Staff Advisor/Project Manager

Description

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Leidos is seeking a Project Manager to support the FAA's Office of Human Resource Management. The selected candidate will provide project management, communications and special initiative support across functional and programmatic areas within the Office of Compensation, Benefits Strategy and Worklife within the FAA's Office of Human Resource Management (AHR).

In this role, you will be responsible for developing and implementing communications strategies; identifying target audiences; drafting and editing targeted communications, including Broadcast messages, FOCUS articles, PowerPoint decks, emails, memos, and website content. The Project Manager will be required to conduct benchmarking with government agencies and industry counterparts.

The Project Manager will have the responsibility of planning projects and ensuring their completion within the specified task, schedule, and budget. They will independently develop executive-level communications and, where needed, presents material to FAA senior leadership. Other duties include analyzing business practices, conduct qualitative and quantitative data analysis, employee engagement activities, staffing, tracking budgets, business plan initiatives, awards, and contracts. Strong PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel skills are necessary.

Duties include:

• Analyzes new or improved business and management practices for application to agency programs or operations.
• Participates in/or conducts studies, group projects or surveys, analyzes findings, and makes recommendations which support assigned mission.
• Performs technical work using established guidance; identifies potential, actual problems and probable causes and provide recommendations for resolution, under general direction of the manager.
• Assignments include (but are not limited to): Uses office automation systems and various software packages to accomplish work.
• Gathers information, identifying and analyzing issues and provides recommendations for assigned programs.
• Utilizes established experience to maintain status of actions to ensure that deadlines are met; independently reviews correspondence/ documents/briefings for grammar, punctuation, format, and content before submitting for executive level signature.
• Performs administrative tasks (e.g., arranges meetings including space, time, telecommunication information, managing calendars, preparing travel arrangements, developing meeting agendas and background material, filing (manual and electronic and in accordance with governing regulatory procedures), maintaining inventory and ordering office supplies, etc.).
• May have frequent contacts with customers and external parties on routine matters such as gathering information, explaining regulations, and discussing the customers' situations. Independently coordinates with multiple stakeholders (internal and external).

Minimum Qualifications:

• Requires a BA degree and 12 years of prior relevant experience or Master's degree with 10 years of prior experience; specifically Human Resources.
• Prior FAA experience or other federal agencies.
• Knowledge of standard administrative practices/procedures, management studies, program development, analysis, and evaluation.
• Skill in supporting an executive/senior leader through the office/calendar management, travel/transportation reservations and arrangements, purchase card management and execution, monitoring and coordinating official correspondence, and receiving/screening calls and visitors to the office.
• Skill in using office automation, including time and attendance administration, customer service, calendar management and scheduling and file management (electronic and manual).
• Creating/editing word documents, retrieves specific data from identified database or Excel spreadsheets to develop pivot tables, and produce basic data visualizations (e.g., line and bar charts), electronic mail, managing and maintaining calendars, creating meeting invitations, desktop publishing and project tracking, etc.
• Ability to work effectively, compile and present information in a clear and concise manner. Ability to organize, plan, effectively multi-task in a fast-paced environment and successfully complete multiple assignments with conflicting deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP certification. SHRM Certification

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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