Project Manager (IT PMO)

Girl Scouts of the USA is a leadership development organization for girls, seeking a Project Manager (IT) for their Technology Project Management Organization. The role involves planning and executing development work, managing tech-related workstreams, and ensuring effective communication with business partners to deliver quality solutions for digital platforms and infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Work with business and product owners to scope functional and technical requirements, communicate to relevant stakeholders, and work with teams to deliver them in a successful and timely manner. Create executive-level frameworks and documents to take users ‘on the journey.’
• Manage intra- and inter-team dependencies, highlight project blockers and risks, and work with cross-functional teams to resolve them
• Partner with business owners, internal teams, and stakeholders to define project success metrics and roadmap, develop implementation plans and milestones, and measure against metrics
• Effectively prioritize project deliverables. Direct and be accountable for organizational change management within relevant program domains
• Establish and implement project communication plans, providing status updates. Collect, analyze, and summarize information and trends as needed to prepare project status reports

Requirements:

• Experience with leading projects start to finish in fast‑moving environments, including defining project goals, scope, milestones, and success measures and applying fit‑for‑purpose Waterfall and Agile project management methodologies and tools
• Experience with technical architecture documentation and applying that knowledge to project planning and delivery decisions
• Experience project managing applications and architecture across a wide variety of platforms such as Customer-facing Applications, Infrastructure, Security, Platform Engineering
• Demonstrated capability to contribute to executive-level strategy and frameworks, using project management tools to track, govern, and communicate IT deliverables and the ability to report out status to stakeholders and the executive team
• Ability to consistently influence and drive alignment, decision‑making, and accountability across technical and non‑technical stakeholders, ensuring clear ownership of outcomes
• Proven strength in anticipating and removing impediments, managing escalations, and making sound tradeoffs that balance business priorities with technical constraints amidst ambiguity
• Experience overseeing projects, programs, and initiatives to ensure consistency with organizational standards while evolving processes to improve efficiency and scalability
• Experience managing budgets, resourcing, and external vendors to support end‑to‑end planning, prioritization, and delivery within scope, schedule, and cost
• Demonstrated effectiveness in collaborating across IT PMO, engineering, operations, applications, security, finance, procurement, marketing, customers, and partners to deliver fit‑for‑purpose solutions
• Expertise in leading Agile practices and ceremonies, managing multiple priorities under time pressure, and adapting approach in ambiguous and shifting environments
• Mindset of clear, empathetic communication with a focus on translating complex technical concepts for diverse audiences (including executive audiences) while fostering trust, shared understanding, and ownership
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Wrike, MS Teams and other related project management and collaboration tools
• Competency in PowerPoint or similar presentation software
• Competency in Microsoft Excel or similar software
• Competency in Microsoft Power BI or similar software
• Office 365 or similar suites
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum of five (5) years' work experience, with at least three (3) years of direct project management experience
• PMP
• Certification in agile (CSM)