Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley · 3 months ago
IT Program Manager - Governance and Process
1830 Embarcadero - PALO ALTO
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$79.21/hr - $104.97/hr
5+ years expStanford Health Care Tri-Valley is a leading healthcare organization focused on innovation and patient care. They are seeking an IT Program Manager to establish and enforce governance practices for IT program and project execution, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy and compliance with standards.
Health CareHospitalNon Profit
Responsibilities
Define and implement program governance models, standards, and procedures
Ensure proper documentation, reporting, and escalation paths
Develop, standardize, and optimize IT program and project management processes
Establish templates, workflows, and tools to support program execution
Drive adoption of best practices (Agile, Waterfall, hybrid models)
Monitor IT programs and projects for compliance with governance standards
Ensure initiatives align with strategic priorities and deliver measurable value
Support portfolio reviews, health checks, and audits
Maintain executive dashboards and scorecards
Provide transparent reporting to leadership on progress, risks, and issues
Serve as a bridge between delivery teams, business stakeholders, and executives
Ensure decision-making bodies (steering committees, governance boards) have accurate information
Facilitate communication and alignment across multiple teams
Identify gaps in processes and governance and recommend improvements
Promote lessons learned and knowledge-sharing practices
Drive maturity in program management capabilities across IT
Facilitates Sprint Planning, Release Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Product Demos and Sprint Retrospectives – full Software Development Life Cycle
Manage and effectively deliver features committed to for the Release
Supports team in developing, maintaining and grooming Product Backlog
Removes impediments/blockers in order to keep teams productive
Identifies and manages dependencies with other internal or external teams
Work with the Scrum team and with non-agile Stanford teams to align deliverables
Provides metrics and status to senior management
Support/Collaborate with team members to implement Agile/Scrum best practices
Diligently prepare and collate project progress/status, issues & risks
Meticulously track action items and drive them to closure
Development capacity planning and helping in release scheduling
Work closely with the Technical Development team to identify and communicate critical paths
Participate in reviewing QA and leading UAT plans
Actively manage project risks and issues
Manage multiple work streams
Provide excellent customer service and stellar representation of the web team
Look for opportunities to improve processes
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university
Minimum of three (3) years of experience with SCRUM / Agile methodologies
5 + years of experience in the software/system development industry
Results-oriented approach to projects to achieve core goals
Strong knowledge of SCRUM / Agile project management techniques and procedures
Experience in Jira, Confluence, MS Project, Excel, Visio and other Project Management related software tools
Excellent customer and team management skills
Expertise with A/B testing, multi-variate testing and related tools
Ability to be efficient and productive under pressure
Very organized, able to manage multiple projects concurrently
Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills
Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization
Ability to demonstrate analytical and problem solving skills
Ability to work on multiple overlapping projects
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
Preferred
PMP and/or Agile, Scrum Practitioner certification a plus
Experience with responsive design and native applications on mobile platform a plus
Company
Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley
STANFORD HEALTH CARE TRI-VALLEY Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley (formerly ValleyCare) provides high-quality care rooted in science and compassion to support the health and well-being of its community in the East Bay and beyond.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Reena Jadhav
Board Member, Chair Comp & Workforce
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