Required:

- Experience managing large streams of related projects or medium programs. Must be able to manage several projects concurrently.

- Candidates must have 10 + years in project management and 5 years program management.

- For this position, financial background is not an absolute necessity, but would be greatly preferred.

- Candidates must have exp in managing programs that are valued in the millions.

- Candidates must be committed to the long term piece of the project (may go more than 12 months)

- Candidates must have experience with updating a financial database (e.g. ECSR)

- Candidates must be technically savvy (don't need to have programming exp, but they will be providing direction to technical teams.

- Candidates must be able to negotiate with diverse teams of people (act as a non-biased 3rd party).

Note that his has the potential of going beyond 12 months.

Reporting to: Manager in the Project Management Office or in some cases may also report to key stakeholders in the program.

Job summary

Program Manager coordinates the development, consolidation and subsequent tracking of stream plans, consolidates key issues, consolidates risks and ensures appropriate risk avoidance and mitigation strategies are employed. Consolidates program status and reports to Program Director and PMO team. The Program manager may be responsible for more than one program at a time

Detailed Job description

Leadership skills
. Integrates technology with Strategic direction roadmap and program charter
. Able to implement IT Governance Program Management Model
. Sets direction for new projects feeding into the program.

Planning/problem-solving skills
. Responsible for establishing and maintaining the program budget.
. Able to define staffing needs
. Continuously monitor progress in terms of the status of the program and the budget and report back to the board, senior management, the client, or the funding organization via weekly or other progress reporting and by organizing and managing status meetings and board meetings.
. Anticipate and catch deviations from a plan or schedule early and keep all participants and stakeholders informed.
. Produces milestone plan
. Manage and resolve issues effectively
. Identify and mitigates risks proactively
. Owns dependencies and lead program

Communication skills
. Articulate and negotiate consensus on a final vision of the core program goals.
. Define acceptance criteria or working with specialists in defining acceptance criteria for program deliverables and will works towards achieving stakeholder acceptance of deliverables.
. Solid written/oral communication skills. Able to get ideas across in a non-confrontational manner in one-to-one situations, small groups, and before large audiences.
. Leads program status meetings
. Produces milestone plan
. Ability to implement program status and communication plans
. Creates and owns traffic light report
. Provides ECSR status and capital report

Team management skills
. Work directly with the team members or with their team leaders to estimate effort, plan activities and negotiate consensus among individual team members on their tasks.
. Provide the team with direction and vision, including motivating people to perform, listening to people, providing feedback, recognizing strengths and providing challenges.

Technical and quality tasks
. Make an effort to understand the technology being used in order to understand and question requests coming from specialists and technical staff and to evaluate what is reasonable or possible.
. Understanding of various software and Infrastructure process, project management methodologies, standards and ensures that all project team members understand and adhere to the above.
. Responsible for the programs commitment to quality - using the resources
available when necessary.
. Assure quality and consistency of output
. Identify and address gaps
. Maintain strategic direction and avoid "reinventing the wheel"


Other Requirements:

. Bachelor degree or relative experience (10+ years) specifically in Project Management
. Experience working with internal clients (business partners)
. PMI certification preferred
. Knowledge of SDLC, IPLC and PM methodologies.
. Familiarity in working with MS Project, Project Server, Lotus Notes, SharePoint, ESCR.
. Familiarity of various architectures: .Net, Java
. Familiarity of various databases: Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL, DB2
. Familiarity of various platforms: Unix, Ms Server, Mainframe


Facilitates the development and ensures completion of the business program through the coordination of tasks, issues and risks through the System Architect and the Project Managers on the program. He/She Measures and monitors progress to ensure that the business capability is delivered on time and within budget, and that it meets or exceeds expectations. Experience, both in the problem domain (through a thorough understanding of business requirements) and the software engineering domain.

Other responsibilities include client management relationship, leadership and management of the program typically delivering results through others, setting the technical and business direction for the group, effective allocation and use of resources through out releases, establishing team environment, hiring, and performance appraisals.

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