Job Details

Job Title: Project Manager 3 (IT) - Knowledge and Employee Development Analyst

Job Number: 11927

Location: Vancouver, WA- hybrud - onsite 2 days per week.

Overtime: 5%

Travel: Up to 5% local travel

Length: 5 years

MUST be US Citizen to be eligible to apply for Federal Background Check

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SUMMARY

This contract Project Manager 3 position will provide project management support and assistance to the Operational Technology Services Internal Business Operations Management organization of Operational Technology Services. This project manager will, along with key managerial stakeholders, project managers, subject matter experts, and compliance staff, facilitate the efforts in the development and execution of Operational Technology strategy. Operational Technology Services Internal Business Operations Management is responsible for providing Operational technology support services including Strategy & Program Planning & Delivery, Financial & Resource Management, Procurement Management, Process Management & Service Delivery Maturity, and Reliability Standards Owner reporting to the Internal Operations Manager

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide project management expertise and support and facilitate corporate project or projects providing expert guidance on the PMI-based project management methodology
• Facilitate and assist corporate management to plan, initiate, and implement various projects as defined in the Operational Technology Strategic Plan.
• Organize, coordinate, and facilitate the work of project team(s) and serve as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects, which includes plan project stages and assess business implications for each stage.
• Monitor progress of assigned projects to track timelines, milestones, deadlines, standards, and targets, alerting appropriate corporate manager / personnel of any obstacles / potential delays to project timelines, targets, or success; provide corrective action recommendations.
• Forecast and recommend / request appropriate project resources to fulfill project needs; resource requests must be submitted to, coordinated with, and provided by appropriate corporate Performance Managers.
• Plan and coordinate activities for designated project(s) to verify that goals or objectives of the project are accomplished within the prescribed time frame and funding parameters.
• Obtain appropriate authorization for any potential changes to project cost, schedule, or performance; alert those with a need to know (manager, COR, Procurement, etc.).
• Draft project plans, resource strategies, and develop funding estimates required to advance each defined effort
• Facilitate project meetings between a variety of departments and disciplines.
• Provide recommendations regarding assessment approach and deliverables.
• Coordinate the creation and documentation of revised processes, standards, and roles and responsibilities.
• Maintain consistent communication with the project sponsor, performance managers, and clients on the progress of the project versus the plan.
• Communicate regularly with executive sponsors, key stakeholders, strategic partners, and Tier II managers across the organization
• Address and navigate politically sensitive issues in a collaborative and professional manner
• Provide background information, technical input, options, and recommendations for project decisions
• Issue project status reports on a regular basis.
• Collaborate and work with project sponsors and corporate performance managers to remove obstacles impacting timely project completion.
• Draft a final project report, including project “lessons-learned”
• Anticipate and identify potential areas of risk and obtain guidance from appropriate corporate manager
• Track, monitor, and facilitate resolution of issues and risks identified within the projects. Maintain issue, risk, and/or action logs.
• Develop, draft and recommend contingency plans to minimize / eliminate risks on an ongoing basis for review and acceptance by appropriate corporate manager / personnel.
• Facilitate and/or support Written and Verbal Sponsor and Stakeholder Communication, Project Team Coordination, including milestone management and communication of deliverables.
• Monitor issues and risks identified within the project as well as integrated dependencies and the issues and risk associated with those assumptions.
• Facilitate and/or support the following deliverables: Scope Definition and Management; Business Requirements and Needs Analysis from various stakeholder perspectives; Process and System Design requirements; Gap Analysis from the “as is” to the “to be” state; Implement Organizational Design and Change Management requirements; Implementation Planning; Integration Architecture Design; and End User Training.
• Manage the successful transition of a project or program of projects to another project manager including any training, documentation, or meeting coordination required to bring the new PM fully up to speed
• Coordinate and assist corporate management with transitions of identified project resources as needed.

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Employee Learning and Development

• Leads employee training (instructional design), talent development models, that supports desired organizational performance, culture, engagement and business capabilities.
• Introduces talent development and training approaches and best practices that align with and support the division's delivery of products and services.
• Coordinates and helps create the initial framework for instructional design and monitors the instructional process.
• Creates and delivers instruction via multiple training modalities, maintains and updates live, online, or recorded instructions, training material and other technical documents
• Conducts learning evaluation methods to measure the impact of employee learning and development.
• Organizes performance diagnostics and design interventions to address improvements to employee knowledge, skills and abilities.

Business Process Management

• Facilitates and partners with other SMEs to grow and maintain business process management capabilities that assist the organization in growing and optimizing product and service delivery.
• Creates and uses business process management templates and documents that provide leaders, supervisors, and process owners with policies, process documentation, user manuals, reference manuals, roles and responsibility matrices, and user-based scenarios.
• Runs functional and cross functional working sessions to analyze and document/map current state processes and value stream.
• Collects and develops documentation of user needs, business rules, functionality and other requirements prior to developing or modifying processes and procedures using observations, and interviews with individuals and groups.
• Performs analytical tasks related to current and future operational workflows including requirements definition, validation, maintenance and supporting documentation

Knowledge Management

• Facilitates organizational knowledge identification, capture, organization, storage/accessibility and analysis and updates.
• Performs knowledge identification and capture, works with SMEs or passive information sources to derive and construct critical information, roles, workflows, SLAs related to current delivery of products and services.
• Performs documentation lifecycle management tasks and the management of information libraries.

REQUIREMENTS

Education & Experience:

• A bachelor's degree in business administration, computer science, information technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline is preferred.
• 10 years of experience is required with an applicable bachelor's degree.
• 14 years of direct work experience is required without a degree or a non-applicable degree.

Required Technical Skills & Experience

• Demonstrated project management experience with business services capabilities projects using industry standard methods and tools for managing schedules, dependencies, resources, funding, and developing technical specifications and project plans.
• Experience successfully coordinating or running multiple projects simultaneously as a program.
• Intermediate level experience with Microsoft Project, Visio, and SharePoint Server environments

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience in demand/resource planning and Strategy
• Project and program management experience within an Information Technology or Operational Technology environment

Pre-Employment Requirement

All employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of our pre-employment screening that may include drug testing, background/criminal check, and if applicable, must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

APR Staffing is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

About APR Staffing

APR Staffing was born from the merger of two well-respected technical staffing firms in Portland. ieSolutions and Data Resource Group. Both companies have recently been award winners for the Portland Business Journal's Fastest-Growing Private Companies. The two firms, now as APR Staffing, make for one of the fastest-growing and most-respected professional and technical staffing companies in Oregon and Southwest Washington.

Collaborating with our customers, we augment their workforce with technical and administrative professionals. xywuqvp We provide only high-caliber, professional-grade resources throughout the Pacific Northwest.