Senior Program Manager
Location: Columbus, OH - Will be required to be onsite at Columbus OH 2days/week
Duration: 12 Months plus

Experience Required (Skill Matrix) - Minimum 9 Years.
Experience developing project plans, inclusive of project scope, requirements, timelines and/or other project controls to ensure project success.
Must have vendor management experience
Leverages gained institutional knowledge to help advance project activities
Must have ability to be tactful yet assertive. Strong collaboration and negotiation skills
Ability to develop strong client and working relationships with the team.
Experience working with government agencies.
Microsoft Excel
Visio
Must have strong communication skills; both written and spoken
Must have ability to work in a team environment.
ITIL 4 certification & Scrum Master.

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.