About This Role
This IT Program Manager role involves directing activities to meet organizational objectives, coordinating tasks, and solving problems across various projects. The position requires an autonomous approach, providing guidance and leadership to sponsors and stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Direct activities to meet the sponsor's organizational work objectives and serve as a liaison to coordinate activities, negotiate tasks, and solve problems
- Apply a project management model (e.g., Agile, Spiral, Waterfall) for a given effort
- Serve as programmatic liaison to the sponsor; maintain enterprise sponsor contacts to ensure conformity to all contractual obligations
- Formulate outcome and performance-based tasking that leverages program control systems, including but not limited to EVMS and related program control methodologies
- Provide technical and financial reports to document progress for the enterprise sponsor
- Maintain individual project schedules and schedule forecasts
- Provide guidance and leadership to the sponsor and their management stakeholders
- Work closely with the Talent Acquisition team to identify new candidates and adjudicate interviews, vetting, and hiring of new required resources
- Manage the program staff directly or through assigned task order leads upon task order awards
- Identify risks and document program progress, including implementation, timelines, issues, risks, quality, and success measures to meet contractual requirements
- Provide status reporting to the enterprise sponsor and the internal team on progress toward objectives
- Manage and ensure all project issues are resolved promptly to avoid a negative impact on the budget or schedule
- Use PMF and Agile methodologies to manage projects leveraging Primavera, JIRA, ESMT, ServiceNow, and other enterprise tools
- Oversee sprint planning, utilize gathered and analyzed technical information, and perform daily Agile scrum
- Provide communication that leads to the understanding of deadlines, assignments, and objectives across all enterprise stakeholders
- Develop, maintain, and implement a Program Management Plan that supports a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and guides the performance of functional activities performed on the program
Requirements
- Minimum of 11 years of experience
- Bachelor's or Master’s Degree preferred in one or more of the disciplines described
- Strong interpersonal skills with tact when collaborating with technical resources, engineering, developers, mission partners, and senior officers
Nice to have:
- PMP, Agile, ITIL, or other related certifications
- Quality processes including ISO, Six Sigma, CMMI
