Project Manager - Remote

at  Compugen Inc

Qualifications:

• They will have at least 5 years of significant and recent, related experience in a leadership capacity on complex initiatives, including the ability to lead and motivate a team, delegate tasks, and provide guidance and support throughout the project lifecycle in an agile delivery environment.
• Formal project management training and certification including PMP (preferred) or PRINCE2.
• Excellent organizational, planning and scheduling skills with very strong attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills to prioritize tasks, manage deadlines, and ensure timely completion of project deliverables.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, including the ability to communicate complicated technical issues effectively to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences: executive and senior leadership; product managers; project agile team members; vendor-partners; service providers; and other stakeholders.
• Familiarity with predictive and hybrid project management as well as managing projects in kanban/agile style and utilizing work management tools such as Jira.
• Strong analytical skills including the ability to quickly identify potential issues and risks and craft innovative solutions.
• Experience navigating interdependencies across multiple business teams, agile delivery teams (Scrum, Kanban, Hybrid methodologies) and external vendor partners.
• Effective negotiation with sponsors of other initiatives, product owners of teams with competing priorities and deadlines, and others.
• Application of appropriate judgment and discretion in the resolution or escalation of project issues and recommendations to the Project Sponsor, Steering or Governance committees.
• In depth knowledge of standard project management methodologies and tools including scope and budget management, work breakdown structures and scheduling, stakeholder management, communication planning, risk assessment, readiness assessment, etc.
• Fluent in Confluence, Jira, the Microsoft Office Suite/SharePoint, and MS Project.
• Strong understanding of web development and website infrastructure.
• Experience with SaaS applications and integrations in complex environments, mobile applications and vendor management.
• Experience working with a Crown corporation is preferred.
• Experience with the gambling industry preferred.
• Company has an existing (at time of submission) and ongoing contract with Candidate

• Utilizing a project management methodology and processes for project activities and gates; creating and managing standard project management artifacts and activities as required, including project plans, budget, scope, schedule and timeline, risk register, status reports, and others, with a focus on effective delivery.
• Conducting initial project planning, soliciting estimates, requirements and user stories, incorporating change management, establishing timelines, and monitoring progress to ensure timely completion of projects.
• Obtaining and allocating resources: assigning tasks to agile delivery team, allocating resources effectively to ensure project success.
• Ensuring compliance with information privacy and security assessments, and project governance, procedures and practices, including escalating unresolved issues.
• Monitoring project deliverables to ensure they meet quality standards and align with project requirements, managing testing activities as required.
• Content and business writing and maintaining accurate project documentation, including project plans, status reports, and meeting minutes, for communication, future reference and auditing purposes
• Executing and supporting other project activities and tasks for one or more projects as reasonably required by the client Project Manager.

Qualifications:

• They will have at least 5 years of significant and recent, related experience in a leadership capacity on complex initiatives, including the ability to lead and motivate a team, delegate tasks, and provide guidance and support throughout the project lifecycle in an agile delivery environment.
• Formal project management training and certification including PMP (preferred) or PRINCE2.
• Excellent organizational, planning and scheduling skills with very strong attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills to prioritize tasks, manage deadlines, and ensure timely completion of project deliverables.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, including the ability to communicate complicated technical issues effectively to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences: executive and senior leadership; product managers; project agile team members; vendor-partners; service providers; and other stakeholders.
• Familiarity with predictive and hybrid project management as well as managing projects in kanban/agile style and utilizing work management tools such as Jira.
• Strong analytical skills including the ability to quickly identify potential issues and risks and craft innovative solutions.
• Experience navigating interdependencies across multiple business teams, agile delivery teams (Scrum, Kanban, Hybrid methodologies) and external vendor partners.
• Effective negotiation with sponsors of other initiatives, product owners of teams with competing priorities and deadlines, and others.
• Application of appropriate judgment and discretion in the resolution or escalation of project issues and recommendations to the Project Sponsor, Steering or Governance committees.
• In depth knowledge of standard project management methodologies and tools including scope and budget management, work breakdown structures and scheduling, stakeholder management, communication planning, risk assessment, readiness assessment, etc.
• Fluent in Confluence, Jira, the Microsoft Office Suite/SharePoint, and MS Project.
• Strong understanding of web development and website infrastructure.
• Experience with SaaS applications and integrations in complex environments, mobile applications and vendor management.
• Experience working with a Crown corporation is preferred.
• Experience with the gambling industry preferred.
• Company has an existing (at time of submission) and ongoing contract with Candidate.