IT Program Manager

• Manage the performance of assigned project managers
• Ensure project managers comply with PMO methodology
• Proactively monitor and resolve project roadblocks in alignment with PMO guidance
• Address project team conflicts
• Ensure project managers assertively address conflicts with stakeholders and sponsors
• Review and approve key project management artifacts
• Ensure the following project management activities are performed according to company’s standards: Project initiation and planning
• Budget development, tracking, and variance reporting
• Resource planning and assignment
• Schedule management (develop, control and update)
• Status reporting
• Issue management, including issue logging, tracking, and escalation
• Project change management, utilizing the change control process to manage changes to project scope, budget, and schedule
• Quality management, including review and assurance of deliverables prior to acceptance
• Risk management, including risk assessment, contingency planning, tracking risk status, and initiating contingency plans
• Communication management, including communication planning and execution of the plan
• Deliverable acceptance process, including identification of who will be accepting project deliverables and the process that will be used

• Expertise in project lifecycles, and project planning including Resource, cost, and schedule estimation
• Experience developing business cases
• Experience providing oversight and managing performance of project managers
• Strong facilitation skills
• PRINCE2 Practitioner certification is desired
• Experience planning and managing projects in a Public Sector organization is an asset
• Familiarity with Smartsheet is desired
• Must have Windows based computer with standard Windows applications
• Must have own Visio license
• Must possess own communication device

• PRINCE2 Practitioner certification
• Experience planning and managing projects in a Public Sector organization
• Familiarity with Smartsheet

Opportunity to work with a leading employer in the local market