IT Program Assurance Manager

Job Title: IT Program Assurance Manager

Location: Winnipeg, MB (Remote)
    
Estimated Duration: 8 Months

Responsibilities:

• Manage the performance of assigned project managers

• Ensure project managers comply with PMO methodology

• Proactively monitor and resolve project roadblocks in alignment with PMO guidance

• Address project team conflicts

• Ensure project managers assertively address conflicts with stakeholders and sponsors

• Review and approve key project management artifacts

• Ensure the following project management activities are performed according to standards:

• Project initiation and planning 

• Budget development, tracking, and variance reporting

• Resource planning and assignment

• Schedule management (develop, control and update)

• Status reporting

• Issue management, including issue logging, tracking, and escalation

• Project change management, utilizing the change control process to manage changes to project scope, budget, and schedule

• Quality management, including review and assurance of deliverables prior to acceptance

• Risk management, including risk assessment, contingency planning, tracking risk status, and initiating contingency plans

• Communication management, including communication planning and execution of the plan

• Deliverable acceptance process, including identification of who will be accepting project deliverables and the process that will be used

 Qualifications:

• Expertise in project lifecycles, and project planning including Resource, cost, and schedule estimation

• Experience developing business cases

• Experience providing oversight and managing performance of project managers

• Strong facilitation skills