Optimal Solutions & Technologies (OST, Inc.) is focused on excellence. We specialize in providing Management Consulting, Information Technology, and Research Development and Engineering services. OST is one of an elite set of companies worldwide to be externally appraised CMMI Level 5.
The fundamental distinction of the OST team is its business knowledge in both the public and private sectors. We serve the aerospace & transportation, association & nonprofit, defense, education, energy, financial, healthcare, and technology & telecommunications industries. OST is successful because we listen to our clients, we learn from our clients, and we know our clients.
Description of specific Duties in a typical workday for this position:
- Set-up and lead meetings, maintain minutes, follow up on action items, and balance multiple work items at once.
- Use MS Office Suite to create well-formatted reports and presentations.
- Track and follow-up with functional and technical leads on decisions and action items.
- Track and coordinate deadlines and submissions of unique as well as recurring programmatic events.
- Work with teams to identify project performance bottlenecks, work with teams and leads to address and resolve them.
- Assist with change and configuration management artifacts, and communication of change notification to appropriate stakeholders.
- Assist with Performance and Portfolio management with PMO leads and agile governance team.
- Promote enterprise wide implementation of agile best practices.
- Serve as Project Management Office (PMO) liaison to the various release trains.
- Understand, accept, and deliver any program management related task on time and in the required format.
- Update and manage PMO artifacts repository and archive.
Position Requirements:
- At least 3 years of experience in administration, project management, customer facing assignments, content data or records management or related experience in a related field.
- Strong in Microsoft Suite, including MS Visio.
- Knowledge of project management related documentation, instructions, policies, directives, and procedures.
- Knowledge of Agile scrum methodology and/ or Certified Scrum Master, Safe Agilist certification preferred.
- Knowledge of established project management methodology in IT or related domain.
- Knowledge of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in major IT or related projects.
- Experience in producing high-quality documentation using MS Office Suite using industry standard notations and formats.
- Experience with development of high-quality reports and presentations in MS PowerPoint.
- Conversant with creating business process workflows in MS Visio.
- Demonstrated experience with basic data organization, creating tables and charts in MS Excel, and conversant with established data labeling conventions.
- Demonstrated track record of delivering tasks and assignments in complete form and within deadline.
- Excellent communicator, team player, eager to learn new skills and mindful of response times.
- Keen eye for details, and meticulous with copy-editing documents and artifacts.
- CSM certification desired.
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in Business, Information Systems, or other related discipline.
This is a full-time position paying a base salary, full benefits, and has possible bonus potential based on merit and performance. To be considered for this position, please apply online with a cover letter and MS Word resume.
OST is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are considered for positions without regard to race, religion, gender, native origin, age, disability, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
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