Auraria) Technical Program Manager

This is a Non-Classified position, performing the outlined duties with the Auraria Higher Education Center.

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Auraria Campus located in the Platte River Valley in downtown Denver. The Auraria Campus is the service provider for 38,000 students and approximately 5000 faculty and staff working at and attending the Community College of Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and the University of Colorado Denver
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Auraria employees enjoy an excellent benefits package which includes paid vacation, holidays, and sick leave, multiple medical, dental and vision options, discounted RTD Eco-Pass, Benefit Hub and outstanding retirement plan.

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So, if you're interested in a great job working alongside great people, this may be the opportunity for which you've been waiting for.

Reporting to the Director of Strategy, and working closely with the Information Technology Department, the Technical Program Manager leads enterprise-wide and departmental technology initiatives within AHEC’s Strategy department. This role manages multiple concurrent projects, partnering with technical teams, stakeholders, vendors, and leadership to deliver technology solutions that advance institutional goals. The role develops and executes project plans, manages risk, facilitates decision making, and communicates effectively with technical and non-technical audiences within a cloud-forward, vendor-integrated, data-driven environment.

This position will manage high visibility, campus-impacting initiatives, collaborating with technical and functional stakeholders, and vendors to design and implement solutions that advance AHEC’s goals and support success

• Lead enterprise technology projects including SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, AV, data, integration, and business process initiatives.
• Develop charters, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and risk strategies. Coordinate cross-functional teams, manage vendors, facilitate governance, monitor scope/schedule/budget, resolve issues, and ensure alignment with institutional priorities.
• Leads and coordinate enterprise system migration initiatives, including software implementation, platform consolidation, cloud migration, data migration, system upgrades, and application lifecycle transitions.
• Develop migration roadmaps, piloting and testing, and ensuring successful adoption of new technologies while minimizing operational disruption. Partners with IT and business unit stakeholders to assess technology environments, participating in software and system reviews.
• Identifies operational, cybersecurity, compliance, and business continuity risks.
• Supports the development and implementation of risk mitigation strategies.

• Develop and maintains project management methodologies, standards, templates, and governance practices.
• Develops and maintains project intake, prioritization, reporting, and portfolio management processes.
• Analyze project performance, lessons learned, and organizational practices to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Recommends and implements process improvements to increase project consistency, efficiency, and effectiveness.
• Establishes and maintains processes for monitoring the organization’s technology project portfolio.

• Educate employees or clients on how to use computer hardware, software applications, and internal technical systems.
• Coordinates and delivers training to affected employees and stakeholders during technology implementations.
• Teach cyber security policies, hardware setup, and…