Resource Profile
- 10 + years of experience in project management, managing medium to large sized IT projects. Experience in Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
Resource Responsibilities
- Lead comprehensive training plan development & maintenance including content, delivery methods and evaluation strategies.
- Coordinate training efforts with training team, trainers, SMEs and other stakeholders to ensure effective training delivery.
- Support Program director in workstream level change request/order process as required.
- Manage training schedules ensuring they align with project timelines and employee availability.
- Monitor and support delivery of training programs to ensure they are conducted effectively.
- Offer assistance and resources to trainers and participants during training sessions.
- Support training team to evaluate & improve training experience.
- Work with training team to generate comprehensive reports on training activities, outcomes and recommendations for future training initiatives.
- Define and manage workstream PM's tasks for training and change management workstreams.
- Lead comprehensive change plan development & maintenance.
- Proactively identify potential risks associated with the change initiative and develop mitigation strategies.
- Work with stakeholders and project leadership to address and resolve issues that arise during the change process.
- Ensure all project documentation including change management plans and communication materials is complete and accurate.
- Work with change leads to conduct evaluations to assess the effectiveness of the change management initiatives.
- Accountable to Program Director for execution of Program Stream plan and deliverables in accordance to Program priorities and in adherence with Client governance.
- Accountable to Program PM for EPMO deliverables and managing cross team dependencies.
- Accountable to Program PM for managing workstream level schedule & resource dependencies to deliver against overall schedule.
- Accountable to Training & ECM sponsors/leads for managing execution of change & training plan and deliverables in accordance to Program priorities and in adherence with Client governance.
- Promoting and ensuring discipline and rigor in workstream level delivery by supporting core project management areas (e.g., issue/risk management, reporting and change control management).
Requirements
Knowledge & Skills
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience in project management and scrum in a software development environment managing medium to large sized projects
- Experience with managing project activities throughout the project lifecycle
- Experience in creating and executing project plans, and managing projects through completion
- Experience in projects involving IT and business teams
- Experience with a range of agile delivery techniques and tools
- Excellent understanding of the software development life cycle
- Excellent project management, analytical and problem solving skills
- Strong ability to facilitate, understand and contribute to technical discussions
- Effective communicator with excellent verbal and written communication skills. Comfortable communicating with IT development teams as well as business stakeholders and Senior Management.
- Effective facilitation and conflict resolution skills; able to facilitate discussion of multiple approaches and drive resolution.
- Ability to prepare/edit comprehensive reports, and other documents with strong attention to detail and excellent organizational skills
- Ability to create and review burndown, velocity and predictability reports
- High level of personal accountability, as evidenced by commitment, resilience, ownership, and mindset toward continuous learning
- Hardworking, strong attention to detail, high-energy, motivated, and driven to help the team excel
- Excellent interpersonal and social skills; able to work with diverse personality types
- Strong business acumen and excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Both PMP and Scrum Master Certification (ex. CSM, SAFe SM) is a must