Project/Program Manager II
Spectraforce
Seattle, Washington
9 hours ago
Job Description
Job Title – Project/Program Manager II
Location – Seattle, WA
Duration – 6 Months
Job Description:
Responsible for the coordination and completion of project/program. Oversees all aspects of projects. Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project/program. Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of project/program. May require a bachelor's degree and 4-7 years of experience in the field or in a related area. Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of tasks. Leads and directs the work of others. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department.
Business Group:
Key Projects:
Day to Day (during ramp):
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 50.00/hr.
Location – Seattle, WA
Duration – 6 Months
Job Description:
Responsible for the coordination and completion of project/program. Oversees all aspects of projects. Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project/program. Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of project/program. May require a bachelor's degree and 4-7 years of experience in the field or in a related area. Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of tasks. Leads and directs the work of others. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department.
Business Group:
- Team is economic development project management team
- Secure incentives for the business (negotiating and security property and sales tax abatements for infrastructure regions)
- A very busy team, very dynamic scope beyond incentive agreements there is a lot of work that is needed to do
- Self-manage a lot of internal workflows, including approvals, tax sign off, finance sign off
- An external facing function where they are articulating the value of investment
- Prescence in these host communities around the US
- Help manage hyper local engagement strategy
- Lean team of 9 for entire US
- A lot of different EDPM (Econ depth project managers) that are in different states, team travels significantly.
Key Projects:
- A lot being worked on internally to streamline their workflows
- Large effort on onboarding team to spreadsheets (need experience building out smartsheet)
- Broader range of more general project manager functions (creating templates, centralized filing systems, taxonomy)
- This contractor will work on operational program management piece
Day to Day (during ramp):
- Take an audit of what is had internally (using at existing filing systems, looking at smartsheet and how its built out, spending time with different core team members)
- Branching out to key partner teams to understand what their workflows look like
- Identify what the pieces that are missing from PMO perspective
- Help build out that broader framework
- In the beginning will be spending time with a lot of individuals, diving into content that is had, and put the puzzle together.
- Bringing program manager perspective.
- Helping advance smart sheet
- Ensure right view set up
- Leveraging the right information
- Being able to pull in data from other partner teams
- Work with one of consultants to streamline other PM workflows
- Establishing a new filing structure for the team
- Drafting/pushing various templates for external/internal facing workflows
- Developing training resources around smartsheet
- Bias for action – high velocity decision making
- Earns trust – work requires a good rapport with team and partner teams
- 4-7 years of experience in the field or in a related area
- Smartsheet experience (at least 2 YOE)
- Develop standardized templates or playbooks
- End to end project work flows
- Tracking systems
- Smartsheet experience
- Centralized management system that they created
- Cross functional timelines
- Automation experience (automate workflows)
- Project management software management experience and how it works
- Technical writing – draft clear and concise documentation (emails/templates)
- Building frameworks (create process mapping and optimization)
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 50.00/hr.