Technical Activities Program Manager (E5978B)

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.; Piscataway Township (NJ); In loco; USD 115.000 - 155.000; Tempo pieno

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IEEE, a leading professional association for the advancement of technology, seeks a seasoned program manager to lead, manage, and guide strategic initiatives within the Technical Activities organization. You will collaborate across IEEE societies, councils, volunteers, staff, and external partners to plan and execute programs that span multiple platforms and audiences.

The role emphasizes cross-functional coordination, risk mitigation, and delivering actionable analyses and solutions.

Mansioni

• Program Management (60%): Develops program, project, and operational plans in support of strategic initiatives.
• Maintains high quality levels in the programs and high integrity business approaches to satisfy IEEE, volunteers, and customers.
• Mitigates risks associated with programs and considers legal and regulatory compliance issues.
• Assures timely and effective communications of key issues, operations, strategies and program development to all customers and stakeholders within TA and across IEEE.
• Gathers, interprets, and prioritizes customer business needs and translates them into program, platform, product, operational, and customer requirements.
• Determines and/or recommends the resources required to sustain programs.
• Supports Technical Activities strategic initiatives, leadership, and IEEE stakeholders in identifying and establishing strategic long-term technical solutions goals, policies, and procedures.
• Manages day to day logistics and activities of assigned programs in accordance with IEEE policies & procedures.
• Delivers analytical and technical solutions that support strategic initiatives.
• Other program duties as assigned.
• Project Management (40%) for assigned ad hoc projects and projects of select strategic initiatives: Defines the scope and detailed requirements of projects in collaboration with senior staff and volunteer leadership.
• Creates detailed work plans and project schedules which identify the activities needed to complete the project.
• Allocates resources required to complete project.
• Establishes a communication schedule to provide progress reports to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Drives forward motion of the project and reports on issues in a timely manner.
• Manages day to day logistics and activities of assigned projects in accordance with IEEE policies & procedures.
• Other project duties as assigned.

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Job Summary

The overall purpose of this position is to lead, manage, guide, support, plan, and/or implement select programs that support strategic initiatives within the Technical Activities (TA) organization. The programs will vary in scale and scope, including programs that serve all IEEE technical societies, councils, and communities, and/or all of IEEE.

These programs often involve cross-organization information processing and management, process development, databases, reporting platforms, websites, web applications, and other online platforms.

This position will work in close partnership with numerous volunteers, staff, and collaborators within IEEE, including TA, IEEE technical societies and councils, Marketing, IT, Legal, and others.

The key responsibilities for this position are creating, executing, and/or managing assigned programs; developing necessary strategies and operational plans to achieve an integrated, sustainable operational state for each program; and providing oversight, operational support, and/or project management for other projects and programs as assigned.

This role requires a seasoned, technically savvy, creative thinker with strong collaboration skills who works effectively in a demanding, consensus-building, fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholders.

This position reports to the Technical Solutions and Platforms Director and has no direct reports.

Key Responsibilities

• Program Management (60%):
• Develops program, project, and operational plans in support of strategic initiatives.
• Manages and administers technical solutions and platforms used by select assigned strategic programs.
• Maintains high quality levels in the programs and high integrity business approaches to satisfy IEEE, volunteers, and customers.
• Mitigates risks associated with programs and considers legal and regulatory compliance issues.
• Assures timely and effective communications of key issues, operations, strategies and program development to all customers and stakeholders within TA and across IEEE.
• Gathers, interprets, and prioritizes customer business needs and translates them into program, platform, product, operational, and customer requirements.
• Determines and/or recommends the resources (time, money, equipment, etc.) required to sustain programs.
• Supports Technical Activities strategic initiatives, leadership, and IEEE stakeholders in identifying and establishing strategic long-term technical solutions goals, policies, and procedures for select programs based on business objectives.
• Manages day to day logistics and activities of assigned programs in accordance with IEEE policies & procedures.
• Delivers, and facilitates the delivery of, analytical and technical solutions that support strategic initiatives.
• Other program duties as assigned.
• Project Management (40%) for assigned ad hoc projects and projects of select strategic initiatives:
• Defines the scope and detailed requirements of projects in collaboration with senior staff and volunteer leadership.
• Based on defined project requirements, creates detailed work plans and project schedules which identify and sequence the activities needed to successfully complete the project.
• Effectively identifies and works with senior leadership to allocate the resources (time, money, equipment, etc.) required to complete project.
• Establishes a communication schedule to periodically provide written progress reports and periodically review the project schedule with senior leadership and all stakeholders that will be affected by the project activities; Revises the project schedule and communications schedule as required.
• Drives forward motion of the project and reports on issues in a timely manner to staff and volunteer leadership.
• Manages day to day logistics and activities of assigned projects in accordance with IEEE policies & procedures.
• Other project duties as assigned.

Travel Information

• 5% Domestic and International