ICF seeks a Junior Project Manager to support the Child Welfare Capacity Building Center for States (the Center) contract with the Children’s Bureau. The purpose of the Center is to support and enable child welfare agencies across the country to build on and expand their capacities to serve their communities and to keep children safe and families strong. 

The Junior Project Manager will support several areas of the Center as project management and project coordination needs arise. They will also work with the Operations Project Manager to further develop the Center’s Project Management team, ensuring consistent processes, templates, and training support across the project.

The successful candidate is flexible with demonstrated experience of managing and coordinating multiple projects and tasks as they arise.

This position is fully remote.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide project management or project coordination support to Center teams, alongside the Operations Project manager.
• Support the development of a project management body of knowledge, including standardization of tools, protocols, and processes, used to achieve a consistent project management approach across the project.
• Support the Center training team plan, execute and monitor the development and completion of required staff training.
• Collaborate with the project teams to track and report issues, and areas of improvement.
• Utilize appropriate project management tools to support the ongoing work of the project team and to identify any potential risks and corresponding solutions to keep the work on time and within budget and scope.
• Maintain project documentation using an electronic workspace that is accessible to all team members. This includes meeting minutes, work plans, written deliverables, and any other relevant project materials.
• Provide feedback about challenges and successes, and troubleshoot any barriers encountered within the assigned tasks.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications

• Associate’s degree in social work, public administration, or related field.  
• 3+ years of professional project management or coordination experience, including managing project schedules, managing multiple tasks concurrently, and organization of project documents.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong stakeholder and partner relationships, including balancing multiple perspectives/needs.
• Understanding of Project Management terms and processes based on PMI (Project Management Institute) methodology.

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, public administration, or related field.  
• Experience in training and technical assistance (T&TA) and/or capacity building provision in a human services field, preferably child welfare.
• Project management or coordination experience for a child welfare project.
• Proficient with project management tools such as Smartsheet and PowerBI.

Professional Skills

• Team player with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and maintain high-quality results.
• Ability to work and communicate with a diverse audience
• Great organization and time management skills.
• Excellent verbal, interpersonal, and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated, outstanding level of professionalism in providing administrative support, including ability to exercise good judgment, discretion, tact, and diplomacy.

• Ability to apply detailed knowledge of organizational procedures to make independent decisions
• Strong attention to detail and ability to produce error-free work products
• Excellent problem-solving skills with ability to analyze situations, identify existing or potential problems and recommend solutions
• Proficient with M365  applications (e.g. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Proficient with virtual communication platforms (Teams, Zoom, Mural, etc.)

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