Non-Technical Project Manager II (Remote)

Job Summary
Purisolve, Inc. is building a team of Project Management professionals to support enterprise-wide transformation initiatives. Each position requires foundational understanding and experience with project management. 

Additionally, applicants must have proven proficiency with one or more of the following practices:

1. Risk Management
2. Scheduling and Maintenance
3. Program and Project Management Support and Controls
4. Portfolio and Project-level Executive Reporting
5. Documentation Management and SharePoint Support
6. QA & QC Site Reviews
7. Process Improvement & Organizational Change
8. Strategic Communication and Stakeholder Engagement

This is an opportunity to be part of a high-impact team, ensuring the successful implementation of federal agency transformation strategy with oversight of key programs and results, as defined by their enterprise transformation roadmap.

Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities - All team members will be responsible for:

• Supporting the structured approach to planning, organizing and managing a portfolio of projects, during all project phases, while ensuring achievement of program goals.
• Assisting with Executive Level Reporting and Communications support, including deliverable status, health and progress of key activities, accomplishments, issues and risks.
• Ensuring compliance with best practices, policies, and organizational objectives.
• Using project management tools such as Microsoft Project, SharePoint, Visio, and other Office applications.

Specialties - Candidates must demonstrate significant expertise in at least one of the following areas:

• Risk Management – identifying risks, defining mitigation strategies and responses to potential risk events.
• Scheduling and Maintenance - developing and maintaining Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) for multiple concurrent projects; experience with tracking and monitoring dependencies, deliverables, and milestones across projects.
• Program and Project Management Support and Controls  – using and tailoring of structured management approaches for all project phases (Initiation – Closure); project planning; development and update of standard project management documentation; project tracking and reporting; supporting project reviews; coaching to assist in adoption of incremental development and delivery; facilitation of lessons learned and continuous improvement.
• Portfolio and Project-level Executive Reporting – presenting program and project objectives, progress, risks and issues in a clear and concise manner
• Documentation Management & SharePoint Leadership – designing, implementing, and managing Documentation Management Repositories for document review, comments and approval.  Use of SharePoint site as a central repository to logically organize and preserve work products and other resources.  Retain artifacts in compliance with NARA record retention strategies.
• QA & QC Site Reviews – planning and performing QA activities, including reviews and retrospectives at key project stages to assess project progress, quality and compliance; performing QC activities to address non-conformances/non-compliances, resolve errors/defects and ensure product quality; reporting on fixes and corrective actions.
• Process Improvement & Organizational Change – analyzing work processes, identifying areas of improvement, and implementing best practices and standards.
• Strategic Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Management – defining and delivering stakeholder engagement strategy; facilitating collaboration, consensus/buy-in and acceptance of digital solutions; conducting organizational readiness assessments; tracking status and reporting on initiatives and related dependencies; accelerating solution acceptance through marketing campaigns, notices and other digital communications.

Minimum Requirements

• Position requires MBI (Minimum Background Investigation) with the IRS.
• Candidates must have a US Citizenship or a Green Card for at least 3 years.
• Candidates must have at least 5 years of dedicated Project Management experience with a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience). This experience must demonstrate on-going use of project management principles, methodologies and best practices.
• Candidates must have at least 5 years of experience with dedicated focus on one or more of the above project management specialties.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and an attention to detail, are required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint (at least, as a SharePoint user), is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP or other relevant project management certification(s).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving experience in a consulting environment.
• Business process improvement and change management experience.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision and life insurance
• Health and flexible spending accounts
• 401k with employer matching
• Paid time off; paid Federal holidays

Job Type

• Full time, day shift, Monday – Friday
• 100% remote
• Travel to high-level meetings at New Carrollton, MD and Washington DC facilities