100% Remote role. Our client is seeking a New England based IT Program Manager.

Due to client requirement, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Pay Rate: $75-$85/hour W2

IT Program Manager

1. Manages and plans complex program/projects with regards to time, budget, and scope, and ensures quality, time, and budget objectives.
2. Plans, schedules, monitors, and reports on activities related to program/projects, ensuring that there are appropriate and effective governance arrangements and risk management supported by comprehensive reporting and communication.
3. The ideal candidate takes accountability for the definition, documentation, and successful completion of assigned program/projects.
4. This is a hybrid role that balances Agile Delivery and traditional Program Management to help software development teams build and deliver solutions more efficiently.

Delivers Program/Project Management:

1. Oversee internal and external systems/application development projects within a program from inception to successful implementation including project objectives, scope and level of effort, and project strategies and plans.
2. Assist with getting projects off the ground, keeping them on track and on budget, and resolving issues as well as monitoring progress against the plan.
3. Lead Agile processes for the program to ensure delivery and releases are within scope.
4. Monitor Agile metrics for the program and responsible for ongoing development of their agile teams, continued improvement of development processes, and product quality and quantity of work delivered.
5. Develop consolidated project plans, specifying high level goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, risks, contingency plans and allocation of available resources. Monitors, analyzes, and assesses deviation from the project plans & ensures the achievement of project milestones. Ensures that all project plans are realistic and are maintained.
6. Ensures that project methodologies are followed and that all mandatory project work products are completed for projects within program.

Exhibits Leadership Effectiveness:

1. Assists with the assignment of project personnel.
2. Directs and coordinates activities of project resources to ensure project progresses on schedule and within budget.
3. Confers with project resources to provide technical advice and resolve problems.
4. Provides leadership and motivation to project teams throughout the project life cycle.
5. Creates and maintains an engaged work environment by ensuring clearly defined roles and responsibilities.
6. Mentors project resources to enable delivery.
7. Owns program results and assists teams to deliver performance within the range of targeted expectations.
8. Balances team priorities with the overall program and corporate priorities.

Partners with Business:

1. Assumes key overall responsibility for ensuring that sponsors have easy access to information that is useful to them.
2. Works closely with other project managers and business sponsors to understand and prioritize business goals and information needs
3. Leads the effort across projects in creative approaches to problem solving and quality deliverables supporting business needs.
4. Convey Program Management Status:
5. Follows established standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation.
6. Utilizes Agile tracking tool for monitoring agile project performance and reporting status.
7. Reviews status reports prepared by project personnel, and modify schedules and plans as required.
8. Prepares project status reports, and keep management, customers and others informed of project status and related issues.
9. Coordinates update meetings to communicate plans, status and issues to higher levels of management.

Experience:

1. Agile Scrum Master experience
2. Agile Project Management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira/Greenhopper, Rally, etc.
3. Clarity, Planview or like PPM tool
4. Proficient in Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Excel
5. Proactive, takes initiative, accountable, self-motivated
6. Strong written & verbal communications skills, including meeting facilitation and presentation skills.
7. Collaborator and team player, with the ability to build and maintain strong internal and external relationships.
8. Strong planning and organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to handle multiple concurrent assignments.
9. Ability to work & think independently, and meet tight deadlines.
10. Ability to share knowledge at different levels, be hands-on with the team as required
11. Excellent interpersonal skills
12. Excellent problem solving and influencing skills
13. Excellent negotiation and conflict management skills

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

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