Program Manager

Company: GCR Professional Services
Location: East Aurora
Posted on: May 2, 2025

Job Description:

IT Program Manager

The information below covers the role requirements, expected candidate experience, and accompanying qualifications.

Contract 1+ year Assignment 40 hours weekly

Hours: 8am - 5pm
Hybrid - 3 days/week (1st couple of weeks full-time in the office)
TECHNICAL SKILLS

Must Have

Successful IT Program Manager

Nice To Have

Cybersecurity
Disaster Recovery
IT Infrastructure

JOB DESCRIPTION

Responsibilities:

Establish, refine, and report on program schedule, including management of individual workstream timelines, deliverables, and dependencies.
Facilitate team meetings for various program workstreams, ensuring deliverable progress is captured and driven to agreed upon timeline, and minutes from meetings are captured and shared as appropriate.
Manage financial tracking and planning for program expenses, including reconciliation of invoices against planned capital and operational expenses, tracking and maintenance of purchase requests against program workstream budgets, and updating budgets and cash flow forecasts.
Track deliverable status for data center, compute, network, storage, database, cloud, and security workstreams and manage past due items to closure
Summarize progress, compile materials, and lead program steering committee discussions, ensuring to raise risks and actions to the committee for decision in and support.

Desired experience, in addition to what you suggest for a person at this level, should likely include the following:

Ability to manage multiple workstreams/projects at once - with ability to successfully navigate context switching between related but separate efforts.
Foundational understanding of the infrastructure and security domains, including exposure to compute, network, storage, data center, and security projects
Experience with disaster recovery or business continuity topics are a plus

These are the skills you'll bring with you:
Bachelor's degree, preferably in a technical field, and a minimum of ten years of work experience, and at least 5 years program related work experience. Must have excellent listening and persuasive skills to both understand and expedite where necessary. In addition, people skills must be used in handling stakeholders in a positive manner regardless of the situation. Ability to organize people, the ability to influence, and outstanding ability to communicate and facilitate. Proven knowledge and experience with formal project management, including use of project management tools. Must have good writing skills.
EOE/AA Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Disability/Veteran

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