Job Profile Summary
Lead a program or multiple projects from start to finish. Inspires confidence in the team, senior management, and the business community implementing the project solution. Leads efforts to improve existing processes or programs and design new systems or processes as required. Advocates for Operational Excellence across the organization.
**Must be fluent in English
Key Responsibilities
- Manage multiple concurrent projects with a well-defined scope, moderate complexity and limited, contained risk exposure
- Deliver project objectives by developing and managing schedule, scope, risks, and issues
- Assess and manage project variances (e.g., schedule variance); evaluate impacts to overall project commitments, evaluate and present options, and implement approved changes.
- Maintain accountability for managing expectations and ensuring quality.
- Maintain accountability for providing timely communications, managing expectations, and assuring quality.
- Provide tactical leadership regarding project priorities, timeline, resources, and issues.
- Provide ongoing work direction to the project team.
- Create an environment that enhances team motivation
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree AND 3-5 years project/program management experience required
- Intermediate understanding of project management principles
- Intermediate knowledge of the project lifecycle
- Familiarity with project planning and support tools such as MS Project, Project Workbench, MS Office and Lotus Notes
- Ability to monitor progress and status of deliverables and communicate appropriately. Ability to capture status updates using the appropriate tools
- Ability to communicate the impact of status changes to overall project plan/progress
- Demonstrated delivery of service meeting customer expectations
- Excellent time management, communications, decision making, presentation, human relations, and organization skills
- Ability to balance scope, tasks, schedule, quality, resources, and budget
- Practical application of accepted project lifecycle practices/methodology
- Basic understanding of the business and related technology needs
- Ability to understand critical factors and impacts surrounding issues and to make a reasonable decision
- Ability to resolve problems in a timely manner. Ability to meet deadlines while responding well to constant changes and resource constraints
- Ability to communicate technical info and ideas so others will understand
- Nice to have: Certifications in Azure.
– Fluent, Bi-lingual (Spanish and English): interviews will be held in English.
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