Why Cadre5?

• Working with highly talented team members
• Paid over-time
• 3 weeks’ vacation
• Excellent medical insurance, up to 100% paid by employer and contributions to HSA Plans

• Planning and Budgeting - Determines requirements and best approach for project management methodology for multiple projects, develops work breakdown structures, Project Management Plans and/or backlog feature and story definitions, project tasking and sequencing for project schedules and/or serves as scrum master, develops project budget and resource plans with the sponsor and finance officers.
• Leadership - Assembles, manages, and directs project teams to accomplish project goals and deliverables. Ensures projects are delivered on time, within scope and budget, and are of acceptable quality. Assists and mentors team members on methodology including agile.
• Communication – Ensures projects execute adequate communication plans, all stakeholders are appropriately informed of project status and project teams have project information and resources to succeed. Communicates, collaborates, and Interfaces with project sponsors, ITSD leadership, subject matter experts (SMEs), and other resources. Gains trust and forms relationships with leadership, sponsors, principal investigators and project team members.
• Risk Management - Identifies, diagnoses, and consults on project risks and issues., Identifies mitigation strategies or corrective actions, reports and escalates as appropriate.
• Project Salvage - Takes leadership, assesses project risks/issues/problems, implements corrective actions, escalates to leadership as appropriate, and establishes new project baselines.
• Mentoring - Advocates for project management by providing information, recommendations, guidance, and assistance to the IT and research staff regarding PM best practices to elevate overall staff project management knowledge.
• Reporting - Prepares and presents presentations, reports and dashboards, providing recommendations and findings on matters relating to projects.

• Education - Bachelor’s degree preferably in computer science, business management, information systems, or related disciplines.
• Experience – Five years relevant project management experience with at least two years or more in a project management role, as well as an understanding of IT hardware, software, databases, user interfaces, identity and access management, information security and cyber security systems, data science, analytics, and research.
• IT Experience - Demonstrated practical experience in IT project work, applications development, and major infrastructure/technology deployments and upgrades.
• IT PM Experience - Knowledge and experience managing application software development and/or implementation projects utilizing best practice lifecycle processes such as Agile. Must have a thorough understanding of project management methodologies and practical application managing IT projects including developing business cases, defining scope and deliverables, scheduling and cost estimating, budgeting, communications, stakeholder management, status reporting, change management, quality assurance and retrospectives/lessons learned.
• Security Clearance - Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q Clearance. This position is a Workplace Substance Abuse Program (WSAP) testing designated position which requires passing a pre-placement drug test and participation in an ongoing random drug testing program in which employees are subject to being randomly selected for testing. The occupant of this position will also be subject to an ongoing requirement to report to ORNL any drug-related arrest or conviction or receipt of a positive drug test result.

• Advanced Education - An advanced degree in project management, business management, computer science, information systems, or related discipline.
• Advanced IT PM Experience – Experience with IT specific project management methods, such as Agile and its associated processes.
• Agile Certification(s) - Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certification, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Project Management Institute Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or equivalent.
• Information Security - Information security or cyber security experience, education and/or certifications.
• Self-Directed - Ability to organize and coordinate work on a variety of assignments with minimal supervision.
• Teamwork - Demonstrated interpersonal skills working in a matrix/collaborative environment with a broad range of individuals, particularly including scientists, engineers, managers, administrators, and technicians.
• Communicator - Strong communicator at all levels of an organization, as well as to external stakeholders.
• PM Mentor - Demonstrated ability to mentor project staff members in the incorporation of project management best practices and to correctly tailor practices to meet situational needs.
• Tools –experience with Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Project, the Atlassian suite of tools, Elastic and ServiceNow.