Agile Project Manager (Remote)

$100,000 - $110,000/Yr

GovCIO - Springfield, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Springfield, IL

About the position

GovCIO is seeking a full-time Agile Project Manager to lead a new program award. This remote position requires a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) with project management experience, particularly in agile methodologies. The role involves managing diverse teams, facilitating project meetings, and ensuring project milestones are met while maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Identify, communicate and mitigate risks to the program
• Manage schedule and performance of a program
• Provide oral and written discussion of analytical findings using narrative and graphic forms
• Facilitate and document meetings effectively
• Identify symptoms for process improvement
• Work independently with minimal guidance and supervision
• Act as a leader to our software development team
• Oversee design, implementation, QA, operations, sustainment, and validation of programming code and products
• Create project outlines and timelines and distribute responsibilities to team members
• Facilitate daily scrums, stand-ups, and meetings to monitor project progress
• Shape team behavior through excellent management via the agile method
• Ensure milestones are reached and deadlines are met throughout the project lifecycle
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, application users, and program leaders
• Document progress and communicate to upper management and stakeholders
• Develop and present project briefings
• Manage project goals, scope, requirements, costs, schedule, and/or risks
• Provide recurring or ad hoc project status reports
• Coordinate meeting invites, develop meeting agendas, facilitate meetings, and develop meeting minutes
• Maintain document and data repositories - SharePoint, Jira, GitHub, EPMD Tools, and other TBD.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 2-5 years of experience or commensurate experience
• Experience with diverse IT projects
• Experience working as a Project Manager and/or Scrum Master on a Scrum/Agile Team
• Strong attention to detail
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• Analytical and investigation skills
• Competence in Microsoft Suite
• Strong verbal and written skills
• Positive attitude and willingness to step in, where needed.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working on a VA IT team
• Demonstrated experience successfully working alongside remotely located personnel
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification
• Certified Associate Project Manager (CAPM) Certification
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
• Certified Scrum Professional Scrum Master (CSP-SM) Certification
• Certified Scrum Professional Product Owner (CSP-PO) Certification
• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Certification.