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Cook Inlet Region, Inc Project Manager III in Anchorage, Alaska

This position will lead cross organizational teams, providing project management support on multiple small, mid-level, and enterprise level software projects simultaneously with very limited oversight from management. Software project support includes the assessment, maintenance, documentation, modernization, testing, and implementation for both custom applications and Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) products.

Major Activities (Typical Duties/Responsibilities)

The project manager is responsible for supporting strategic initiatives at the Hanford site which will include; defining tasks and timelines, coordinating across departments, managing budgets, and ensuring timely delivery. The project manager is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, and completion of projects ensuring consistency with organizational strategy, contractual commitments, and goals.

Specific duties include but are not limited to the following:

Schedule Management:

  • Create and maintain detailed project schedules, including resource allocations.
  • Regularly meet with development team members to ensure balance between demand and capacity, review actual hours worked vs planned hours to ensure deadlines and budgets are maintained.

Estimating and Budget Management:

  • Provide ROM estimates utilizing the approved OSC/HMIS Business Office processes with input from development team.
  • Ability to create a Detailed Cost Estimate to provide a more comprehensive response when requested by customer utilizing the approved OSC/HMIS Business Office processes.
  • Once approval and funds are received, ensure project cost are tracked throughout project life cycle against the planned schedule and budget.
  • Manage any cost variance and report overall project progress and execution within the project portfolio management system as required.
  • Demonstrate basic understanding of and ability to apply Earned Value Management System (EVMS) techniques to projects as required.

Stakeholder Engagement:

  • Demonstrate effective communication and presentation skills to both internal and external project stakeholders.
  • Manage stakeholder expectations, maintain productive relationships, and ensure client engagement during the project life cycle.
  • Demonstrate ability to communicate to all levels within the organization, including senior management, at the appropriate level of technical depth depending on the audience.

Change Control:

  • Document change control items per standard project management process, procedures, and best practices; track impact to schedule, scope, resources, or cost.
  • Demonstrate ability to influence all levels of the organization and stakeholders of the importance of proper change control during all stages of the SDLC.

Risk and Quality Management:

  • Identify, assess, document, manage, mitigate, and communicate issues and risks throughout the project life cycle.
  • Develop and maintain contingency plans based on identified project risks.
  • Understand when and where to seek guidance and/or input on the quality requirements from various stakeholders.
  • Demonstrate ability to identify quality gaps, align with the stakeholders on quality requirements, and help ensure that the development teams are uniformly delivering the quality requirements of a given project.

DevSecOps and Production Support Process Adherence:

  • Ensure your teams adhere to DevSecOps and production support policies and procedures (including contractor-specific procedures) related to standard development management, release management, change management, SQA, and production support.
  • Ensure that you have an in-depth understanding of all applicable procedures for each contractor project supported.
  • Lead and direct your team in a manner that adheres to all sitewide and contractor specific procedures for each project.
  • Assist with the promotion of various DevSecOps proce ses to influence or assist teams in adapting to industry standard development trends for DevSecOps.

Project Reporting, Documentation, and Deliverables:

  • Provide weekly and monthly project reporting, within required deadlines, on work performed.
  • Ensure that required contract deliverables are tracked to completion, delivered on time, and meet customer expectations.
  • Ensure that SQA documentation is created, maintained, approved, and issued per Project Contractor's applicable procedures.
  • Document and create Epics, Features, and User stories within the Azure DevOps environment to track customer requirements and priorities.
  • Work with development resources on user story estimates and track within Azure DevOps.
  • Plan sprint cycles within Azure DevOps that align with application release schedules.
  • Provide project status reporting to stakeholders that ensures they have greater insight into the project, improves project tracking, and documents project progress.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

  • You have proven strong organizational and leadership skills to manage large high-profile projects or processes under tight deadlines with very limited oversight from manager.
  • You are highly self-motivated and self-directed.
  • You have the vision and mindset to identify, handle, and resolve problems quickly before they become recurring issues.
  • You are able to build a rapport with stakeholders by actively listening to and understanding their needs and concerns to ensure you can address them effectively.
  • You are familiar with all aspects of software quality assurance principles. This could include but not limited to ASME Nuclear Quality Assurance (NQA-1) standards.
  • You are able to communicate effectively and work well in teams while continuously learning from peers. You are able to provide clear, concise, and effective verbal and written communications regularly to ensure that all project stakeholders are informed of project status.
  • You are able to facilitate all project meetings and create/update/distribute project documentation.
  • You are able to provide effective leadership to development teams, fellow project managers, and project stakeholders.

Physical Abilities

Sufficient fine motor skills for the use of computers, calculators with an ability to withstand repetitive keyboarding for extended periods of time.

Visual and communications ability adequate to perform the essential functions of the job.

Ability to kneel, bend and twist at the waist on an occasional basis.

Ability to reach below shoulder height with regular frequency (desk position) and at or above shoulder height on occasion.

Ability to push, pull, carry and lift objects weighing up to 10 pounds on a regular basis, and greater weights on an occasional basis.

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