Staff Program Manager

Job Title: Staff Program Manager

Location: Englewood, CO ON-SITE Day One!

CTH- 3 Months Must be able to convert after 90 days

Visa- Any as long as they can convert within 90 days

Responsibilities:

Software Program Manager / Staff PM is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of software implementation projects ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments, and goals.

In addition to the below Project Manager responsibilities, a Program Manager / Staff PM will also:

• Coordinate the work efforts of other Project Managers
• Provide high level status reporting and future direction of projects & functions to Directors, VPs and C-level executives
• Work with Business stakeholders to define and document business needs and strategies
• Ensure the suite of tools provides current and future functionality to achieve the business needs and growth
• Assist with resource decisions in the PM area

Project Manager Primary Responsibilities fall into the following categories:

• Lead the planning and implementation of projects; present and negotiate with customer, senior management, RM, dev. teams, TQA/UAT
• Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables ; define project tasks and resource requirements
• Develop full scale project plans working with various teams; assemble and coordinate project staff; manage project resource allocation
• Plan and schedule project timelines and necessary weekly/daily or ad hoc meetings; track project deliverables using appropriate tools; provide direction and support to project team; Quality Assurance and UAT
• Constantly monitor and report on progress of the project to all stakeholders; present reports defining project progress, problems and solutions
• Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs; project evaluations and assessment of results throughout and post project deployment

Qualifications:

A successful Project Manager will have the following:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management and/or a minimum of 6 years of Project Management experience or direct work experience in technical software project management capacity
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, to interact effectively with IT management, software development and test teams, and infrastructure teams
• Knowledge of both theoretical and practical aspects of project management; knowledge of technical software project management techniques and tools
• Proven experience in people management, strategic planning, risk management and change management
• Thorough knowledge of software development phases and processes, including a working knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Working knowledge of Rally , Windows and other infrastructures including hardware and software; solid experience with MS Project, Wrike or other project tools.