Ref: OP971-41

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Overall Purpose of Role:
The role of Program Management Office Analyst is to support the Program Management Office Team including:

• Through knowledge on SLDC, Project Management, PMO & agile Methodology.
• Experienced in providing PMO support for Waterfall, Iterative Incremental & Agile Projects.
• Experience in managing IT projects using Scrum framework & familiar with using Jira.
• Tracking status of program deliverables and milestones
• Supporting the adoption of the project lifecycle and deliverables;
• Program level risk and issue coordination
• Monitoring the status of projects transitioning into Operations
• Coordination of the regular project and program level reporting cycles;
• co-ordination of project Governance arrangements,
• Project Deliverables Reviews, Program level workshops.

Additional responsibilities include assisting the PMO Manager with defining and updating the project management processes, standards and governance, assisting Project Managers on large projects, contributing to Quality Reviews, and co-ordinating activities in support of quality objectives.

At times the PMO Analyst may be asked to provide project support, when this is the case this will include, amongst other things, ensuring project plans and project documentation are complete and up-to-date, provide regular project status updates.

Main Activities and Responsibilities for supporting the Program Management Office Team include:

Governance & Control:
• Implement governance standards across the portfolio, including tracking, monitoring and updating the status of Program deliverables
• Manage Program Level Lessons Learned repository; attend Post Project Review meetings to identify key areas of improvement to be captured into the Lessons Learnt repository
• Manage the Program level risks and issues register
• Carry out assurance review processes as required by the PMO Manager.
• Liaise with staff in other PMOs so that standards are implemented consistently across Projects.

Planning, Reporting & Control:
• Work with the PMO manager to develop the IT Project Standards guide, seeking contributions from Project Managers, QA Team, Development Team and Service Implementation Lead to ensure that the Standards meet best practice.
• Organize workshops to identify areas of improvement for projects, documenting recommendations and presenting them for continuous improvement.
• Build up a repository of project templates both technical and management to support the Project Managers – use examples from current and past projects to identify best practice
• Continue to evolve the processes and templates throughout the project lifecycle
• Implement project standards across all projects in the portfolio
• Update and administer the Program plan as required using reports from Project Managers and the outcomes of project and board level meetings and workshops
• Prepare consolidated material from project reports for monthly review
• Complete and distribute monthly portfolio level reports. Project management
• Support implementation of the quality strategy, including any processes and templates, across all projects
• Implement the change control process across all projects and portfolios.

PMO Analyst responsibilities when providing project support include:
• Supporting the definition of small/medium project Business Cases (scope, goals, deliverables, costs, timescales, plans, dependencies, resource requirements and milestones)
• Ensuring pre-scope project plan is communicated to all project stakeholders together with their individual responsibilities. Project Management
• Providing effective management support to project teams on small to medium sized projects, or assisting Project Managers on streams of other large projects
• Co-ordination of publication, review and sign-off of major Project Management deliverables
• Ensuring project plans are created and maintained, deliverables tracked against time and cost, and resource utilization is monitored
• Monitoring and reporting on progress of the project to the Project Board and all stakeholders
• Co-ordinating quality activities to meet quality objectives. Managing project risks, issues and change control, communicating the impact to the project
• Monitoring projects against time, budget and quality standards. Post-Project

Requirements

Years of Experience: 5 to 8 years

Qualification:
• Degree or equivalent
• PMP Certification (Good to have)
• Certified Scrum Master (Good to have)
• Experience of Program co-ordination/administration
• Experience of managing small projects, or exposure to the end to end project lifecycle, or managing substantial parts of the project lifecycle
• Experience of working within a structured project management framework
• Knowledge of project management tools and techniques.

Work Based Competencies Essential:
• Knowledge and experience of Microsoft packages, including Project, Powerpoint, Word and Excel
• Strong communications skills, both written and verbal
• Understanding of the importance for detail and organization
• Skill at managing stakeholder groups and balancing diplomacy and tact with assertiveness
• Very good prioritization skills to balance key priorities
• A strong customer centric approach.

Behavioral Competencies Essential:
• Is effective in unifying and creating teams of people with disparate skills
• Is courageous and decisive, prioritizes effectively, maintains a clear focus and sees action through to delivery
• Is energetic, determined, positive, goal focused and consistent - even under pressure
• Builds trust and demonstrates integrity in all circumstances.

About the Company

Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant combines a passion for client satisfaction, technology innovation, deep industry and business process expertise and a global, collaborative workforce that embodies the future of work. With over 50 delivery centers worldwide and approximately 211,500 employees as of December 31, 2014, Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000 and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.

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