OPEX000: Department Head
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This is a pro-bono volunteer position.
JerseySTEM is looking for talented professionals across our departments to commit time and energy as long-term engagement for our mission to provide STEM education to underrepresented middle school girls.
The Operational Excellence Department Head identifies and implements best practices and operational effectiveness/efficiencies for work management at JerseySTEM. They will manage a team of Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, JIRA SME, Slack SME and Process Specialist.
JerseySTEM is looking for talented professionals across our departments to commit time and energy as long-term engagement for our mission to provide STEM education to underrepresented middle school girls.
The Operational Excellence Department Head identifies and implements best practices and operational effectiveness/efficiencies for work management at JerseySTEM. They will manage a team of Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, JIRA SME, Slack SME and Process Specialist.
- Identifies work management improvements at JerseySTEM, ranging from the better use of the tools available to redesigning value stream workflows.
- Manage a team of 3-4 direct reports in charge of managing the scrum teams, creating JIRA & Slack user training along with creating process documentation.
- Create and work with teams to adopt best practices to be utilized throughout the organization.
- Streamline work & siloing to ensure scrum teams are working as efficiently as possible.
- Partner with HUCA to hire new replacements.
- Work to continuously improve and streamline JerseySTEM’s approach to successful utilize Scrum and Kanban boards.
- Represents OPEX at the Leadership Team.
- Participate in the leadership team activities of budgeting/planning and reporting.
- Conduct/Attend virtual leadership team meetings weekly (Tuesdays 630pm)
- Conduct/Attend virtual monthly Scrum of Scrum meetings (time varies each month)
- Genuine concern about/interest in solving the STEM education gender gap.
- Strong leadership/team building skills.
- Self Organization skills, leading others to understand their responsibilities and guide them into action.
- Encourage full transparency and communication.
- Open mindset that welcomes and encourages ideas from members of the team/organization.
- Trust in your reportees and treat them with no micromanaging.
- Good listener .
- Ability to mentor team members.
- Accepts frequent change and adopting these changes accordingly.
- Resourceful, can-do attitude.
- Experience leading a function (i.e. team, department manager, etc) and managing others.
- Comfort working in a ‘virtual organization’ with digital tools (G-Suite, Slack, Jira, salesforce).
- Would be a plus if candidate has flexible schedule to allow for flexibility when scheduling meetings.
- Agile/Scrum experience of 5-7 years.
- Agile Transformation experience.
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