[Remote] IT Program Coordinator / PMO Analyst
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. IT Associates is seeking an IT Program Coordinator / PMO Analyst for a complex Cloud Migration program. The role involves supporting the Program Manager, maintaining the Integrated Project Plan, and ensuring reliable delivery execution across multiple teams and initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and update the Integrated Project Plan (IPP) as the system of record for deliverables, dependencies, and sequencing
- Maintain explicit dependency mapping across deliverables and migration waves
- Identify patterns of converging risks, delays, and dependencies that may impact delivery stability
- Identify schedule slippage early and propose mitigation options
- Enforce plan integrity by ensuring status, dependencies, and RAID data are accurate, current, and decision-grade
- Establish and enforce structure where data, ownership, or processes are incomplete or inconsistent
- Maintain RAID registers with clear deliverable linkage, ownership, due dates, and closure criteria
- Facilitate RAID review sessions and escalate blockers systematically
- Ensure all RAID items are linked to impacted deliverables within the plan
Skills
- 12 months + REMOTE contract
- Occasional travel to Chicago (expenses paid)
- Multi year complex Cloud Migration program involving 50+ applications, 10+ teams, and multi‑phase timelines
- Role Supports the Program Manager
- Execution operations focused professional who thrives in complex delivery environments
- Identifies risks early
- Enforces delivery discipline
- Assists the Program Manager to keep a large program stable and predictable
- Drive structured, reliable delivery execution across complex, multi-team initiatives
- Own and maintain the Integrated Project Plan (IPP)
- Ensure deliverables, dependencies, and sequencing remain accurate, aligned, and actionable
- Proactively identify risks, delays, and dependency conflicts
- Leverage RAID management to surface issues early, drive resolution, and maintain delivery stability
- Strong project management fundamentals and tooling
- Enforce plan integrity
- Monitor schedule performance
- Implement mitigation strategies as needed
- Strong execution control
- Systems thinking
- Operational discipline
- Ensure data accuracy, consistent processes, and decision-ready visibility, even in evolving or ambiguous environments
- PMI frameworks (PMBOK / Agile/ Hybrid methodologies)
- Schedule management techniques (critical path, dependencies, resource leveling)
- RAID management frameworks and escalation protocols
- Change control and configuration management processes
- SmartSheet, Jira, MS Projects
- Maintain and update the Integrated Project Plan (IPP) as the system of record for deliverables, dependencies, and sequencing
- Maintain explicit dependency mapping across deliverables and migration waves
- Identify patterns of converging risks, delays, and dependencies that may impact delivery stability
- Identify schedule slippage early and propose mitigation options
- Enforce plan integrity by ensuring status, dependencies, and RAID data are accurate, current, and decision-grade
- Establish and enforce structure where data, ownership, or processes are incomplete or inconsistent
- Maintain RAID registers with clear deliverable linkage, ownership, due dates, and closure criteria
- Facilitate RAID review sessions and escalate blockers systematically
- Ensure all RAID items are linked to impacted deliverables within the plan
- See downstream impacts of upstream delays across migration waves
- Recognize patterns in RAID data (recurring issue types, bottleneck teams)
- Spot early warning signals in schedule variance trends
- Maintain plan hygiene under pressure (accurate updates, no drift in RAID status)
- Execute repeatable update cycles (daily RAID scrubs, weekly baseline reviews)
- Enforce data entry standards across distributed teams
- Proactively surface risks before they become issues
- Maintain decision-grade status (actionable, current, complete)
- Operate effectively in environments where processes, data, and ownership are still maturing
Benefits
- A range of medical, dental, retirement and/or other benefits are available after a waiting period.
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