Project & Program Management III

Astreya; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Astreya seeks a Project & Program Management III to coordinate internal IT projects from initiation to delivery, including network, server, software implementations, and PC deployments. You will lead cross-functional teams, define requirements, assess feasibility, and ensure on-time, on-budget delivery while managing risks and documentation.

Ideal candidates have 5–8 years of PM experience, strong communication, and analytical skills; experience with AI/Automation tools is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 5–8 years of related experience or an equivalent combination
• Experience working with project management teams, resolving conflicts, and meeting schedules
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with strong documentation
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently and learn new tools quickly
• Strong analytical skills: collect, organize, analyze, and report metrics and risks
• Familiarity with various project management methodologies

Responsibilities

• Manages multiple, complex, cross-functional and technical projects.
• Partner with teams during initiation, planning, design, procurement, deployment and post-deployment phases.
• Drive project lifecycle milestones from concept to closure and support change management.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation including schedules, risk analyses, and reviews.
• Define scope and objectives with stakeholders, ensuring technical feasibility.
• Use KPIs and metrics to track performance and provide regular status updates.
• Identify and mitigate risks; drive continuous process improvements across teams.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree (B.S./B.A.)

Tools

SQL

Job description

What this Job Entails:

The Project & Program Management III role is responsible for planning and coordinating all aspects of internal information, system-specific projects from initiation to delivery. Projects often involve network, server, or software implementation and upgrades, and PC deployment. The role coordinates work performed by IT staff and internal customers/partners by defining project requirements, performing feasibility and needs/impact assessments. The role develops detailed project plans and manages all implementation processes including resource allocation, progress tracking, monitoring change control process, testing, documentation, training and on-time delivery within budget constraints. Projects may vary in number, size and complexity.

Scope:

• Resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways
• Seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of their speciality
• Works on problems of a diverse scope
• Receives little instruction on day to day work, general instruction on new assignments

Your Roles and Responsibilities:

• Manages multiple, complex, cross-functional and technical projects.
• Partner with functional teams during initiation, plan, design, procurement, deployment, and post deployment phases.
• Experience with AI/Automation tools and technologies
• Responsible for managing/tracking program milestones, timeline, and overall deliverables.
• Engage in creating and maintaining comprehensive project documentation including schedules, reviews, process documents, risk analysis, etc.
• Define project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Drive the project lifecycle milestones from concept commit through project closure and advocate change management.
• Use metrics and KPIs to measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques, and provide regular status updates.
• Responsible for internal process improvements; remove gaps, across multiple teams and functions.
• Ensure risks are accounted for and provide risk mitigation strategies.
• Primary project point of contact for vendor partners and internal stakeholders.
• Coordinate and assist with regularly scheduled meetings with core teams.
• Evaluate post project results against metrics; recommend or implement changes to improve delivery practices/processes.
• Other duties as required. This list is not meant to be a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities assigned to this position

Required Qualifications/Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree (B.S/B.A) from four-college or university and 5 to 8 years’ related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise
• Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions
• Experience working with project management teams, resolving conflict, and meeting schedule timelines
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, documentation)
• Ability to work on multiple projects and assignments concurrently
• Self-starter who is able to quickly learn new tools and gain familiarity with new processes and technologies with minimal assistance
• In-depth experience creating spreadsheets, presentation material, and project/process documentation
• Strong observational and analytical skills, including: ability to collect, organize, analyze and disseminate significant amounts of information, strong attention to detail and accuracy, ability to track and report metrics, and manage risks
• Proven ability to collaborate with stakeholders and communicate project updates to client executives.
• Familiarity with various project management methodologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Various certifications
• Change management knowledge
• Demonstrate strong analytical skills to collaborate on analytics dashboards, requiring a strong command of SQL queries, debugging data related issues and fetching the right metrics out of the data sets

Physical Demand & Work Environment:

• Must have the ability to perform office-related tasks which may include prolonged sitting or standing
• Must have the ability to move from place to place within an office environment
• Must be able to use a computer
• Must have the ability to communicate effectively
• Some positions may require occasional repetitive motion or movements of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers