Job Description

Compass Pointe Consulting LLC, is a Maryland based, Woman Owned Small Business specializing in IT and Finance & Accounting Solutions and Services is looking for a PMP Project Manager to work 100% REMOTE. Due to the nature of the work performed U.S. citizenship is required.

JOB DUTIES:

• Manages the overall performance and delivery of medium to large cross-functional programs and projects
• Directs and coaches teams in entrepreneurial project management competencies including stakeholder partnership, leadership, judgment, scope management, and risk management while ensuring adherence to project governance and methodologies, and accurate financial management
• Establishes and implements plans that achieve overall current and long term objectives of the business and meet program schedules
• Implements hierarchical review structures to status work in process, monitor leading indicators, and develop work-around options within the given trade-space of programs/portfolios
• Responsible for the total life-cycle of programs and sets program baselines
• Matches technical approaches to appropriate schedule methods
• Identifies scope changes and develops program positions for equitable cost and schedule adjustments
• Uses incremental development and other strategies to develop an agile program in order to support early risk mitigation
• Initiates efforts to correct departmental, division, or group wide issues that impact the business performance
• Develops strong cross-functional teams and a working environment that fosters professional growth for team members as well as good relationships with internal customers and suppliers
• Conducts reviews to drill down into issues on programs, identify risks, develop corrective actions, and communicate issues, impacts and corrective actions to program team
• Maintains awareness of cross applications/project synergies and actively communicate opportunities to simplify or better align work across teams
• Follows established processes for project governance and management preparation including Proposals, Baselines, and Project Reviews

MUST HAVE SKILLS:

• Minimum of 5 years infrastructure project experience (segmented networks, firewalls, desktops, servers, storage, cyber security tooling, facilities/site management)
• Must be PMP Certified
• Knowledge of cloud-based technology and migrations
• Demonstrated success with multiple concurrent projects in a highly matrixed environment
• Agile/Scrum and blended agile-waterfall experience preferred
• Proven ability to motivate teams to deliver large cross functional programs and projects in a very dynamic, fast-paced, and matrix enterprise environment
• Demonstrated entrepreneurial project management skills: stakeholder partnership, leadership, judgment, scope management, and risk management
• Demonstrated knowledge of work estimating, allocation, scheduling and progress measurement
• Ability to recognize overall strategic and tactical objectives and set interim and overarching goals to achieve them
• Extensive knowledge and experience with project management methodologies and processes and project financial management, solid understanding of business analysis and systems development methods, organizational change management concepts, and business process improvement
• Demonstrated understanding of value proposition and ability to tailor plans to optimize success for stakeholders
• Ability to apply advanced negotiation skills to solve internal, external and customer issues
• Ability to forecast program performance and plan accordingly with resources as required
• Ability to analyze program financial data and offer solutions to maximize all positive financial effects