What are the responsibilities and job description for the Portfolio/Program Manager position at JSR Tech Consulting?
Contract position with a major investment firm.
Hybrid in Newark, NJ.
Supports delivery for the Information Security Office program and the lead program manager by coordinating planning, tracking, and reporting across multiple initiatives and workstreams. Maintains program artifacts and operating rhythm, ensures consistent status visibility, and helps manage risks, issues, dependencies, and action items. Partners with technology, security, and business stakeholders to improve execution discipline, support governance needs, and ensure work is progressing toward agreed outcomes and control-ready deliverables.
- Support quarterly/monthly planning by capturing information, validating scope assumptions, and partnering with initiative owners to define milestones, dependencies, and delivery dates. Maintain integrated views of work in-flight (roadmap, milestone plan, workstream tracker), and drive follow-ups to keep plans current and actionable. Assist in preparing materials for planning and prioritization decisions (options, tradeoffs, sequencing, capacity constraints).
- Own day-to-day program reporting and executive-ready summaries (weekly status, KPI/OKR views, delivery health, risk themes). Ensure status inputs are timely, consistent, and outcome-based; normalize across teams to enable clear rollups. Track and publish practical metrics such as milestone attainment, aged risks/issues, dependency health, and adoption/readiness signals. Draft communications for key stakeholders and maintain a transparent source of truth for program performance.
- Track cross-team dependencies (e.g., architecture, infrastructure, GRC, product/engineering), coordinate interlock sessions as needed, and document decisions. Support governance forums by building agendas, capturing notes, and ensuring decisions and actions are closed with accountable owners and due dates.
- Partner with stakeholders to ensure initiative artifacts meet governance and audit expectations (e.g., scope documentation, control mappings, evidence needs, approvals). Track operational readiness activities (runbooks, support models, training, handoffs).
Requirements:
- Program/Project Management experience