Program Manager (Only Locals)

• Managing quality assurance on large government projects.

• Must have experience in providing quality assurance for projects of duration greater than 6 months and more than 50 stakeholders.

• Must have excellent communications skills, including both written and verbal skills.

• Must have professional facilitation skills.

• Must have experience in creating project level risk and issue management plans.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluation and validation of investments in ITIF projects.
• Evaluation and validation of investments in non-ITIF Enterprise projects.
• Governance and oversight of SOM's Investment Management program.
• Management of risk in both project execution and decision-making, thereby preserving financial resources and ensuring value propositions are realized.
• Definition and measurement of fund performance; this includes the initiation of activities and introduction of change as required to address organizational performance deficiencies that impact the fund.

Program Manager will provide the following, but not limited to, services to support projects :

• Conduct regular meetings with project managers. Help develop reporting/communication mechanisms for projects.
• Create, manage, and implement quality assurance plans for high profile projects.
• Proactively mentor project managers identifying and managing risk and issues plans.
• Assist in the preparation of project status reporting that addresses, at a minimum, task status, deliverable completion, budget expenditure, completion estimate, resource assessments, schedule adjustments, problem/risk/issue identification and corrective action planning.
• Support in the training of PMs and other state resources on performing quality assurance tasks as needed. Proactively mentor project managers identifying and managing risk and issues plans.
• Assist with business/technical decisions related to the use of software to align to business needs and budget constraints.
• Advise DTMB on managing contracts for development efforts.
• Help develop and maintain effective, customer-focused, and usable communications for program/project reporting.
• Provide SME support and contribute to all efforts supporting the design, delivery and sustainment of IT Readiness and Benefits Realization activities used in the selection, prioritization, planning, and ongoing monitoring for IT investments.
• Create presentations, briefings, training/awareness materials, and progress reports.

NOTE

Program Manager will NOT directly manage IT projects. This position will provide portfolio governance, investment management, and quality assurance services to ensure the effectiveness of the IT investments.

Required Knowledge/Skills:

• Managing quality assurance on large government projects.
• Must have experience in providing quality assurance for projects of duration greater than 6 months and more than 50 stakeholders.
• Must have excellent communications skills, including both written and verbal skills.
• Must have professional facilitation skills.
• Must have experience in creating project level risk and issue management plans.

Additional Required Experience:

• 3+ years of experience in Quality Management within IT projects (preferably with budgets greater than $10 million and multi-phase, multi-year implementations)
• 3+ years of experience in verbal and written communication with clients and technical staff in English
• Intermediate+ level knowledge and understanding to support research and ability to apply concepts, of the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)