Sr. IT Program/Project Manager Auto Club of Southern California

Sr. IT Program/Project Manager

We need a Sr. IT Program/Project Manager for a 12 month contract role for a client in Costa Mesa, CA. The project will involve working with client's internal legal team to implement a cloud based Legal Services Management Platform called ONit. This role will be REMOTE. We would prefer candidates in the PACIFIC time zone if possible, but the person can be located anywhere in the USA as long as he/she can work PACIFIC time zone hours.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies:

• Expertise in Waterfall methodology required, Agile methodology experience desirable.
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) required.
• Enterprise Project Planning tool preferred; Clarizen experience a plus.
• Develops actionable plans to achieve strategic goals.
• Delivers logical, concise, persuasive presentations that inspire others to act and make decisions.
• Makes sound business decisions that balance competing priorities.
• Identifies areas of significant concern or opportunity and initiates research to identify critical problems.
• Clearly define program ROIs & ensure ability to measure.
• Leverages synergistic opportunities across functions and the business.
• Develops appropriate metrics to assess business performance.
• Makes recommendations to resolve complex problems affecting an entire function.
• Systematically analyzes relationships between apparently independent problems.

Experience:

• 7+ years of experience in Project/Program Management as part of a PMO.
• 13+ years of overall IT experience.
• Full project/program lifecycle experience required.
• Demonstrated experience managing program stakeholders and senior level executives.
• Experience with Legal applications, preferably ONit.
• Experience managing vendor relationships.
• Experience managing large-scale, enterprise level technology infrastructure and/or information security initiatives required.

Preferred Education:

• Bachelor's Degree (IT related degree, e.g. Computer Sciences, Information Technology)

Preferred Certifications:

• Project Management Certification E.g. (PMP certification)
• Scrum Certification E.g. (PMI ACP, or CSM certification)