Program Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Exp. managing and implementing concurrent separate initiatives of varying size. Required 12 Years
• Min. of 4 individual multi-year project implementation experiences & previous success leading initiatives within an agile methodology environment. Required
• Demonstrates extensive knowledge and success as a team leader. Required
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite, MS Project, MS Visio, Atlassian Jira/Confluence. Required
• Bachelor’s degree in CompSci, Business, Finance or another related field. Required
• PMP or PMI Agile Certification Practitioner (PMIACP) or other Agile/ScrumMaster certification. Required

Responsibilities

• Manage relationships with stakeholders, managers, and key software and services vendors for the delivery of projects and programs.
• Provide thought leadership and expertise for Software and/or Hardware system implementations, IT applications, business and systems processes.
• Manage the implementation of projects daily -- including defining deliverables as well as creating and monitoring sprints, project schedules and backlogs.
• Assist with internal communications and resource management as needed.
• Align project objectives with stakeholders' objectives.
• Lead teams through all phases of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using appropriate waterfall and agile methodologies and processes.
• Create project plans, resource plans, program metrics, communication plans and develop analytics supporting delivery of life cycle activities.
• Develop communication plans to ensure business and executive stakeholders are well informed and are provided with accurate information for status of managed initiatives and to support decision making.
• Identify project and resource dependencies and collaboratively work with team members to ensure the project schedule is followed.
• Effectively communicate project status, actions, decisions, risks, issues and schedule for the customer's project portfolio.
• Prepare executive steering committee communications as needed.
• Direct, motivate and collaborate with project team members to ensure the team is provided with clear and accurate information in a timely manner that will enable them to complete assigned tasks within set times, and to deliver to top performance.

Benefits

• Flexible work from home options available.