Project Lead (Program / Senior Project Manager).

Immediate need for a talented Project Lead (Program / Senior Project Manager). This is a 12+ months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Wilsonville ,AL (Remote). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID: 25-78029
Pay Range: $80 - $86/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Plans and coordinates closely with LOB/function managers and cross functional subject matter experts and key project team members to drive project activities and issue resolution.
• Works closely with, and provides direction to business, operations and technology leads to support program needs.
• Ensures that project activities are on a path to deliver benefits realization.
• Installs an appropriate risk management plan for the project and ensures adherence to company and unit requirements.
• Follow Client PMLC methodology, risk management routines, and project governance activities (working closely with Risk Program Portfolio Lead and Lead Business partners).
• Proactively challenge the performance of current systems and processes and identifies risks and develops solutions and/or processes and ensures necessary risk mitigation steps are built into the processes. Readily recognizes solutions and determines at what point issues require escalation to management and portfolio leads.
• Leads teams or multiple teams of internal and/or external resources on a project basis.
• Manages project budget forecast and actuals in accordance with finance and reporting routines and methodologies.
• Analyzes and collectively manages variances to the project plan and makes recommendations and/or creates action plan to mitigate negative variances or to resolve issues.
• Prepares dashboard reporting to identify and communicate the health of the project for use by key executives (in alignment with existing project governance routines).
• Prepares documentation/presentations to support overall workstream efforts and internal reporting routines, as needed
• Proactively engages key stakeholders to plan, manage, and risk mitigate key items and critical path activities.
• Proactively works to engage key stakeholders to understand and mitigate any cross team concerns/differences and leads group discussions to develop a resolution path to keep project activities on-schedule with appropriate risk mitigation.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Key skills; Project Management
• Philanthropic Grant Programs
• Teammate Engagement Program
• Prior project experience working within Philanthropic Grant Programs (Foundation, Charitable Funds, CRA) and Teammate Engagement Programs (Workplace Giving, Volunteering) divisions is preferred but not required for this position.
• Proven ability to effectively manage complex project and initiatives, including multiple business partners across different areas as well as large / complex data sets; demonstrated organization skills
• Proven record of leading complex projects through areas of uncertainty and need for scope clarity.
• Proven stakeholder relationship management skills to engage and drive cross team conversations at the project member and senior management stakeholder levels.
• Ability to communicate project status from both a project execution-oriented update and in business progression terms.
• Planning and executing on "readiness" plans: Client Communications, Teammate Communications and Teammate Training.
• Prior experience with system and user acceptance test planning activities
• PMP certification.
• Ability to draft plan material based on conversations with process owners and stakeholders, as needed.

Our client is a leading Banking Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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