Senior Program Manager

Title: Senior Program Manager

Reporting to: Office Director

The proposed compensation range for this position is: $135,000 to $165,000.  The offered rate of pay will be based on work location, individual education, skills & qualifications, and experience level. 

Overview of Role

The Senior Project Manager will act as client’s representative in managing a project through its design stages from concept through construction within the client’s time and value constraints.  The role is defined as a planned undertaking with defined goals, work plans, timeliness, and implementation strategies to correspond to client needs. The Senior Project Manager should have the ability to identify opportunities within a project that will add value and help successfully accomplish the client’s desired project outcome.

Essential Functions

• Supervise project staff and provide direction to a large and diverse project team.

• Direct the development of project goals, work plans, timeliness, and implementation strategies.

• Manage and account for project budgets and contracts.

• Identify and coordinate with program committees and advisory groups.

• Administer project budgets, authorize expenditures, develop, and monitor contracts.

• Train and advise staff, project advocates and program participants.

• Plan, facilitate and conduct meetings.

• Measure, evaluate and communicate project performance.

• Identify decision-making issues and key stakeholders, develop and implement strategies to encourage and obtain stakeholder and/or community awareness and support and identify project partners.

• Contribute to team performance by collaboration and effective communication.

• Contribute to and understand the client’s desired project outcomes, identify opportunities to add value to accomplish the desired outcomes.

• Add to team effort by accomplishing other duties as assigned.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a positive proactive approach to the role and will be committed to delivering customer service excellence.

• Minimum Education (or substitute experience) required:  4-year college degree in architecture, construction management or engineering science.

• Minimum Experience required:  5-10 years relevant experience of management of staff including project professionals and/or technicians, managing major projects including development of project scope, goals, work plans, timeliness, and implantation strategies, developing measurement processes/methods for assessing progress toward goals and project outcomes.  Prior experience with developing and monitoring contracts required.

• Skills Required:  Expert in project management, including planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of large, complex projects.  Good communication skills required.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

• Often work in an indoor office environment. Equipment used includes computers and standard office machines.  Essential physical tasks include: the ability to work on a computer and the ability to answer and speak on a telephone.

• May work on site location to include ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary motion and ability to lift 50lbs.

• May also require:

  • Sitting

  • Standing for long periods of time

  • Walking, carrying, pushing, stooping, crouching, and pulling