What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at A P Ventures, LLC?
Title: Project Manager
Location: Remote / Facilities in Kansas City, MO, or Washington, DC
Company Background
A P Ventures, LLC (APV) is an innovative Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) providing services to Government customers at the federal and state levels in three key focus areas: High-End IT Consulting, Emerging Technology and Training Solutions, and Human Capital Services. Established in 2007, APV has completed 70 prime contracts and currently oversees 25 task orders, consistently achieving high client satisfaction, CPARS, and customer accolades. Our success is fueled by our skilled and motivated workforce, reflected in our impressive employee retention rate exceeding 90%. APV has a wide portfolio of contracts and “Best-in-Class” contract vehicles, including GSA MAS, OASIS Small Business, and 8(A) Pool 1, CIO-SP3 SB & 8(a) across all functional areas, HCaTS, and several other industry-specific BPA and IDIQs.
APV is a mature company dedicated to quality and exceptional delivery to meet its clients’ missions. We understand personnel are an essential part of this. We hire the best and take care of the people who come to work for us. We continue to maintain employee satisfaction and have a high retention rate, well above the industry average for our small business peers. We do this through our corporate practice that emphasizes on employee satisfaction through the three “C’s” – Culture, Compensation, and Career Development.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage and support project team members, confirm understanding of roles, review performance, and support training for growth.
- Provide leadership to development team and customers on solutions and coding, facilitate decision making, and provide technical guidance.
- Conduct research and provide recommended solutions.
- Communicate with customers to ensure up to date alignments across environments.
- Lead overall content design, strategy and governance for Customer website end users, planning for short- and long-term continual improvements.
- Manage staffing and work with COR to onboard and offboard.
- Work with CO and COR to kick off new contract, review and confirm requirements, track requirements throughout the life of the contract.
- Ensure contractual obligations are met, discuss successes and issues with the customers and COR, work to determine solutions and resolve.
- Work with Product Owner (PO), Business Owner (BO) and other stakeholders to support strategic decisions.
- Respond to USDA audit requests with detailed information with fast turnaround on program historical and upcoming levels of effort, budget breakdowns, staff skill sets/technology capabilities, etc.
- Follow SAFe Agile approach.
- Apply a variety of technologies for the best solutions and performance.
- All other duties as assigned.
Experience Requirements:
- Experience in Drupal 10 and large public-facing Federal sites, including solving complex platform delivery challenges.
- Experience of User-centered design with external customers.
- Experience and understanding of SAFe® and Agile methodology.
- Experience with High Impact Service Provider sites (HISP Sites) in Federal such as with USDA
- Experience with and Understanding of the rural customer base.
- Experience with cloud migration, support, and development.
- Experience working with and briefing executive and senior leadership at agency and bureau level.
- User/customer experience testing expertise with large samples.
- Experience of Delivering work products conformant with the revised standards of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.
- Understanding of experience with application of Executive Order on Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery to Rebuild Trust in Government.
- Knowledge of DevOps Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices.
Technology/specialized skillsets including, but not limited to:
- Project and ticket system - Jira/Confluence.
- Drupal (front and back end), PHP, API's, HTML, JavaScript, Symfony, Vue.js, jQuery, React.js, ElasticSearch, Python, Docker, Rancher, azure, theming/pattern libraries, ANDI, SiteImprove, Google Analytics, Jira; Pattern libraries.
- USWDS principles, human centered design (HCD), content strategy, information architecture, UX, visual design, user experience research/analysis, SEO, HotJar, Optimal Workshop, Sketch, Invision, Adobe creative suite, design systems, etc.
About A P Ventures
A P Ventures is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, or marital status. Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disability candidates are encouraged to apply. Qualified military veterans are encouraged to apply.
