Agile Project Manager

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The NC Department of Health and Human Services seeks a contractor resource for the NC FAST (Families Accessing Services through Technology) to serve as Agile project Manager to provide senior level project management for NC FAST projects and products.
Complete Description:
NC FAST is looking for an experienced Agile Project manager to provide senior level project management for various NC FAST projects and products. This role strives to enable teams to become self-organizing, cross-functional, and accountable while assisting them to achieve their development goals, removing impediments, and resolving issues outside of the team's control. This resource will facilitate prioritization and planning of efforts for one or more products to a high standard. Resource must be coachable and know how to work with Product Owners/Managers, Scrum/flow Masters, and Stakeholders, works as a good team player based on Agile principle to enable understanding, learning and behaviors that drives customer and business values. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: authoring all project management artifacts following the practices and guidelines from the PMI's PMBOK or Scaled Agile, helping develop project budget/resource/ timeline planning , monitoring expenditures, and ensuring that project plans and schedules are established and maintained. This role will also be responsible for conducting formal presentations, coordinating with all project stakeholders, ensuring that appropriate project controls are instituted, and helping developing Federally required documents as requested, and providing status documents.
Required/Desired Skills
Skill
Required /Desired
Amount
of Experience
Strong organization and analytical thinking skills with experience preparing Project plan for complex business needs.
Required
10
Years
Strong experience in understanding and implementation of Agile values, principles, and practices (i.e., Kanban, Scrum)
Required
5
Years
Development of business/functional requirements, RFI's, RFP's, Federal level reporting documentation and systems analysis.
Required
7
Years
Strong hands on experience with tools like MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
Required
10
Years
Demonstrated experience working on multiple priorities and/or projects simultaneously without impact to quality of work.
Required
5
Years
Strong experience using facilitation and communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Required
7
Years
Experience in business planning, human services program management, project management, and experience in multi-platform environments.
Required
5
Years
Strong experience using risk and business impact analysis and reporting skills.
Required
7
Years
Experience in gaining buy-in and support from stakeholders.
Required
7
Years
Strong risk and business impact analysis and reporting skills.
Required
7
Years
Experience managing, maintaining, and analyzing data to derive meaningful and actionable insights about the program/project.
Required
5
Years
Demonstrated experience using effective leadership, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
Required
7
Years
Certified Scrum Master or Kanban certification.
Highly desired
Years
Knowledge of DevOps practices.
Highly desired
2
Years
Experience with tracking, monitoring flow and reporting in Jira.
Highly desired
2
Years
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