Program Manager / It Strategy

Sr. Program/Portfolio Manager – Strategic Initiatives

Hybrid 3 days a week in Columbus, OH. Long term need, contract to hire potential. Seeking ideally experience as a IT Director and Project Manager overseeing multiple IT work streams including App Dev/Mobile, Data Warehouse, Infrastructure, etc.

Comp range up to 97 hr on 1099/C2C. 80-85 on w2.

Position Summary

The Sr. Program/Portfolio Manager role oversees the coordination and completion of all aspects of assigned projects which often require considerable resources and high levels of functional integration. Responsible to lead projects to a successful conclusion by facilitating scope, managing customer expectations, monitoring day-to-day execution and ensuring the project is on schedule and within budget. Creates and maintains standard project management deliverables leveraging appropriate methods and practices to manage and control the project. The role also assists in the development and training of Strategic Initiatives' Program and Portfolio standards and infrastructure at CAS.

Position Accountabilities

• Manages 1-5 concurrent programs and projects of strategic or foundational importance to the enterprise, with organizational complexity across all functions, of large- to extra large-size resources/cost relative to the strategic portfolio. May include cross-functional impacts across the Society. Manages projects, develops and distributes quality project-related documentation to all interested parties, including project plan and schedule, project charter, communications plan, requirements document, design document, deployment plan, test plan, maintenance transition plan, and notification of project end.
• Determines the scope, budget, and resources for assigned projects based on historical information, input from other staff, and high level technical understanding of project tasks.
• Holds project meetings internally and externally to ensure proper level of project-related communication, including project kickoff meeting to establish/confirm roles, regularly scheduled project team meetings to track progress, stakeholder meetings to provide status, post-implementation meeting with customers to ensure that project criteria have been fully met, and lessons learned meeting to gather feedback for use in future projects.
• Ensures measures are taken in projects to increase quality and mitigate risk, including risk analyses, impact assessment, needs assessment, requirements signoff, code reviews, test planning and execution, fallback plans, and deployment plans.
• Measures and reports project performance, project milestones, and other project information to project stakeholders and senior management on a regular basis, including escalating issues that require management attention
• Provides leadership, motivation and establishes a teamwork environment for the project team; and advises, influences, and coaches team members in the development and achievement of project goals.
• Proactively promotes the Strategic Initiatives (SI) services to organization where applicable.
• Provides constructive feedback to leadership to help optimize and streamline SI procedures and processes.
• Assists in the definition and implementation of a project governance strategy and Success Criteria.
• May coordinate and conduct training sessions to ensure project team members are prepared for process, policy and system deployments or changes.

/Ex perience/Technological Knowledge

• Bachelor's Degree required, and Master's/Advanced Degree preferred, in business, management, information systems, computer science or a related field
• Experience across multiple projects including but not limited to; Data Warehouse, Digital Transformation, App Dev, Infrastructure
• Project Management Professional certification (PMP) required
• 10+ years' experience Project Management / Creating and Driving Strategy
• Solid leadership, communications and program management skills with the ability to successfully mobilize diverse resources and project teams across a wide variety of areas/functions/levels to effectively manage large, complex projects simultaneously required.
• Change Champion attributes
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills