Program Manager (Hybrid, 2days/week)

No GC

ITIL 4 certification, Scrum Master certification, State/govt experience needed.

Candidate will be required to be onsite at 35 East Chestnut, Columbus OH 2days/week

Client: State of Ohio JFS

Position: Program Manager 3- 736134 (Hybrid, 2days/week)

Submission Closing Date: 5/17/2024

Location: 35 East Chestnut, Columbus OH

Job Description:

The candidate will be supporting The Ohio Department of Children and Youth Office of Information Technology.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities would include:

• Organizes, manages, and directs project team tasks and assures the proper application of PMO standards, tools, and methodologies in project work.
• Develops the project plan.
• Supervises and manages the project Stakeholders, the project team and project communications.
• Manages project risks, issues, and changes.
• Oversees and manages the project schedule and project budget.
• Manages conflicts and ensures successful project delivery.

The ideal candidate would have the technical qualifications specified below:

• Responsible for the development of estimates for the enhancement or development effort in planning, analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation.
• Adjust and revise estimates when necessary.
• Ensure all changes to scope follow processes and are documented.
• Ensure new estimates are approved by the client and agreed upon.
• Adjust and revise estimates when necessary.
• Monitor project milestones and phases to ensure the project is on schedule.
• Prepares status reports on a periodic basis for program team, team leads, group leads, and program manager and appropriate stakeholders.
• Develop the detailed program plan for the enhancement or development effort.
• Accountable for the final program management evaluation review with stakeholders for approval upon program completion.
• Responsible to tailor and baseline all program templates.
• Accountable to schedule or monitor status reviews, peer reviews, program management inspections, and software quality assurance work product and process reviews with the appropriate designated resources.
• Notify team leads of project timelines, milestones, phases, work requests target dates, and approved executable work package.
• Coordinate and present proposals to agencies as necessary.
• Analyze and distribute reports on program metrics associated with work items related to improvement measures.
• Ensure processes and activities are followed.
• Accountable for the approval and sign-off of the program plan with customer representatives, such as portfolio managers, and all affected program stakeholders.
• Accountable for management of scope for the program and gaining agreement and approval of scope changes with customer representatives and affected stakeholders.
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and customer representatives.
• Direct work planning and scheduling design work.
• Coordinate and present proposals to agencies as necessary.
• Identify and manage program risk and develop risk mitigation strategies, track to closure.
• Ensure team leads adjust and revise estimates when necessary.
• Anticipate issues and proactively address them. Resolve conflicts with sensitivity and tact.
• Coordinate the establishment of program standards and program specific procedures with team leads.
• Responsible for project compliance with standards and procedures.
• Responsible for the capture and reporting of required program management metrics.
• Responsible to tailor and baseline all program templates.
• Develop and facilitate achievement of program service commitments and performance metrics.
• Ensure that tasks provide value and support the strategic direction of the program and meet service commitments, conduct reviews with agencies.
• Accountable for the final program management evaluation review with stakeholders for approval upon program completion.
• Communicate effectively with customers and software / hardware suppliers supporting the State as appropriate.
• Identify and track issues.
• Balance workload with program members capacity.
• Plan program specific training and orientation needs.