Data Science Project Manager

Location : IC: OD Street: 13 South Dr Bldg: NIHBC 13 Room: 211 City: Bethesda State & Zip: MD 20892

Weekly Hours FT: 3040 hours per week Total No. of Hours : 30

Overall Position Summary and Objectives

The purpose of this position is to serve as a project manager for a data science team supporting NIHs CUP and FCIB. The team structure is based on a software development team model and will implement a modified Agile methodology. The position will be responsible for managing creating assigning and monitoring tasks within Asana and Jira. The position will require coordinating with the Branch Chief and team members to develop project proposals timelines and deliverables. The role will require developing the branchs project intake and ticketing system within Jira and working with the Branch Chief to develop a project SOP for the branch. The role will require experience with Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) development lifecycle.

Min Education Bachelors

Resume Max Pages 3

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Certifications & Licenses

• Project Management Professional (PMP)

Skills (Ranked By Priority)

1. Project management website content management

2. Meeting coordination

3. Executive level support

4. Meeting minutes/summary reports

5. Data analysis

6. Budget

1 2 3 4 5 represents priority rankings where 1 is highest priority and 5 is lowest priority of those ranked

Software

• SharePoint
• MS Office
• Asana
• Jira
• Github

Field of Study

• Management Information Systems and Statistics
• Human Resources and Personnel Management
• Business Management and Administration
• Computer Administration Management and Security
• Computer and Information Systems
• Computer Programming and Data Processing
• Computer Science
• Mathematics and Computer Science
• Statistics and Decision Science
• Electrical Engineering
• Engineering and Industrial Management
• Computer Engineering
• General Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies
• Miscellaneous Engineering
• Miscellaneous Engineering Technologies
• MultiDisciplinary or General Science
• Physical Sciences
• Physics
• Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Statement of Work Details

Develops project management documentation.

• Conduct staff interviews and discussions to determine the scope purpose and objectives of project.
• Prepare project documentation to include charter schedule resource plans and budgets.
• Creates project in designated project management software and ensure all necessary staff have access. 4
• Recommend and support routine project management meetings updates and prepare a variety of status reports and dashboards.
• Assist staff coordinate project management activities to include routine meetings and development of reports. 5

Monitors and reports progress to project owners.

• Conduct projectrelated activities including developing needed materials powerpoint presentations arranging discussions andfacilitating interactions.
• Coordinate track and complete action items and report progress to project owners.
• Support internal resources plan and implement activities in support of project in accordance with project priorities and schedule.
• Prepare project dashboards and summaries milestone status and updates to work breakdown structure as necessary.

Conducts project analysis and reports to upper management.

• Prepare progress reports summaries descriptions and other materials to communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop summaries of project status and performance for review with upper management.
• Measure project performance using designated systems tools and techniques and report findings to upper management.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation library using designated applications and tools.

Develops and tracks project budgets.

• Assist project owners conduct enterprise resource planning and assist with annual budget formulation.
• Assist project owners manage financial aspects of project to include monitoring budget projecting future spending and completing appropriate financial requests and accounting documentation.
• Establish project metrics to measure and evaluate project cost and performance.

Researches project management best practices and new industry standards.

• Research new trends in project management and related project management software and applications to improve project management efficiency.
• Coordinate and conduct internal management studies and provide trend analyses to project owners.
• Stay abreast of project management certification standards and industry principles through professional associations and implements practices.
• Perform literature reviews of related projects to identify new approaches to improving project management.

Provides subject matter expertise and support to other project managers.

• Review other project management plans and recommend improvements.
• Provide expert review and recommendation regarding other project management plans.
• Provide researchers and nonproject staff presentations on appropriate project management practices.

Develops overarching program and project management standards to ensure consistency and quality.

• Develop project management standard operating procedures (SOPs) based on analysis of all program and project requirements.
• Develop standardized project management templates tools resources guides and training materials and coach project managers ontheir effective use.
• Establish standardized project tracking and review processes and workflows to include meeting formats agendas and presentationapproaches.
• Conduct project management audits to evaluate processes and procedures and develop corrective action or improvement plans inaccordance with approved standards.

Reviews and evaluates project management documentation.

• Review evaluate and provide recommendations for improvement of project requirements to include the scope purpose and objectives. Review evaluate and provide recommendations for improvement of project management software and develop investment strategies. Review evaluate and provide recommendations for improvement of routine project management meetings updates and preparation of a variety of status reports and dashboards.
• Develop and implement project monitoring and evaluation best practices.
• Compare and evaluate project requirements to other projects and recommend changes and improvements to project owners toovercome redundancies overlaps or opportunities to coordinate.

Reviews and evaluates progress to project owners.

• Evaluate projectrelated activities and documentation and make corrections and improvements.
• Review evaluate and provide recommendations for improvement of project tracking and progress reporting.
• Review evaluate and provide recommendations for improvement of project scheduling practices.
• Review evaluate and provide recommendations for improvement of project dashboards and summaries milestone status and updatesand work breakdown structures.
• Conduct analysis of project activities and performance and report findings to project owners and recommend corrective actions. Provide project management expertise monitoring and tracking multiple ongoing projects and provide critical insights to project owners.

Reviews and evaluates project budgets.

• Review evaluate and provide recommendations for improvement of enterprise resource planning and annual budget formulation.
• Evaluate and implement improvements to processes for establishing project budgets and predicting future spending.
• Log project expenditures within designated tracking tool and report balances to project owners.
• Evaluate project cost and performance against metrics and report status and recommend corrective actions to project owners.
• Review and assess allocations and expenditures within budget system for accuracy and completeness.
• Provide project management expertise to ensure accurate and consistent project monitoring and tracking to inform project ownerdecision making.

Acts as a liaison with other agencies and organizations when necessary for project completion.

• Coordinate conduct and participate in important offsite activities and discussions relevant to project management activities andgoals.
• Provide subject matter expertise on special crosscutting and ad hoc projects attend special regional annual and ad hoc meetings andparticipate on working groups 3
• Build and support effective communication strategies for the Division and public presentations of the program and its constituentactivities. 2
• Maintain coordination and communication between research operations program management project stakeholders team membersand subcontractors. 1