Program Manager (Entry Level)

Primarily remote, but need to work onsite as needed.

The Program Manager directs, controls, administers, and regulates an enhancement or development program. The Program Manager is the individual ultimately responsible to the agency. The Program Manager’s primary responsibility is to drive the entire effort from start to finish. The Program Manager must ensure that the program is completed on schedule and that the final product meets the business, technical, and established quality requirements.

Years of Relevant Experience: 2 to 4 years

Preferred Education: 4 year college degree or equivalent technical study.

Role Description:

• Looking for someone with Organizational Change Management experience and preferable Lean Six Sigma/Kaizen experience

• Responsible for the development of estimates for the enhancement or development effort in planning, analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation.

• Accountable for delivery of all work tasks identified in the program plan.

• Responsible for the capture and reporting of required program management metrics.

• 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.

• Manage, and track the program progress against the program plan.

• Monitor project milestones and phases to ensure the project is on schedule. Take corrective actions if a project begins to slip its schedule.

• Prepares status reports on a periodic basis for program team, team leads, group leads, and program manager and appropriate stakeholders.

• Plan, organize, prioritize, and manage multiple work efforts across application teams.

• 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.

• Communicate and work with users and client as necessary.

• 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.