Immediate need for a talented IT Program Manager. This is a 12+ months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Columbia, SC (Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
Job ID: 24-35987
Pay Range: $55 - $60/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for overall coordination, status reporting, and stability of project-oriented work efforts.
- Responsible for multiple work efforts of any size, from minimum complexity system/customer impacts to greater complexity system/customer impacts.
- Adheres to project management processes and methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budgeted hours, adheres to high quality standards, and meets ISSM expectations.
- Monitors project plans, assignments and work efforts on a daily basis.
- Ensures resource needs are assigned appropriately and escalates functional, quality, timeline issues.
- Tracks key project milestones and adjusts project plans to meet the needs of work effort.
- Responsible for leading the project from inception to final business acceptance and implementation.
- Mentors other project leads and participates in the training and development of staff.
- 20% Develops and monitors project plans, risk management plans, and project documentation from scope to post implementation.
- Ensures project documentation and deliverables are complete, on budget, within scope, and in accordance with standards.
- 20% Identifies items that impact the scope, budget, risk, and resources of the work effort. Monitors resource requirements based on project specifications.
- Ensures resources are assigned to meet project objectives while managing project hours budgeted.
- 20% Responsible for the development, execution, and maintenance of project communications.
- Facilitates effective communications between all parties involved in the project and/or work efforts.
- This will include meetings, correspondence, status reports and other documentation.
- 20% Identifies the impact of issues arising from the work efforts and/or resource requirements.
- Manages the project issues throughout the project life cycle.
- Communicates the implications of changes to the project scope with senior management and other appropriate parties.
- 10% Responsible for ensuring all work efforts have appropriate documentation for audit purposes utilizing project methodology standards in accordance with the ISSM.
- 10% Coaches, develops, mentors other team members.
- May provide guidance and leadership to staff pertaining to training and department initiatives.
- May provide oversight for a group of work efforts as requested.
- May perform peer reviews of project artifacts.
Key Requirements and Technology Experience:
- Exceptional communications (verbal and written) skills with all levels of management and team members. Superior leadership skills in a team or project environment.
- Exceptional problem solving and conflict management/resolution skills.
- Highly effective analytical and organizational skills with attention to detail.
- Excellent understanding of project management principles and methodologies, information systems, business processes, and the key drivers and measures of success for the business unit and the organization.
- Superior competency in management of resources to meet goals and multiple projects.
- Highly effective ability to lead multiple multidiscipline, high-performance work teams throughout project life cycle.
- Advanced ability to negotiate terms and scope of work documents.
- Advanced ability to prepare and present formal presentations to senior management.
- Proven ability to manage all phases of work effort from inception to completion.
- Highly effective strategic thinking skills.
- Proven effectiveness in conducting analysis of project triple constraints.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office and project management tools.
- Fast paced, dynamic environment which may require action and response 24X7 to support the technical business needs of the customer and where one must be flexible to changing priorities.
- Bachelor's Degree or 4 years of job related work experience or 2 years of job related experience plus an associate’s degree in any major.
- 7 years IT experience in a leadership capacity, including 4 years leading multiple concurrent project teams. Completion of the Client Training Program for Project Management may substitute for one year of experience.
- Preferred Licenses and Certificates: PMP Certification
Our client is a leading Insurance Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
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