Strong organization and analytical thinking skills with experience preparing Project plan for complex business needs.
Strong experience in understanding and implementation of Agile values, principles, and practices (i.e., Kanban, Scrum)
Development of business/functional requirements, RFI’s, RFP’s, Federal level reporting documentation and systems analysis.
Strong hands on experience with tools like MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
Demonstrated experience working on multiple priorities and/or projects simultaneously without impact to quality of work.
Strong experience using facilitation and communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience in business planning, human services program management, project management, and experience in multi-platform environments.
Strong experience using risk and business impact analysis and reporting skills.
Experience in gaining buy-in and support from stakeholders.
Strong risk and business impact analysis and reporting skills.
Experience managing, maintaining, and analyzing data to derive meaningful and actionable insights about the program/project.
Demonstrated experience using effective leadership, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
Certified Scrum Master or Kanban certification.
Knowledge of DevOps practices.
Experience with tracking, monitoring flow and reporting in Jira.
All work must be completed on site once COVID restrictions are lifted. Do you accept this requirement?
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.
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.