Senior IT Program Assurance Manager to manage performance of assigned project managers while proactively monitoring and resolving their project roadblocks

(MLL-220) Senior IT Program Assurance Manager to manage performance of assigned project managers while proactively monitoring and resolving their project roadblocks in alignment with PMO guidance.

Must Haves:

• 15 years of experience as an IT Project Manager
• 10 years overseeing the delivery of multiple concurrent projects in a program manager, project director, or similar role.
• 7 years of experience preparing and presenting PowerPoint presentations to all levels of management.
• 5 years performing root cause analysis on projects with schedule or budget overruns, scope creep, and/or multiple issues and risks, in addition to the development and execution of plans to recover the project.
• Valid PMP certification.

Nice to Haves:

• PRINCE2
• Experience planning and managing projects in a Public Sector organization
• Familiarity with Smartsheet

Responsibilities:

• Manage the performance of assigned project managers
• Ensure project managers comply with PMO methodology
• Proactively monitor and resolve project roadblocks in alignment with PMO guidance
• Address project team conflicts
• Ensure project managers assertively address conflicts with stakeholders and sponsors
• Review and approve key project management artifacts
• Ensure the following project management activities are performed according to standards:
• Project initiation and planning
• Budget development, tracking, and variance reporting
• Resource planning and assignment
• Schedule management (develop, control and update)
• Status reporting
• Issue management, including issue logging, tracking, and escalation
• Project change management, utilizing the change control process to manage changes to project scope, budget, and schedule
• Quality management, including review and assurance of deliverables prior to acceptance
• Risk management, including risk assessment, contingency planning, tracking risk status, and initiating contingency plans
• Communication management, including communication planning and execution of the plan
• Deliverable acceptance process, including identification of who will be accepting project deliverables and the process that will be used