*This position is contingent upon contract award. *
We are Skyward.
That is, a love for people, for improvement, for human advancement through information technology. We are a people-centered business with a desire to serve others. We are diverse and unified; creative and collaborative; a collection of complementary, not competing talents. And though on the surface we remain relaxed, beneath, a torrent of energy links us to our civic tech mission.
We stand by our values, and we won’t compromise on any of them.
Integrity: We’re conscientious, intentional, and empathetic. Our words and actions align. That’s our character. Please don’t ask us to play another part, we’re poor actors.
Compassionate: If we may borrow a quote from Theodore Roosevelt: “No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” Because our team is thoughtful and supportive, caring deeply for each other, our clients, and our work, this comes naturally.
Inquisitive: We remain students by failing openly and turning lessons into solutions.
Unconventional: For us, life isn’t what happens outside of work. Work happens inside of life and our culture erases the line often dividing the two.
Authentic: Made possible only because we embody the values listed above. We’re relaxed and fun yet intensely curious and driven. Team members are placed with thought, care, and precision to ensure that Trust, Truth, and Transparency continue to represent our brand.
Because of that, we continue Onward, Upward, and Skyward.
We need a Project Manager.
Do you listen to understand before formulating a response? Pick up on what’s left unsaid? Have a tight grasp on context? Write well? To be clear, we’re not looking for an author, but you should enjoy writing strategic plans, schedules, project requirements, and deliverables. And then writing new plans to follow up on those original plans. If we just described you, hit the apply button, like, now.
Come join us if you're motivated to learn from others, to learn from mistakes, to be part of a future-looking and growth-oriented team.
Let's go Skyward together.
What you'll do:Lead a team that is supporting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) by disseminating data to researchers who are studying ways to improve the quality and reduce the cost of care provided to chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries. (No big deal).Provide technical, administrative, and operational management to assigned projects or task(s).Participate in the development of technical project plans, reports, schedules and administrative reporting.Conducts planning and provides recommendations on task workloadManage risk tracking process.Attend customer meetings and serve as client liaison.Coordinates development of deliverables and products.Ensure quality assurance of project deliverables.Create, update, and maintain a modernization plan for existing IT systems that includes scope, an implementation strategy, schedule, results-oriented goals, and measures.Conduct analyses of previously implemented systems, ensuring each system is meeting customer and business needs, and identify areas for innovation.What we'd like you to have: Bachelor’s degree and at least 3 years of experience planning and executing projects.Experience managing federal IT projects that includes professional support services and software engineering.Agile certification (i.e., PMI-ACP, Certified Scrum Master, Certified Product Owner).Experience with one or more different agile methodologies, including Scrum, Lean, or SAFe.Experience managing matrixed teams.Experience documenting and writing things. (Did we mention this already?)Experience using Jira and Confluence (you know, to document).What would blow us away: Your entire project management experience has been supporting federal agencies.You eat, sleep, and breathe IT project management and agile methodologies.Skyward IT Solutions is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.
All candidates must have Work Authorization in the United States and the ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
Offers of employment with Skyward IT Solutions, LLC are contingent upon acceptable results of a background investigation.
