IT Program Manager CIBMTR

This role works under the direction of the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) Senior IT Director and leads the program management team. The role partners closely with IT team members and cross-functional personnel across data operations statistical operations finance and administration and coordinates across CIBMTRs affiliate organizations to keep business priorities and technical execution aligned. Operating within a hybrid Agile Scrum environment the role is accountable for a portfolio of concurrent initiatives setting priorities maintaining delivery governance and standards and reporting program health to leadership so that teams deliver high-quality solutions on time.

Program & Project Planning

• Define project scope requirements deliverables and business timelines.

• Estimate IT effort and duration for small to large-scale projects by defining requirements and collaborating with IT team leads applying a consistent sizing methodology.

• Maintain visibility across the portfolio of active initiatives; support budgeting and balance capacity against demand with resource leaders.

Delivery Execution & Governance

• Facilitate meetings for discovery planning implementation status and project governance.

• Track deliverables timelines and dependencies across initiatives.

• Lead risk management including identification mitigation planning and escalation.

• Remove team obstacles and impediments to keep delivery on track.

• Support steering committee governance and report program health delivery risks and dependencies to leadership.

• Lead mentor and provide direction to the program management team.

Prioritization & Agile Delivery

• Guide prioritization and conflict resolution across competing initiatives and ensure backlog items and requirements are well-defined and actionable.

• Drive product alignment as the team operates within a hybrid Agile Scrum model.

• Lead iteration planning and release management.

Methodology Operations & Vendor Management

• Maintain the SDLC and delivery standards across Waterfall and Agile Scrum including templates for requirements issue tracking and testing and validation.

• Manage vendor relationships deliverables timelines and dependencies and escalate performance risks or delivery variances.

• Perform other duties as assigned

• Knowledge of computers electronics digital media databases applications software development risk management and information security.

• Strong understanding of program and project management practices supporting enterprise technology initiatives.

• Understanding of data-driven environments in healthcare research or regulated industries.

• Ability to connect technical initiatives with operational and strategic objectives.

• Ability to independently manage complex multi-stakeholder initiatives in dynamic environments.

• Strong judgment in prioritization dependency management and issue escalation.

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate work across technical and operational teams.

• Proven ability to manage ambiguity while maintaining program clarity and momentum.

• Experience supporting organizational change associated with major technology initiatives.

• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Conceptual understanding of modern data and analytics environments including:

• Working knowledge of Agile delivery methods and Scrum concepts.

Appropriate experience may be substituted for education on an equivalent basis.

Minimum Required Education: Bachelors degree

Minimum Required Experience: 8 years

Preferred Education:Bachelors degree in Management Information Services Computer Science Business or related field; or MBA MS or other advanced degree

Preferred Experience:8 plus years of project or program management experience. Experience operating in healthcare clinical research or regulated environments. Experience coordinating across multiple organizations stakeholders and vendors

Preferred Certification/Licensure(s): Certification in PMP (Project Management Professional); Agile or equivalent program management certifications.

Work requires occasionally lifting moderate weight materials standing or walking continuously.

Occasional exposure to dust noise temperature changes or contact with water or other liquids. Work is performed in an environmentally controlled environment.

Ability to detect and translate speech or other communication . May occasionally require the ability to distinguish colors and perceive relative distances between objects.#LI-NK1