Senior Program Manager-Harrisburg PA#.#

[angelina Williams]

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My name is Angelina Williams and I am working on below position for my client as mentioned below. Your profile is good match for this opening. I would like to represent your contention if you think this position is match as per your skill sets. Please read below job description and let me know your thoughts.

Job Title: Senior Program Manager

Location: Harrisburg PA

Mode Of Interview: Phone/Skype

Client :State of PA

Type of Hire: Contract 6+ Month

 

Short Description:

Senior Program Manager 1 (SPM1) - 10 plus years relevant experience

 

Complete Description:

·         PennDOT seeks a Senior Program Manager to provide project management services to advance IT projects within PennDOT’s Information Systems and Technology Office (ISTO). ISTO manages a portfolio of more than 150 projects. Many of these projects are inter-related and are grouped into programs.

 

·         The Senior Program Manager will work with PennDOT’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.

 

 

Required Skills and Experience:

·         Required:  5+ years full-time experience as a project manager for large and complex information technology projects

·         Required:  2+ years of senior or lead project management experience including supervision of project management teams

·         Required:  Strong oral and 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

·         Desired:  PMP or similar project management certification

·         Desired: 2+ years of experience in utilizing iterative project management methodologies.

·         Desired: 2+ years of experience in utilizing agile project management methodologies.

 

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Thanks & Best Regards,

 

Angelina Williams, Technical Associate

SoftSages Technology, Inc. 

17 Mystic Ln, Malvern, PA-19355

Desk No: +1 (484) 402-7869 Ext. 110 | Fax: +1 (484) 320-3371

E-Mail: an...@softsages.com | Website: www.softsages.com