Position:Learning and Development Project Manager
Location: Los Alamos, NM
"Candidates with "Q Clearance" will be preferred."
Responsibilities:
- Support and coordinate the roll-out (delivery/execution) of MMD - simultaneously manage multiple short-term sub-projects, in various stages by employing focused task management, creative problem-solving skills, and tactical and strategic planning to keep projects on time and budget
- Iterate, update, and maintain comprehensive and detailed project plans that summarize critical short and long-term tasks and deliverables; coordinate planning activities with other Project Managers across multiple workstreams
- Ensure tactical execution of complex strategic initiative that requires swift decision-making
- Take ownership of all project issues with a hands-on approach to root cause analysis and problem resolution while leading the team to fact-based decision-making
- Manage interactions between Learning Partners, stakeholders, and functions to help coordinate strategy development and potential implementation or experimentation
- Maintain updated report-outs to communicate the status of progress, challenges, and risk mitigation
- Interface with vendors which requires strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Coordinate all team efforts including team meetings
- Provide support for entering project updates into the GLD portfolio management tool(s)
- Assist in budget development, forecasting, tracking, and monitoring (spending analysis) for individual projects, including entering financial forecasts into systems
- Work with administrative staff to create purchase orders
- Coordinate and manage curriculum development and enrolments in Workday
- Update and manage project communications, GLD communications, agendas, PPT presentations, and material generation; help to develop and maintain executive-level PowerPoint presentations that effectively "tell a story" With data and program information
- Manage tracking of learning program metrics for regular reporting
- Develop excellent working relationships with cross-functional leadership and teams at all levels of the organization and facilitate interaction between these groups
Qualification:
- Strong Project Management skills Ability to be strategic, tactical, and operational in thinking
- Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. Comfortable in operating in "white space"
- Experience with Agile principles is desirable, not necessary
- Budget management experience (preferred, but not required)
- Detail-oriented, with strong time management, prioritizing, and follow-up skills
- Ability to operate and deliver with ambiguity
- Experience leading global project teams and virtual settings
- Familiar with curriculum development and Learning Management systems
- Proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders, mobilize and motivate teams, resolve conflict, and deliver tough messages with grace
- Ability to remove barriers and enable teams to complete their objectives
- Focused and versatile team player that is comfortable under pressure
- Ability to navigate a highly matrixed organization effectively
- Ability to manage projects for diverse teams to maximize performance and accomplish business outcomes
- Ability to communicate at all levels of the organization with clarity and precision both written and verbally
- Fast Learner; Sound business acumen: Proactive communication; Risk identification; Vendor Management; Flexible/agile; Stakeholder influencing
- Technical skills to include MS Project, Excel, MS Teams, and PPT (creative and visual)