RQ00129 - Program Manager - Senior

Advantages
- Long-term contract opportunity
- Hybrid work environment (2–3 days onsite per week)
- Influence high-profile, enterprise-wide programs
- Work with a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary team
- Exposure to public sector processes and frameworks

Responsibilities
- Provide program management leadership and expertise of large-scale, highly complex, high-profile profile and high-risk initiatives that may be multi-jurisdictional and/or enterprise-wide.
- Ensure accountability for the program's centralized group of projects and their successful full life cycle delivery.
- Ensure programs are delivered cost effectively and efficiently, and in compliance with the organization's methodologies, standards and frameworks.
- Uses significant innovation in the planning, analysis and execution of tasks.
- Provides program, portfolio, and/or project reporting to multiple stakeholders.
- Adheres to organization's standards and best practices for program.

Qualifications
Must Haves:
- Demonstrated experience leading and overseeing program strategy development from inception to project close-out and any required transition to operations, business planning, benefits identification and organization funding requests for I&IT programs.
- Experience providing a program/portfolio view of inter-dependencies and external project dependencies, monitoring and reporting on exposure levels.
- Experience directing stakeholder consultation, facilitation and consensus building.
- Experience directing, managing and leading multidisciplinary project teams including multiple Project Managers, each responsible for an element of the project and associated matrix team members.

General Skills:
- Demonstrated experience understanding and articulating I&IT executive expectations and translating into program deliverables.
- Experience monitoring and managing the cost, risk, schedule, governance, technical performance, and program impact of each of the component projects.
- Experience developing complex budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross-organization dependencies.
- Experience analyzing program and organization's environments to identify potential risks and issues; articulates and prioritizes issues and risks to senior executives; recommends mitigation strategies to decision-makers to ensure projects are delivered on schedule.
- Experience directing stakeholder consultation, facilitation and consensus building.
- Experience leading strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change.
- Experience seeking new and unique business processes, technologies and products to benefit programs, portfolios and projects.
- Experience supervising the development and communication of program-related updates.
- Experience building positive relationships within the team and external parties.
- Experience contributing to improvements in life cycle based on lessons learned and past experience.
- Experience scheduling and organizing meetings/events and maintaining agenda.

Desirable Skills:
- Expert knowledge of PMLC.
- Excellent communication & collaboration skills.

Summary
Our client is looking for a strategic and results-oriented Senior Program Manager with deep expertise in leading I&IT programs. If you excel at managing large-scale initiatives, driving alignment across stakeholders, and delivering measurable outcomes, this is your opportunity to make an impact in a high-profile public sector environment.

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