What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Program Manager position at Kforce Inc?
Responsibilities
Kforce has a client in Beaverton, OR that is seeking a Senior Program Manager. Responsibilities:
We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.
Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.
This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.
Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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Kforce has a client in Beaverton, OR that is seeking a Senior Program Manager. Responsibilities:
- Operates as a team-based servant leader who enables the team to self-organize, self-manage and deliver for the program at the highest level
- Provides a Program Governance and manages the overall delivery operating model
- Drives the program in the coordination of major feature releases and helps ensure ongoing delivery of value to customers where multiple teams are involved
- Facilitates program level processes and execution, identifies and manages dependencies and risks, as well as escalates impediments
- Coordinates and facilitates iterative program level planning ceremonies (such as Product Owner Syncs, Scrum of Scrums, Inspect and Adapt, Program Increment Planning, and System Demos)
- Manages and optimizes the ow of value via cross-organization collaboration
- Proactively manages Program Risk through data-driven analytics and ongoing risk remediation efforts
- Drives the Product Owners, Product Managers and Agile teams to facilitate release planning preparedness
- Provides transparency into the organizations backlog, providing visibility to work in ight, aligned to progress against defined scope
- Accountable for the overall program execution and delivery of work (schedule/capacity)
- Monitors and reports program health (i.e., progress of feature completion, program predictability) with the purpose to provide transparency on program delivery of value
- Coaches and leads the program team in practicing Agile principles and leading practices, identify program/team training opportunities and solution/facilitate as needed
- Coaches and mentors leadership in Lean/Agile best practices and mindset
- Relevant certification preferred
- 6 years of relevant work experience
- Advanced understanding of Agile Principles and how they're applied in workplace culture
- Strong facilitation, coaching and mentoring skills
- Experience leading teams through resolution of program issues
- Strong communication, team dynamics, conflict resolution, mentoring, and servant leadership skills
- Advanced understanding of technology systems and the program's ecosystem
- Advanced understanding of lean and program budgets
- Strong and natural problem solving ability; comfortable with data and ambiguity
- Experience working with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools such as Jira, AHA, and Confluence
- Experience with other agile methodologies, LEAN, Kanban, XP Programming, etc.
We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.
Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.
This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.
Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
By clicking “Apply Today” you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages or emails from Kforce and its affiliates, and service providers. Note that if you choose to communicate with Kforce via text messaging the frequency may vary, and message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You will always have the right to cease communicating via text by using key words such as STOP.
Salary : $71 - $75
