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OPEX000: Department Head

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Offer summary

Qualifications:

Genuine concern for STEM education gender gap, Great leadership and team-building skills. Strong self-organization abilities..

Key responsabilities:

  • Identify and implement work management improvements at JerseySTEM
  • Manage a team to adopt best practices, streamline work processes
  • Represent OPEX at Leadership Team meetings, budgeting/planning activities
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JerseySTEM Education Startup https://www.jerseystem.org
11 - 50 Employees
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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.

Required profile

Experience

Industry :
Education
Spoken language(s):
English
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Other Skills

  • Adaptability
  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • Resourcefulness
  • Team Building
  • Mentorship

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