Senior Assistant Project Administrator – Active DoD Secret clearance required (Falls Church, VA)

Our client  seeks a Sr/Assistant Project Administrator to contribute to the DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s (CDAO) AI Talent 2.0 program.  CDAO is responsible for the establishment of the strategy, best practices, architectures, and tools to ensure that the DoD has reliable, ethical, and trusted AI-enabled systems.  This position will play a key role in CDAO’s goal of maximizing continuous iteration / continuous development, application of responsible AI concepts, and enterprise scalability. Systems work will further comply with DoD policy as it pertains to risk-managed access to data, active collaboration in the industry/academic/government data and AI communities, and efficient acquisitions and procurement strategies.

• Demonstrate initiative and be a self-starter, able to work in a highly collaborative, virtual, and versatile environment handling an array of duties and responsibilities with particular focus on organization, coordination, process management, and multi-tasking abilities.
• Create, maintain, and organize the division knowledge management and documentation system to ensure effective information communication, processes, and transparency of work.
• Build strategies and documentation on organizational processes for information sharing, task management, onboarding, and coordination to share across larger program.
• Manage user access, role requests, and onboarding across platforms and software systems.
• Ensure the multi-organizational team adopts and follows the division knowledge management and documentation system.
• Suggest more efficient ways to run the Division and troubleshoot malfunctions.
• Understand Division priorities to effectively manage Division leadership’s time in meetings and prioritizing events that must happen vs optional engagements.
• Assist in preparing and managing presentations and reports.

Qualifications:

• Active DoD Secret Clearance
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to proactively engage members both inside and outside of your team
• Experience working with project management applications, like Gitlab or Jira, is preferred, experience with Gitlab is strongly preferred
• Experience implementing documentation and knowledge management systems for agile software development projects and/or Division level corporate groups
• Great technical writing skills
• Knowledge of the Agile development process
• Experience working on large software development programs. Experience is working with multi-organizational programs is preferred
• Experience working within agile frameworks, such as Scaled Agile Framework
• Experience working within high technology areas, such as computer science, data science, autonomy, and artificial intelligence