ASITS Program Manager (Extended Temporary)

The ASITS Program Manager is responsible for driving technical and security improvements across five major areas of IT: cloud computing, secure network, endpoint management, IT service management, and IAM practices. The Program Manager is responsible for coordinating deliverables, resource allocations, timelines, risk mitigations, communications, and reporting across project plans for each of the five areas of focus.

This is an Extended Temporary Position with an expected end date of June 30, 2025.

Candidates working anywhere in the U.S. may be considered for a remote assignment.

Outstanding UA benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; UA/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; retirement plans; access to UA recreation and cultural activities; and more!

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• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring they are completed within scope and on time, in a dynamic environment.
• Drive the project delivery strategy through the consistent application of a project management framework, training, methodologies, metrics, assets, and tools.
• Quickly gain strategic understanding of stakeholder needs, and business and technology objectives.
• Provide strategic leadership and direction to project managers, service offering managers, data analysts, and engineers.
• Direct supervision of two to three project managers and one to two data analysts.
• Establish measures of success and inspire teams to exceed expectations.
• Analyze, evaluate, and overcome program risks, and produce weekly program status reports for the team, UITS leadership and stakeholders.
• Anticipate and persistently remove obstacles that slow down progress, escalate and mitigate risks/issues to multiple levels of management, including UITS executive leaders.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Highly analytical and organized.
• Strong leadership skills: communication, planning, and negotiation.
• Strong analysis, planning, organization, and consensus-building ability with effective resolution and relationship-management skills.
• Flexibility, adaptability, and commitment to achieving mission/program objectives.
• Must be excellent in documenting work effort and project status on an ongoing basis.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Extensive knowledge of Project Management systems such as Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, MS Project.
• Proficient in Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint and SharePoint.

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8 years experience as a Project Manager or Program Manage; OR,
• Equivalent combination of education and professional work experience.

• PMP, PgMP certifications.
• Experience building efficient project plans with interlinked dependencies and coaching a team on best practices and techniques for driving results.