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OPEX000 : Department Head

OPEX000 : Department Head

JerseySTEMSan Diego, CA, US
2 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

  • 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 6 : 30pm)
  • Conduct / Attend virtual monthly Scrum of Scrum meetings (time varies each month)

Qualifications

  • 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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