Job Description

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Our Program Director is responsible for planning, overseeing and leading projects from ideation through to completion. This is a senior role at International SOS and requires interaction with a range of internal and external stakeholders. Our ideal Program Director is proactive and drives the project and going to get a decision instead of requesting for one.

As a role that focuses on completing a project as efficiently and promptly as possible, expect to see any of the following duties and responsibilities in a Program Director job description:

• Lead and drive project execution from initiation till handover and completion

• Leading project planning sessions

• Coordinating staff and internal resources

• Managing project progress and adapt work as required

• Review and revise scope in light of any new information and/or changes to initial assumptions, including implications for project time, cost, quality and risk

• Ensure adherence to enterprise methodologies and processes, and provide input to develop and improve such methodologies and processes, to meet best practice and ensure regulatory compliance;

• Ensuring projects meet deadlines

• Managing relationships with clients and stakeholders

• Designing and signing off on contracts

• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation

• Overseeing all incoming and outgoing project documentation

Required Work Experience

• Experience and Knowledge of Cloud services and specific AWS
• Experience and knowledge on digital transformations and building a digital platform, including the interface to the organisational backbone.
• Experience in Project Management and able to lead and guide developers, and work with internal and offshore development team to deliver systems according to specifications
• Experience in working in environment where structured SDLC (waterfall and agile), Project Delivery

Methodology and ITIL methodology is practiced;

• Proficiency in JIRA or similar project tracking/issue tracking tool

Required Qualifications

A Program Director should include degrees in any of the following fields:

• Engineering
• IT or Computer Science
• Business or Business Administration
• Management
• Postgraduate qualifications in Project Management (Prince2/PMI accreditation) is desirable