Cyber Security Project Manager Associate

Job Description

This position is designated as 100% onsite and requires the selected candidate to work from the assigned AEP location during standard business hours. Due to the collaborative nature of the role, frequent interaction with leadership, team members, business partners, and other stakeholders is essential to achieving business objectives and maintaining operational effectiveness.

Essential Job Functions & Tasks

• Responsible for the execution of Security projects of small size with low risk and low complexity.
• Manages scheduling, pricing, and technical performance of small size Security projects and budgets.
• Employ skills, talents, and knowledge of project management frameworks to assure high quality products are delivered while optimizing the cost and delivery of value.
• Maintains complete transparency on the current state of the project, and maintains complete transparency on the forecast and actual cost and delivery.
• Enables and promotes team level continuous improvement activities that increase quality and optimize delivery of value.
• Provides coordination and effective communication to execute, monitor and control, and close projects in a safe, effective, economical, risk-balanced approach to obtain maximum customer satisfaction.
• Develops relationships and effectively communicates with all stakeholders including internal customers, external customers, team members, suppliers, contractors, vendors, and industry peers.

What You’ll Do

Responsibilities include governance, alignment, assurance, management, integration, optimization, tracking finances, infrastructure, planning, and improvement.

Demonstrates some awareness of key cyber security trends. With general guidance, considers alternative courses of action and selects best options according to intended security posture.

Identifies and resolves solutions to problems. Keeps cyber security as the focal point during all activity.

Verifies project scope and determines methods of managing and controlling for routine projects. Estimates, budgets and controls project cost for routine projects. Identifies and manages project risk.

Builds and coaches project team. Effectively communicates project details and status updates. Leads planning meetings and project updates with supportive role in stakeholder presentations. Provides clear and concise written reports.

Provides general guidance, instruction, and training to improve design, systems, procedures, schedules, and costs. Assists the project team in effective and timely performance of project work activities.

Education & Experience Requirements

• Education requirements: Bachelor Degree in Business, Computer Science, Construction or related field, OR Associates degree with 2 years of related business or technical/project management experience, OR High School Diploma/GED with 4 years of related business or technical/project management experience.
• Work Experience requirements: Minimum of 2 years business experience which includes work in one or more of these areas: project estimating, project controls, construction field experience, and/or comparable external experience in addition to any educational experience identified above.

Required Licenses/Certifications

• Preferred certification aligned with project management discipline: PMP for traditional waterfall project managers, PSM (Scrum.org) or CSM (ScrumAlliance) for Agile Scrum.

Additional Requirements

• Promotes continuous improvement within the project team.
• Communicates effectively with peers, business partners, and lower-level management.

Compensation

Compensation Grade: SP20-006
Compensation Range: $74,551.00 - $93,188.50

Physical Demands

S – Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.