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Location: Harrisburg, PA Duration: 12+ months Rate: Open The Senior Program Manager will work with client's existing project management methodology and will serve as a senior project manager on multiple highly-complex and high visibility projects. Communication, collaboration and management at the most senior level is required. Specific Duties: . Develop and maintain project control documents in accordance with enterprise project management methodologies, including: project charters, cost plans, capacity management plans, risk management plans, communications plans, governance plans, schedules, change management plans, knowledge management plans and quality assurance plans. . Develop detailed project plans using project scheduling tools such as Microsoft Project. . Lead all project plan development activities, including identification of phases, activities, tasks, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, schedules and assignment of resources . Motivate project resources to complete assigned duties and tasks. . Prepare formal reports on the status and health of the IT projects, including periodic status reports, management dashboards and project metrics. . Monitor project quality, schedule and budget and facilitate actions to mitigate risk and address issues that arise. . Facilitate the risk and issue management processes for IT projects by maintaining risk and issue logs, identifying risks and issues, communicating issues and risks according to project governance and working with project team members to ensure effective risk and issue management. . Facilitate deliverable and project artifact approval processes for IT projects by tracking all deliverables and project artifacts that require approvals, communicating the need for approvals to the appropriate groups and individuals and tracking approval decisions and following up where need be to ensure approvals are achieved within established timeframes. . Manage the project change control process for issues that impact the quality, schedule or budget of the project by: documenting change requests, securing approval for changes and documenting approved changes in accordance to project governance. . Facilitate periodic and ah-hoc project meetings, including scheduling with appropriate team members, preparing agendas, recording action items and key decisions and preparing, circulating and seeking approval for meeting minutes. Skills Needed: Experience as a Project Manager for large and complex Information Technology projects Required 5 Years Senior or Lead Project Management experience including supervision of project management teams Required 5 Years Experience working as part of a Project Management Office (PMO) Required 3 Years Strong oral / written communication skills. Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate at all levels of an organization including executive staff Required Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate others to complete tasks Required Experience managing large IT Application Development projects Required 3 Years Experience managing large IT Infrastructure projects Required 3 Years Experience preparing formal reports to include; Status Reports, Management Dashboards, Project Metrics Required 5 Years PMP or similar project management certification Desired Experience in utilizing Iterative Project Management Methodologies Highly desired 2 Years Experience creating detailed project plans using project scheduling tools (Microsoft Project) Highly desired 2 Years Experience working in support of local, state and/or federal gov't Highly desired 2 Years Thanks Sandeep Sandeep Jain Software People Inc. [email protected] Ph: 631-863-0299, 631-410-4741, 631-921-2111 C Fax: 631-574-3122 Twitter: Software People @spincjobs Certifications: SBA 8a/SDB, NY MWBE, VA SWaM, DE OMWBE, MA MWBE -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Exact Match" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/exact-match. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
