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From day one at NREL, you’ll connect with coworkers driven by the same mission to save the planet. By joining an organization that values a supportive, inclusive, and flexible work environment, you’ll have the opportunity to engage through our ten employee resource groups, numerous employee-driven clubs, and learning and professional development classes.
NREL supports inclusive, diverse, and unbiased hiring practices that promote creativity and innovation. By collaborating with organizations that focus on diverse talent pools, reaching out to underrepresented demographics, and providing an inclusive application and interview process, our Talent Acquisition team aims to hear all voices equally. We strive to attract a highly diverse workforce and create a culture where every employee feels welcomed and respected and they can be their authentic selves.
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We invite all interested candidates to apply for this opportunity. While we recognize that job seekers may hesitate if they don’t meet every requirement, we encourage dedicated individuals who meet all the basic and additional required qualifications of the role to submit an application. We value the opportunity to consider those who believe they have the necessary skills and ambition to succeed at NREL.
This position, located within the Computational Sciences Center, will provide direct and indirect support to the center’s project portfolio and strategic goals. The project manager will assist project leaders with the shepherding of project work, coordination of project teams, ensuring the timely completion and submission of project deliverables, budgeting and budget adherence, project reporting, the completion of legal requirements, and other project management activities as needed. At times, this support will occur during the project proposal process. These projects will vary in topic, nature, timing, and need, requiring organization, critical thinking, creativity, teamwork, and active engagement.
In addition, this position will support and help drive the strategic goals of the center through the management and optimization of center processes, executing activities and processes which build the center’s project portfolio, engagement with internal and external stakeholders, translating goals to actionable tasks, and assist the Center Director and Group Managers with tasks that enable the growth of the center and its capabilities.
This position is expected to execute many activities autonomously, often being the driving force behind the execution of a project timetable or special project. However, this position will not always work alone. Often, they will be expected to work as a team or collaboratively with the other project managers and project controllers in the center. This position requires a high level of confidentiality in handling proprietary research.
A non-exhaustive list of additional job duties includes:
• Shepherding, compiling, analyzing, and/or maintaining reports, project documentation, financial data, research processes and information, presentations, and other project deliverables.
• Assisting with establishing work/ development plans, integrating new work into those plans, drafting statements of work, drafting schedules, drafting budgets, as well as analyzing and providing staffing forecasts.
• Monitoring project progress against schedules, deliverable completion, and spending against plan, ensuring the completion of milestones and deliverables on time and within budget.
• Contribute to, edit, review for quality and compliance, and refine submissions, reports, presentations, and other written artifacts.
• Development of generalized resources for proposers, project leaders, and managers.
• Submit and track and advise on internal and external requests such as contracts, subcontracts, purchase orders, and agreements.
• Interface with other offices, centers, and directorates within NREL.
• Interface with stakeholders, partners, collaborators, and funding agency representatives.
• Track, manage, and facilitate the center’s engagement with stakeholders, partners, collaborators, and funding agency representatives.
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* Must meet educational requirements prior to employment start date.
Level 1:
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Highly organized with an ability to prioritize tasks
• Experience with the Microsoft 365 Suite of programs including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Creative thinking/solution finding
• Experience working for/supporting multiple people simultaneously
• Experience at translating ideas into actionable items
Level 2:
Level 1 +
• Experience interfacing with stakeholders
• Knowledge/ understanding of the detailed aspects involved in managing research projects and ensuring milestone delivery
• Experience with project management software, preferably Jira Cloud, GitHub, and/or Microsoft Project
Experience with network development and relationship building
• Experience with GitHub and/or Jira Cloud
• Experience with/understanding of budgeting and/or financial controllership activities
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The anticipated closing window for application submission is up to 30 days and may be extended as needed.
NREL takes into consideration a candidate’s education, training, and experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, including seniority and merit systems, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. In compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, a potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.
* Based on eligibility rules
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If you are offered employment at NREL, you must pass a pre-employment drug test prior to commencing employment. Unless prohibited by state or local law, the pre-employment drug test will include marijuana. If you test positive on the pre-employment drug test, your offer of employment may be withdrawn.
Please note that in order to be considered an applicant for any position at NREL you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified. Applications are not kept on file for future positions. Please include a cover letter and resume with each position application.
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