SIL Global
1001 - 5000 employees
🤝 Non-profit
📚 Education
🌍 Social Impact
Non-profit • Education • Social Impact
SIL Global is a global, faith-based nonprofit organization that collaborates with local communities worldwide to create language solutions aimed at enhancing their quality of life. The organization is involved in approximately 1,350 active language projects across 104 countries, impacting over 1. 1 billion individuals in 1,600 local communities. With a workforce of more than 4,300 staff from 89 countries, SIL Global works alongside many local partners and volunteers to promote linguistic diversity, education, and development, without regard to religious beliefs or ethnic backgrounds.
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SIL Global
1001 - 5000 employees
🤝 Non-profit
📚 Education
🌍 Social Impact
Non-profit • Education • Social Impact
SIL Global is a global, faith-based nonprofit organization that collaborates with local communities worldwide to create language solutions aimed at enhancing their quality of life. The organization is involved in approximately 1,350 active language projects across 104 countries, impacting over 1. 1 billion individuals in 1,600 local communities. With a workforce of more than 4,300 staff from 89 countries, SIL Global works alongside many local partners and volunteers to promote linguistic diversity, education, and development, without regard to religious beliefs or ethnic backgrounds.
📋 Description
• Coordinate the work of distributed software development teams and field trial users throughout the product lifecycle • Manage project schedules, communications, dependencies, financial management, and progress communication to external funders and co-development partners • Collaborate with the Development team, Language Technology leadership, partners, supporting organizations, user communities, and field-trial leaders • Align technology roadmaps and sprint priorities with language program roadmaps • Develop processes for collecting, synthesizing, and presenting team progress and process data • Champion team processes and development velocity in alignment with product strategy • Organize and manage user research deliverables and resulting insights • Coordinate product long-term vision and strategy with language program strategies • Align product development priorities and processes with language program roadmaps • Support yearly budget and funding proposals, budget development, and partnership reporting • Provide quarterly reports and requested metrics to Language Technology Leadership • Research, champion, and deploy process management systems and applications • Oversee integration of Agile software development methodologies with language program methodologies • Lead regular project status, planning, and partnership meetings • Support reporting of project hardware, software budget, and immediate needs • Travel to meet the larger development team and attend the Language Technology Conference
🎯 Requirements
• Experience managing projects for software engineering teams • Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle • Experience leading development teams in a project management role • 3 to 5 years’ experience in project management for software development teams preferred • Demonstrated understanding of software development processes and methodologies • Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve complex team interactions and interdependencies affecting product development or priorities • Appreciation for quality user interface design • Good interpersonal communication skills • Good organizational skills • Ability to quickly analyze and learn a large existing product offering • Ability to make timely decisions • Ability to generate and analyze multiple solutions to a problem • Ability to quickly learn technical concepts • Ability to work with a team and independently, and multitask effectively • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience preferred • PMP certification is a strong plus • Must be able to legally work within the U.S. • Must complete the initial IT Software Department training program and relevant portions of IT Orientation • Ability to travel to meet the larger development team at least once per year • Ability to travel biannually to the Language Technology Conference
🏖️ Benefits
• Full-time or volunteer professional opportunity • Paid - Regular position • Opportunity to make a difference through SIL’s global faith-based nonprofit mission • Travel to meet the larger development team at least once per year • Travel biannually to the Language Technology Conference • Participation in professional conferences and meetings • Initial IT Software Department training program and relevant portions of IT Orientation
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