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POSITION DUTIES:
Program Manager will provide the following, but not limited to:
- Conduct regular meetings with ITIIF project managers. Help develop reporting/communication mechanisms for projects.
- Create, manage, and implement quality assurance plans for high profile projects.
- Proactively mentor project managers identifying and managing risk and issues plans.
- Assist in the preparation of project status reporting that addresses, at a minimum, task status, deliverable completion, budget expenditure, completion estimate, resource assessments, schedule adjustments, problem/risk/issue identification and corrective action planning.
- Support in the training of PMs and other state resources on performing quality assurance tasks as needed. Proactively mentor project managers identifying and managing risk and issues plans.
- Assist with business/technical decisions related to the use of software to align to business needs and budget constraints.
- Advise DTMB on managing contracts for development efforts.
- Help develop and maintain effective, customer-focused, and usable communications for program/project reporting.
- Provide SME support and contribute to all efforts supporting the design, delivery and sustainment of IT Readiness and Benefits Realization activities used in the selection, prioritization, planning, and ongoing monitoring for IT investments.
- Create presentations, briefings, training/awareness materials, and progress reports.
REQUIREMENTS:
Required Knowledge/Skills:
- Managing quality assurance on large government projects.
- Must have experience in providing quality assurance for projects of duration greater than 6 months and more than 50 stakeholders.
- Must have excellent communications skills, including both written and verbal skills.
- Must have professional facilitation skills.
- Must have experience in creating project level risk and issue management plans.
Additional Required Experience:
- 3+ years of experience in Quality Management within IT projects (preferably with budgets greater than $10 million and multi-phase, multi-year implementations)
- 3+ years of experience in verbal and written communication with clients and technical staff in English
- Intermediate+ level knowledge and understanding to support research and ability to apply concepts, of the Software Engineering Institutes (SEI) Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Experience required: 3-5 Years
