IT Program Manager – ICT PMO # JN -072021-66638

Position title : IT Program Manager - ICT PMO

Duration : 12 months

Location : Columbia, SC

PMO INFORMATION:

• The ICT PMO provides project management for all Infrastructure and Technology driven change, including coordination across all impacted LOBs – leveraging LOB PMOs and Client Management teams as necessary. 
• The Project Leader (PL) is responsible for all project management activities in a matrixed project environment.
• The project environment is fast-paced and deadline-focused.
• The successful PL is able to work independently while keeping management informed, handle deadline pressures, and effectively escalate project issues.

CANDIDATE TECHNICAL BACKGROUND:

• In-depth experience in Agile/Scrum project management.
• IT Leadership experience on multiple concurrent project teams
• Experience working in a Matrixed environment
• MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project (5+ years)
• Experience running large projects with multiple efforts underneath
• PMP Certification (Highly Desired)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• The Project Leader (PL) is responsible for all project management activities in a matrixed project environment utilizing waterfall/PMBOK-based methodology. The project environment is fast-paced and deadline-focused. The successful PL is able to: work independently while keeping management informed, handle deadline pressures, and effectively escalate project issues. 
• The PL is accountable for the delivery of projects on time, on budget, and on target. 
• Facilitating project team through the definition of scope, requirements, and design. 
• Responsible for authoring (using input from project team) required project documentation, including scope document, design document, and implementation document. 
• Responsible for facilitating the WBS process and translating WBS into an MS-Project project schedule, detailed to an 8/80 level of granularity. 
• Responsible for keeping the project schedule updated throughout the project life cycle, and for managing a change control process to reflect changes in requirements, deliverables, dates, or budget. 
• Responsible for facilitating the identification of project risks and issues, and tracking these through the project life cycle. 
• Responsible for coordination of customer testing, with the assistance of a Test Analyst on larger projects. 
• Responsible for scheduling, facilitating and recapping project team meetings. 
• Responsible for the escalation of project issues, and for communications of project status to all levels of management on both customer and I/S side.