Project Manager (Job 1518)

Overview

This is a project management position that requires strong organizational, communication, stakeholder management, and strong working knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and hybrid project delivery methodologies. The job involves assessing business needs, writing project charters, project management plans, drafting project schedules to chart milestones and key activities, planning, executing, monitoring, and closing projects, leveraging enterprise project management tools to establish project team collaboration, and keeping stakeholders at various levels informed of project status.

Responsibilities

• Organize, lead, and motivate project teams to achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering technical solutions that provide exceptional business value.
• Establish a project team by identifying resource needs and defining roles and responsibilities. Lead cross-functional teams to achieve project objectives, regularly report on status, and manage projects through the entire lifecycle.
• Manage scope, schedule, quality, risks, and issues for several concurrent high-visibility projects using Agile and hybrid methodologies.
• Analyze problems with a flexible and creative approach, leveraging team strengths to quickly deliver customer value. Manage complex tasks and adapt to rapidly changing requirements.
• Play other roles as needed to support successful project delivery, the PMO, and strategic IT department objectives.
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with a diverse group of staff members, stakeholders, and customers.
• Analyze project management needs and tailor industry best practices to suit the environment.
• Work with stakeholders to define clear project objectives and requirements, obtain agreement on priorities, communicate progress updates (written or verbal), resolve issues and conflicts, and provide responsive change management.
• Work with cross-functional teams with diverse technical skill sets to support successful performance across operations and projects.
• Develop and maintain necessary project artifacts and ensure the desired level of technical solution documentation is maintained.
• Lead and participate in meetings; follow up on direction, action items, questions, documentation, etc.
• Serve as a point of contact for customer leadership and corporate executive management.
• Use critical thinking and communication skills to absorb and relay strategic needs articulated by customers and ensure these concepts are written into project charters.
• Update SharePoint collection list of projects and portfolio status on a weekly basis.
• Capture, monitor, and update project risks and issues in the project management tool on a weekly basis.
• Assist Technical Leads in factoring strategic and prioritized projects into their sprint planning. Fill communication gaps by connecting leadership strategy to Technical Lead work prioritization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related discipline with 5+ years of project management experience or a high school diploma with 8+ years of related experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on Agile Project Manager or Scrum Master experience, including performing backlog management, work specification/decomposition, Agile Scrum, Kanban, and lessons learned.
• Experience developing Project Charters, Project Management Plans, Project Schedules, and executive/customer presentations.
• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Project, Office Suite, and collaboration tools (Jira, Teams, SharePoint, etc.).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, attention to detail, and strong customer-facing and business analysis skills.

Self-starter and quick learner with lots of initiative and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or PMI-ACP
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with application development, release management, change management, knowledge management, cloud services, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and end-user support systems
• ITIL v3/v4 Foundation

Basic Compensation: $123,000 - $143,000 yearly salary

Pay and benefits

The salary range listed reflects what we reasonably expect to pay for this role at the time of posting. The final offer may vary based on skills, experience, geographic location, market conditions, and internal equity. Additional compensation may include performance incentives and program-specific awards. We do not use salary history to determine compensation, in line with applicable law.

Benefits

DLH Corp offers our employees an excellent benefits package, including Personal Time Off (PTO), medical, dental, vision, supplemental life with AD&D, disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, and more. We want our employees to save for their future; therefore, we offer a 401(k) Retirement Plan, which includes a matching component. DLH is dedicated to your career development, providing training to help drive success, with access to our best-in-class e-learning suite for formal and informal learning, professional and technical certification preparation, and education assistance at accredited institutions.