, budgeting, and resourcing
- Responsible for hiring, performance management, timecard reviews, PTO management and team development
- Will be hands on delivering the technical scope to VA.
- Will be responsible for internal delivery: forecasts, budgets, contract management/invoicing approvals, etc. with oversight from a Program Director
- Will do heavy external stakeholder management
- Responsible for internal reporting (ownership of financial/contractual performance, etc.)
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's and 5+ years of experience
- Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
- Experience delivering technical projects directly
- Experience driving a product roadmap
- Organizational skills
- 3 years of experience managing technology service delivery projects
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior experience with Agile project management methodology
- Experience with project management software tools
- Prior government or government contracting experience is strongly preferred
- Project Management Professional (PMP) and/or ITIL certification strongly preferred
- Agile certification is strongly preferred (PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), AgilePM Foundation, ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP), Certified Scrum Master, SAFe Agilist, etc.)
To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit:https://adhocteam.us/join
Benefits:
- Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible PTO
- 401K with employer match
- Paid parental leave after one year of service
- Employee Assistance Program
Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.
In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $110,000-120,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.
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