Agile programma manager Automation - HVW CAPAC
Description
CAPAC is looking for an Agile Automation Program Manager responsible for structuring, leading and coordinating the digitization and automation of its back-end services. The role also ensures compliance with architectural and security standards. The consultant orchestrates a multidisciplinary team and works closely with the Strategy team, PMO and involved departments. The mission sits at the heart of CAPAC's core business related to unemployment benefit payments.
The Automation release train covers initiatives end to end, including design, analysis, development, production deployment and maintenance. Its purpose is to improve the efficiency, interoperability, security, modularity and automation of programs supporting CAPAC's core business. Several projects are already underway and must be ordered and prioritized according to the ambitions of the management contract and administration plan. The Program Manager helps establish dependencies and relative priorities together with the Automation train manager, enterprise architect, DPO and CISO.
Within a relatively small public organization, the consultant must act as a structuring force and accelerator. The context requires pragmatism, versatility and a willingness to perform concrete tasks when needed to unblock situations. The mission emphasizes knowledge transfer, coaching and the establishment of lightweight, clear and sustainable governance. It also requires maintaining roadmap coherence and quality without sacrificing execution speed or a hands-on mentality.
Top Reasons to Apply
Strategic public transformation
Multidisciplinary team leadership
End-to-end automation
Tangible organizational impact
Coaching and autonomy
Detailed Responsibilities and Skills
Additional Responsibilities
- Establish governance rituals reporting
- Monitor risks and dependencies
- Ensure strategic roadmap alignment
- Coordinate key stakeholders
- Produce progress status deliverables
- Organize work around objectives
- Ensure knowledge transfer coaching
- Install pragmatic sustainable governance
- Maintain roadmap priority coherence
- Ensure quality execution speed
General skills
- Proven program management experience in public or complex environments.
- Experience with Agile collaboration models in medium-sized or small organizations.
- People management skills in a non-hierarchical context.
- Ability to quickly understand the context, subject matter, dependencies and criticality.
- Ability to coach and develop more junior profiles.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills.
- Ability to present results to the management team.
- Ability to switch between conceptual tasks and concrete execution work.
- Pragmatism and versatility to deliver tangible results.
- Expert-level communicative and teamplayer capabilities.
- Mandatory participation in steering committees.
- Mandatory participation in program increments.
- Presence five days per week.
- On-site presence at key moments and for team support.
- French: active knowledge required.
- Dutch: active knowledge required.
Technical skills
- Expertise in multi-project management, governance, reporting and risk management.
- Knowledge of project management techniques: scoping, resource and budget planning, risk management, activity monitoring and coordination.
- Knowledge of program management techniques: defining expected benefits, structuring and prioritizing projects, managing interdependencies, strategic alignment and monitoring benefit realization.
- Expert-level Agile skills.
- Expert-level Backend knowledge.
- Expert-level people management in a project context.
- Expert-level Program & Project management.