IT Program/Project Manager – Cybersecurity Program

Role overview

Program and project delivery

• Lead planning, execution, and delivery of three cybersecurity projects.
• Develop and maintain project charters, plans, schedules, milestones, and closeout documentation.
• Coordinate resources, dependencies, priorities, and deliverables; monitor scope, schedule, and budget.
• Comply with IT PMO methodologies, governance requirements, and university policies.

Risk, reporting, and stakeholders

• Manage and escalate risks, issues, dependencies, and changes; prepare monthly status reports, budget trackers, forecasts, and financial reconciliations.
• Maintain project records, decision logs, and change documentation; provide recommendations and strategic input to IT leadership.
• Collaborate with executive sponsors, technical teams, vendors, business stakeholders, and university departments.
• Lead change management, stakeholder engagement, communications, readiness, and training.

Solution delivery and transition

• Coordinate PIAs, security assessments, business requirements, design documents, and release documentation.
• Keep deliverables accurate and complete in the official project repository.
• Support implementation, operational transition, lessons learned, and project closure.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of project management experience, preferably in complex IT environments; experience managing multiple concurrent projects through their full lifecycle.
• Knowledge of project governance, risk management, budgeting, forecasting, and organizational change management.
• Strong communication, negotiation, stakeholder engagement, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business, or related field; PMP certification required.
• Preferred: ITIL Foundation, program management, cybersecurity delivery, post-secondary/public-sector experience, financial management, strategic planning, and organizational change experience.