Contract Senior Program Manager - Multi-Channel Events

TAPP Film; United States; On-site; USD 83,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

The Contractor Senior Program Manager at TAPP Film will lead planning and delivery of integrated, multi-workstream communication and event marketing programs for a specific client, from inception through completion. You will provide structure, leadership, and oversight to ensure on-time, within-scope, and on-budget results of consistently high quality.

You will coordinate across Strategy, Creative, Production, and external partners, translating client context into actionable direction, and

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex, integrated programs across experiential, campaign, live event, strategy, creative, and digital work.
• Fluency in strategy and creative development workflows to build workplans and set expectations with clients.
• Strong project and financial management skills, including scope, budgets, forecasting, resource planning, and financial tracking.
• Exceptional organization and information synthesis, translating complex inputs into clear priorities, responsibilities, and actionable direction.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to anticipate risks, navigate ambiguity, and recommend solutions.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and influence, with the ability to align teams and drive accountability without direct authority.
• Exceptional client and executive communication skills, with the ability to build trust, manage expectations, and guide decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams and client stakeholders, managing expectations and providing strategic guidance throughout the engagement lifecycle.
• Define scopes, objectives, and success metrics; secure alignment on budgets, timelines, and deliverables both internally and externally.
• Anticipate risks and proactively manage scope changes, aligning internal teams and advising clients on recommended solutions.
• Delegate appropriate project responsibilities to cross-functional team members; establish clear ownership and follow through on outcomes.
• Provide oversight and structure so teams can work efficiently, collaborate effectively, and focus on producing exceptional work.
• Structure projects with evolving requirements, incomplete information, or shifting priorities, translating available information into a clear path forward.
• Consult with account agency leads on resourcing of vendors and partners as well as internal resources.
• Build and maintain detailed project plans, workback schedules, milestones, dependencies, budgets, responsibilities, and deliverables.
• Establish alignment at project kickoff on objectives, scope, timing, budget, roles, decision-making processes, workflows, communication expectations, and measures of success.
• Manage information and communications throughout the project lifecycle, documenting decisions and action items, maintaining accurate project records, and proactively adjusting plans as risks, resources, scope, or priorities change.
• Partner with the Account Director to align client expectations, priorities, budgets, talent resourcing, contractual commitments, and deadlines with the broader project team.
• Coordinate across Strategy, Creative, Production, specialty teams, and external partners to align resources, dependencies, handoffs, and realistic timelines for development, review, and approval.
• Facilitate cross-functional communication, translating client context and feedback into clear, actionable direction and ensuring teams understand how strategy, creative, production requirements, and client objectives connect.
• Translate client context and feedback into actionable direction, ensuring teams understand how strategy, creative, production requirements, and client objectives connect.
• Optimize cross-functional workflows and tools to clarify roles and responsibilities, ensure accountability, improve handoffs, and support team efficiency and scalability.
• Drive project execution against approved scope, timelines, milestones, budgets, and deliverables, prioritizing work as needed to maintain progress.
• Manage scope and change orders, identifying out-of-scope requests and partner with the Agency Account Director to communicate internally and externally all impacts to budget, timing, resources, and deliverables.
• Manage project financial health, monitoring budgets and up-to-date tracking of time utilization to provide regular accounting updates to the internal teams and clients and proactively escalating risks or variances to the appropriate stakeholders.
• Coordinate review and approval cycles, ensuring client feedback is consolidated, actionable, and delivered in time to protect the schedule.
• Ensure quality and delivery standards across all deliverables, maintaining brand integrity and technical accuracy.
• Facilitate project closeout and debriefs with internal teams, clients, and external partners to evaluate outcomes, metrics, and key learnings.
• Drive post-program reporting, synthesizing results, insights, and recommendations to inform future program strategy and client opportunities.
• Oversee financial reconciliation and project closeout, ensuring programs are delivered within approved budgets and final documentation and assets are properly archived.

Skills

Leadership

Budget forecasting

Client communication

Risk management

Program management

Stakeholder mgmt

Job description

The Contractor Senior Program Manager at TAPP Film will lead planning and delivery of integrated, multi-workstream communication and event marketing programs for a specific client, from inception through completion. You will provide structure, leadership, and oversight to ensure on-time, within-scope, and on-budget results of consistently high quality.

You will coordinate across Strategy, Creative, Production, and external partners, translating client context into actionable direction, and