OPEX000 : Department Head

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