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The Project Manager, Training & Certification is a full-time position responsible for facilitating effective, efficient cross-departmental project implementations for the Training & Certification group at the Linux Foundation. This group develops and delivers training courses and certification exams that require extensive collaboration between its different subteams as well as external departments and third-party vendors. This role reports to the Director of Operations, Training & Certification, and drives accountability and execution by implementing project management best practices on communication, scoping, delivery tracking, etc.

The Project Manager’s primary responsibilities are as follows:

• Helps clarify project goals early on and facilitates the creation of a robust project plan

• Ensure adherence to the best practices and use of standardized tooling (JIRA, Confluence, etc)

• Defines scope, resources, and schedule based on high-level objectives and milestones 

• Facilitates ongoing communication between team members to ensure alignment and understanding of who should be doing what, by when, and why

• Identifies resource gaps and surfaces for decision 

• Implements Scrum across the team (defining epics, stories) 

• Drives project success: running regular sprints, managing schedules, and ensuring quality and productive meetings 

• Conduct post-mortems to identify opportunities to improve

• Regularly communicates status to stakeholders

Competencies

• Passionate about delivering results 

• Collaborative: works effectively with others and keeps eye on the overall goals of the Foundation

• Positive: happy to face a challenge and marshall resources towards a goal

• Responsiveness: values being responsive to others’ requests, especially members

• Efficiency: able to move projects from started to completed

• Communication: proactive communicator who understands how to communicate results and areas where she/he needs help to manage

• Conscientious: keeps meticulous records and always follows up to ensures tasks don’t get dropped

• Trustworthy: Ability to work closely with team and earn and keep his/her trust

• Astute: Uses sound judgment to make decisions that improve revenue or reduce costs

• Quality: Focuses on creating quality in everything he/she does: plans, written communication

• Strategic: always on the lookout for new opportunities to make the LF better

The Linux Foundation is an all-remote workforce that hires world-class talent. We are as passionate about providing a flexible and supportive work culture as we are about open-source software. Collaboration is in our DNA, and we pride ourselves on being able to work closely together while not being tied to an office. We offer exceptional benefits - e.g., top of the line healthcare/dental/vision plans, unlimited PTO, and 100% 401k match up to the IRS-defined limit per year.

The Linux Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.