Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The U.S. Department of Education's Federal Student Aid (FSA) is modernizing systems that serve over 17 million students. The IT Project Manager will oversee project management tasks, ensuring the successful execution of IT projects aligned with organizational goals.
Responsibilities
- Managing and ensuring the performance of role-specific tasks: project, time, resource, and budget management, scope management, schedule management, risk management and coordination on contracts and contracts management and oversight
- Managing the identification and coordination of technical activities of project team(s), prioritizes and facilitates technical tasks and sequence tracks of work, of IT projects/initiatives in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner aligned to deliver business value
- Managing and ensures the performance of role-specific tasks: project, time, resource, and budget management, scope management, schedule management, risk management and coordination on contracts and contracts management and oversight (in role as Contracting Officer's Technical Representative [COTR]/ Contracting Office Representative [COR])
- Identifying and consulting on technical resource requirements for projects (e.g., analysts, developers, quality assurance), and onboard qualified resources to support project needs
- Managing effectively and efficiently various Information Technology (IT) projects
Skills
- Must be a US Citizen
- Must complete a background investigation and fingerprint check
- You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this vacancy announcement
- One year of experience in either federal or non-federal service that is equivalent to at least a GS-13 performing two (2) out of three (3) of the following duties or work assignments:
- Experience leading cross-functional project teams utilizing agile methodologies and practices while identifying and managing associated risks, issues, contracts, and change requests to meet schedule, budget, and organizational policies and objectives to facilitate the delivery of incremental software or system enhancements
- Experience in applying agile methods to support technical integration, system modernization, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure IT systems are compatible with architecture, cloud platforms, system interfaces, and cybersecurity requirements to reduce technical debt and improve release predictability
- Experience implementing risk and issue management processes, ensuring potential blockers are identified early, escalated appropriately, resolved and aligned with established change-control processes within agile release frameworks to adhere to program timelines and deliverables
- You must possess IT related experience (paid or unpaid experience and/or completion of specific, intensive training (e.g., IT certification), as appropriate) demonstrating each of the nine competencies listed below
- Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail
- Customer Service - Works with clients and customers to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations
- Decision Making - Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions
- Information Management - Identifies a need for and knows where or how to gather information; organizes and maintains information or information management systems
- Interpersonal Skills - Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others
- Oral Communication - Expresses information to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information
- Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations
- Teamwork - Encourages and facilitates cooperation, pride, trust, and group identity
- Technical Competence – Uses knowledge that is acquired through formal training or on-the-job experience to perform one's job
- Skill in leading and directing people, teams and programs/projects associated with IT application development
- Ability to deliver mission critical IT initiatives to meet organizational objectives using agile project management tools or techniques
- Ability to develop acquisition artifacts required to procure, and provide services for implementation, and operations and maintenance of an IT system and oversee vendor performance upon contract award
- Ability to lead complex IT initiatives while managing changing priorities, evolving legislative or regulatory requirements and coordinating with various internal and external stakeholders
Benefits
- A comprehensive benefits package
- Family-friendly work environment
- Excused leave for Parent/Teacher Conferences (3 hours)
- Excused leave for annual health screenings (4 hours)
- Matching leave for community volunteer service
- Alternative work schedules
- Recruitment incentive for this position (requires signing a service agreement)
- Relocation incentive for this position (requires signing a service agreement)
- Student Loan Repayment Program as a recruitment incentive for this position (requires signing a service agreement)
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