OPEX000: Department Head

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.

• 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)

• 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.