Title: IT Program Manager
Location: East Aurora, NY 14059 (Hybrid - 3 days/week (1st couple of weeks full-time in the office)
Working Hours: 8am - 5pm
Duration: 12 months

Nice To Have:

• Cybersecurity
• Disaster Recovery
• IT Infrastructure

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.

 

About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions.
 
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
 
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $45.00/hr.