by Ronald Barron | Dec 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Project Manager
LocationRemote / Flexible
Job Code171-2022
# of Openings1
Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Department: Programs – Training/Strategic Implementation Team
Location: Flexible/Remote
Reports To: Programs Department Training Director
Context: At the Sierra Club, we believe in the power of togetherness. Together, we remain committed to the fight for a healthy climate built on a foundation of environmental, racial, economic, and gender justice – a future where all people benefit from a healthy, thriving planet and a direct connection to nature. As the climate crisis and deeply entrenched systemic racism all fuel inequity, we will continue to fight for a bold, transformational agenda that recognizes the interconnectedness between our planet, our humanity, and our democracy. By recognizing that our destinies are tied, we continue to name that all things are fundamentally connected, and the overlap between ecology, race, gender, and representative government will move to either advance our collective humanity or to oppress it.
Sierra Club is comprised of staff across the country and a network of volunteer leaders and local chapters that support our grassroots engagement. We are also proud to be a unionized employer, with two labor unions representing more than half of our employees.
Scope: The Program Department Training Director and Training Team/Strategic Implementation of staff and volunteers work as a unit and with partners to design and deliver training and learning opportunities for Sierra Club staff and volunteers that are tailored to achieve program or unit goals and to achieve alignment on the indicators identified in the Strategic Framework as well as Sierra Club’s Multi-year Equity Plan and Building Power to Win Project.
The Senior Project Manager is responsible to plan, budget, contract, organize and monitor training events, including promotion, registration, follow-up, event management and on-site logistics, as well as developing content to share across the organization to publicize training events and resources and tracking training events happening in other parts of the organization and produces a calendar of Sierra Club Program Capacities Training. The Senior Project Manager supports the Training Director in managing the training unit’s budget, developing and managing the annual training calendar, tracking unit activities, metrics, and developing an annual report. The Senior Project Manager works with Training Team members and Strategic Implementation Team members on a portfolio of department-wide, training team or partner-specific priority projects. The Senior Project Manager supports the Training Director with project management of Training Team priority projects.
Job activities include but are not limited to:
- Managing projects and training events in partnership with training team members and in consultation with Sierra Club’s Finance and Operations Department. Managing training budget and reconciliation of budget to actual expenses on a quarterly basis for events. Coordinating operational requirements required to deliver training program events, including volunteer travel approval and expense approval of program event expenditures. Managing contracts and payment of invoices with external program partners. Researching and identifying training locations, acting as a liaison with facilities. Oversight of materials production for training events and team planning. Maintenance and updates of the Training Department Resource Hub: Campfire page, Training calendar as well as content creation.
- Directly work with the Training Director on annual planning and reporting and budget management. Work with the Training Director to facilitate strategic planning, team project management and tracking of project outcomes. Support Training Director with scheduling.
- Work in partnership with Training Team colleagues and staff within the Digital Department on projects to build or support tools and systems like our online learning system, Campfire Learning, the Salesforce-based CORE Membership data system, and to build and use pre and post-training evaluations. Perform post-training assessment to measure progress made towards goals.
The successful candidates must have the following skills and experiences:
- Equity Analysis and Practice: You are aware of your group identities and how they have shaped your life and experiences at work. You have an analysis of how racism and other forms of oppression in society impact relationships, systems and culture. You bring experience and skills for working effectively with colleagues across group identities and position/role.
- Experience project managing training programs collaboratively across organization departments and/or external partnerships.
- Experience working in operational capacity providing event and meeting logistical support and coordination
- Excellent time management and project management skills; ability to work well in a fast-moving environment
- Prior experience and demonstrated ability and effectiveness working with volunteers.
- Ability to travel – up to 20% a month.
The strongest candidates will also demonstrate the following experience, skills and competencies:
- Organizational skills to maintain records and track pre and post-facilitation feedback.
- Comfortable working remotely with Training Team or other project team members in a virtual team, including using Zoom, Hangout and other digital tools like Slack or Google spreadsheets to work together to reach project completion.
- Proficiency in Spanish or other languages is not a requirement but would be considered an asset.
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range for this position is $75,000-$85,000 depending on location/region.
This position is represented by a collective bargaining unit and is subject to the terms and conditions of the contract between Sierra Club and Progressive Workers Union or Sierra Employee Alliance, depending on location.
The Sierra Club offers a competitive salary package commensurate with skills and experience plus excellent benefits that include medical, dental, and vision coverage, and a retirement savings 401(k) plan.
This is a category 3 exempt, represented position.
Sierra Club is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization. Sierra Club employees are not eligible to participate in the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program.
Sierra Club values the expertise and talents of foreign nationals. Sierra Club sponsors both nonimmigrant and immigrant visas when certain criteria are met, based on immigration laws and organizational needs. Such sponsorship is at the discretion of the Department Head and Sierra Club Human Resources in consultation with the employee’s manager. The Sierra Club cannot guarantee the approval of a visa petition. The Sierra Club is an equal opportunity employer committed to workforce diversity.
To Apply
This position does not have an undergraduate education requirement. If you choose to include your education history, please remove your schools from your resume. You may leave your degree (e.g., “B.A. Philosophy”), but please remove any undergraduate and graduate school names.
This anonymous process is aimed at opening this opportunity to more candidates, reviewing applicants on performance assessments and mitigating bias in the decision-making process.
Lastly, we are intentionally not asking for a cover letter, so please do not send one in with your application.
Explore, enjoy and protect the planet.
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Services Operations Manager
at Ivanti
United States, Remote
Who We Are:
Ivanti’s platform makes it possible for employees to stay productive, secure and engaged wherever they are. That starts with us. With headquarters in Utah, offices in London and Paris and nearly 3,200 employees in 25 countries around the world, we are the Everywhere Workplace it’s a great time to work for Ivanti!
We anticipate our customers’ needs, we are highly responsive, and we deliver innovative solutions that exceed their expectations. Our mission is to be a global technology leader enabling organizations to thrive in the Everywhere Workplace automating the tasks that discover, manage, secure and service all of their IT assets.
Our Culture:
Teamwork is intrinsic to what we do and why we do it. We are accountable to each other and support one another. We provide opportunities to grow, learn, add value and thrive while also achieving new levels of performance. We treat all with appreciation, dignity, and respect. It is through diverse and inclusive hiring, decision-making, and commitment to our employees and partners that we will continue to build and deliver world-class solutions for our customers.
Why We Need you!
Oversee Ivanti’s Professional Services execution strategy and organizational processes. This role main duties implementing policies and strategies to improve productivity and efficiency levels, supporting the Professional Services management team in their execution of strategy including project bookings, utilization, resource capacity planning, and compensation. Will assist management and human resources in the recruiting and hiring process, and building an enjoyable company culture.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Collaboration across multiple cross-functional teams including Finance, Operations, and IT to align on goals, identify process and tool improvement ideas and opportunities
- Long-term planning to create initiatives that further Ivanti’s Professional Services overall goals
- Assessing and analyzing services resourcing; billing, utilization, margin, productivity and effectiveness
- Communicating with the senior officials about progressing, stalled, or shifting departmental priorities and projects
- Identifying potential problems and points of friction and working to find solutions in order to maximize efficiency and revenue
- Identifying opportunities to expand or shift course in order to take advantage of changes in the market
To Be Successful in The Role, You Will Have:
- Experience in Professional Services Organizations and/or Software Organization Operations
- Ability to analyze data across multiple services engagements including T&M, Fixed Fee, Milestone based engagements, and 3rd party subcontracted delivery
- Big picture thinking, which is key to addressing top-level concerns and finding the best path forward from all of the available data
- Interpersonal skills an Operations Manager must communicate with both executives and staff employees in order to create and administer policy
- A thorough understanding of financial and budgeting processes and principles, which allows the Operations Manager to assess the company’s earnings and spending to find areas for improvement
- Strong personal and professional judgment, which are invaluable skills for a role that makes hiring decisions as well as in finding the best solution to organizational dilemmas
- Adaptability, enabling the Operations Manager to respond quickly to a shifting reality and adjust initiatives and priorities accordingly
- Organizational skills and the flexibility to jump from priority to priority, which are essential to a role that juggles a variety of functions and projects
Organizational Culture
Ivanti provides a supportive environment for motivated individuals looking to grow their careers and realize high earnings potential. Join a challenging, technology focused environment, earn a competitive salary and benefits package, receive the training you need to stay ahead of the curve, and work in a casual, smart, and fast-paced organization.
At Ivanti, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Ivanti believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
If you require special assistance for the best interview experience, please contact us at recruiting@ivanti.com.
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Lead Analyst
US Remote
Brand: Vista
Department: Data & Analytics
Vista’s Data and Analytics (DnA) organization is working to make our company one of the world’s most well-known and successful data-driven companies by optimizing value from our data assets. To achieve this, we partner cross functionally to deliver jaw-dropping customer value.
Do you want to be at the intersection of art and science? We are looking for an experienced analyst that will take the lead to generate insights on how we can offer jaw dropping customer value within our Do It Yourself (DIY) design experience. Join us on this journey as we take design to the next level!
What You Will Do:
- Be a trailblazer to transform Vista into one of the most iconic data driven companies and think outside of the box on how we can take design to the next level. You will leverage your entrepreneurial spirit, critical thinking, and analytics experience to generate bold, innovative perspectives on what and how we deliver.
- Enhance data driven decision making within a cross-functional product team, working closely with product management, technology, and user experiences. You’re an active listener and strong communicator, enabling you to collaborate across the team while proactively bringing your trailblazing ideas to the team.
- Operate in a fast paced, agile environment that focuses on transforming the design experience incrementally, thereby requiring creative thinking and flexibility to achieve robust data driven decision making in the long run.
- Continue to sharpen your analytics skillset by crafting and executing on experiments that you defined with your product team, as well as delivering data exploration, visualization, and self-service reports.
- Take on challenges and tackle sophisticated problems, from data wrangling to process improvements, driven by your innate go-getter ambition. Design is a sophisticated, non-linear journey, so both the data and customer experience solutions will require a high level of sophistication.
Your Qualifications:
At Vista, we are striving to hire individuals that add new insights and perspectives to our teams and improve our culture. No matter your background or work experience, we strongly encourage you to apply—even if you feel that you don’t meet the exact requirements or have the same qualifications. You might be a great candidate for this or other opportunities.
- You are an innovator and entrepreneur, proactively bringing your perspectives and ideas to the table
- You are a team player and collaborator, with deep experience partnering with cross-functional team members who come to the table with different perspectives and have a proven record of developing creative approaches to solving problems
- You are experienced in weighing pragmatism against robust measurement to craft and complete experiments (e.g. A/B/n test vs. pre-post analysis, learning agenda priorities)
- You have excellent organizational skills, strong attention to detail and ability to deliver on projects supporting multiple business partners
- You are a well-rounded e-commerce analyst, with strong competency in:
- Core skills, such as SQL, A/B/n test design and end to end execution, site tracking exploration
- Understand statistical concepts and translate it to business insights
- Visualization tools, such as Tableau, Looker
- Site analytics tool, such as Adobe Analytics or Google Analytics
- Testing tools, such as Optimizely or Google Optimize
- You have 6+ years in an eCommerce environment to showcase all the qualifications above
Nice to Have:
- Proven experience leading exploratory analysis, using statistical techniques to find substantial patterns and trends in the data
- Experience with Objectives and Key Results (OKR) methodology
- Experience with Agile methodology and use of Jira to handle work
- Other programming languages (e.g., Python, R)
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
There is a lot to love about working at Vista. We are an award winning Remote-First company. We’re an inclusive community. We’re growing (which means you can too). And to help orient us all in the same direction, we have our Vista Behaviors which exemplify the behavioral attributes that make us a culturally strong and high-performing team.
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Digital Engagement and Wellbeing Client Success Director
Virtual North America
The Alight Digital Engagement and Wellbeing Client Success Director at Alight Solutions will be a well-diversified professional services consultant with key core competencies in the following areas: deepening and expanding revenue-focused opportunities with current clients, delivering the business product from a values-driven perspective, reporting results based on data and analysis, and maintain overall accountability for meeting requirements and exceeding client expectations. The candidate will be a highly analytical, curious, project management-centered, organized, and proactive individual. This person will work directly with clients and offer sound and feasible opportunities and solutions that best meet their engagement and wellbeing needs. The candidate will be responsible for monitoring and delivering client-centric outcomes of Alight s digital engagement platform (Alight Worklife ) and wellbeing solutions as well as expanding client revenue. This person will be a key member of large, complex (cross functional) client teams and client engagements.
Roles and Responsibilities
Client Relationship & Development:
- Responsible for ensuring the Alight digital engagement platform & wellbeing solution is providing the maximum amount of value, leading to customer success.
- Key point of contact for client communications and relationships where main responsibilities will be ability to drive long term value, sustain the client relationship, and increase on-going revenue and client satisfaction.
- Solutions-oriented and opportunity-focused professional experienced in wellbeing, health benefits and wealth (401K/ defined benefit) product & solution offerings, comfortable remaining agile across these domains with confidence to speak to these product offerings, answer client feedback and questions, and champion enhancement opportunities where appropriate.
- Strong persuasion, influence, negotiation, and consulting skills to drive the highest value for clients, measured by key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Provide oversight of the implementation process for assigned accounts and serve as an expert on all Alight Worklife engagement and wellbeing solutions ensuring alignment of best practices and Alight’s point of view for solution adoption
- Maintain a strong working knowledge of all aspects of all Alight’s wellbeing solutions and Alight’s Worklife engagement platform.
- When Alight s wellbeing solutions are in scope partner with Alight’s Consumer Experience and Product Engagement team to develop promotions and competitions for each assigned account to positively influence wellbeing program participation and engagement in accordance with the clients’ contracts.
Reporting/Client Success:
- Collaborates with internal reporting teams to ensure value and return on investment (ROI) is clearly communicated to clients to sustain confidence in the digital engagement platform & wellbeing solution set where analysis and consulting with internal teams will remain critical to deliver highest customer success.
- Serves as Subject Matter Expert on Alight Worklife platform and solutions analytics and is responsible for training assigned clients on best practices for utilizing the tool as well as any enhancements.
- Prepare and deliver reviews for each account. Perform analytical reviews of client results and develop strategic recommendations and action plans aligned with client s business priorities.
- Strong analysis, consulting and project management skills specific within the wellbeing, health and finance wealth spaces; seeks to identify and influence new opportunities and solutions based on client s specific needs and feedback.
- Uses customer success metrics to drive continued value and growth within the business, where opportunities are realized through demonstrated work products and continued account expansion opportunities
Cross-Business Collaboration:
- Serve as a customer advocate within Alight and interface with cross functional teams to develop, implement and drive strategies to meet client requirements and enhance the solution offering.
- Serves as a consultant, mentor, and guide to create and sustain a cohesive, opportunity and revenue focused organization to achieve the highest return on investment (ROI) for clients.
- Drives customer success through remaining agile, working with teams across the business that are project management focused, deepening client relationships, providing analysis where appropriate, and serving as a subject matter expert (SME) within health and finance domains.
- Promotes a values-driven mentality and consults with colleagues to ensure the best communication and presentation is brought to clients, where the communicated value of the product remains the central focus.
- Ability to persuade, influence, and negotiate around the core objectives of the business: revenue generation, client success and satisfaction, and client retention.
**This job description is not a full representation of all the roles and responsibilities of the Alight Digital and Wellbeing Client Success Manager, as this role is expected to continually evolve as business needs change. This individual is expected to remain agile and willing to embrace the uncertainty and ambiguity associated with this role, where flexibility and adaptability will be key factors for success.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 + years experience in customer satisfaction or customer success roles, with proven ability to drive value and results by exceeding customer success metrics.
- Industry experience in wellbeing, health, wealth, health technology, or Human Capital Management (HCM), with specific focus on product optimization, product opportunity identification and overall product management.
- Experience working with digital engagement platforms.
- Experience at a digital healthcare or wellbeing firm.
- Experienced in revenue focused roles where Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and Return on Investment (ROI) metrics were used to measure success and performance.
- Comfortable helping persuade, influence, and negotiate with key stakeholders to drive long-term business success; brings fresh consulting perspectives to internal initiatives and contributes to an agile team.
- Experienced in opportunity and solutions identification to drive the highest revenue for the business.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Succeeds in team environments while also able to deliver value independently.
- Strong ability to present to clients where requested, with the flexibility to contribute to creating digital solutions.
- Experience in analytics, project management, and consulting.
- Technically savvy with key experience in data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, etc.), Microsoft products (Azure Devops, Outlook, PowerPoint), Atlassian/JIRA, and cloud-based technologies, Salesforce is a plus.
- An understanding of formal project management approaches such as Project Management Institute (PMI), Lean Six Sigma (LSS).
Education
- Bachelor of Science/Arts (required).
- Master of Science/Arts in Communications/English, Finance, Business/Business Management, Marketing, Finance or Healthcare (preferred).
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
UX Designer
Full-Time in United States – Remote OK – Mid Level – Product
OpenDrives makes high performance data storage a reality for our customers using our unique combination of hardware and software. Our customers range from Hollywood blockbusters, to medical imaging specialists, to academia, and everything in between. At OpenDrives we are building next-generation data storage solutions for high-performance workflows.
About You:
OpenDrives is looking to formalize our UX function. In this role you’ll be collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams to bring experiences to life. Candidates should have experience working with software applications while engaging both users and the product development team.
Responsibilities:
- Evangelize UX within the organization, guide engineering and key stakeholders to engage in UX best practices
- Take projects from concept to completion by gathering and evaluating user requirements, creating wireframes, mockups, user flows, prototypes, process flows and design specs to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
- Conduct discovery activities to define high-level user journeys identifying key features and capabilities needed
- Communicate clear and compelling ideas, designs and solutions to guide development sprints as well as to inform a wide range of key stakeholders
- Use and be an advocate for the human-centered design process, as well as act as a design generalist on the team
- Work with multi-disciplinary teams and consistently promote active collaboration, co-creation and continual alignment while building close relationships with customers and key collaborators
- Promote and educate others on new interface guidelines and design patterns
- Create expansive designs for all users; advocate for accessibility, encouraging product and engineering management to prioritize accessible features and bug fixes
- Help define timelines, facilitate progress, and ensure all projects successfully reach their goals
What You Bring:
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher or combination of relevant education, experience, and training
- 3+ years of software product design experiences, preferably in data storage or data services
- 2+ years experience applying human-centered design approaches, methods and tools to solve complex problems
- 1+ years of hands-on user interface or interaction design
- Expertise in Sketch, Figma or Adobe CS, and prototyping tools
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with a small cross-functional team
- Be a strong collaborator who embraces change, designs with curiosity and empathy, and brings a positive, optimistic attitude to the team
- Tolerance for ambiguity and superpower for translating it into organized and clear steps
Benefits:
We have some awesome perks if you want to work with us.
- Incredible vacation policy and flexible schedule
- Great health, dental, and vision insurance
- Employer and Employee Paid Life Insurance AD&D
- Voluntary Short & Long Term Disability
- Flexible Spending Account/Health Savings Account Options
- Employee Assistance Program
- 401(k)
- Options for hybrid remote/office work, or full remote
- A culture of empathy and empowerment
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