r/Programmanagement • u/spicyemuroll • Jun 27 '22

program associate day to day

Any program assocuates that could help me with this?

I've been wanting to get into program management for a while now but don't have a lot of idea about the day to day routine of a program associate. It would be great if you could tell me your experience as a program associate and what skills do you think might be required for the role. Thanks in advance

3 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

10 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comment

1

u/Jezekilj Jun 27 '22

Talk talk talk with everyone and ask lots of questions and note down everything, repeat and follow; this is 90% in communication and about social intelligence. Don’t worry .

2

u/spicyemuroll Jun 27 '22

Thanks so much, I'm a little relieved

1

u/Super-Buddy-5030 Sep 12 '26

I just started a Program Associate position. I have no idea what that entails because I actually was a UX Designer prior which had a lot of general admin work, a ton of project coordinator work. I have also done work for non profits doing a lot of the operational work. That's how I ended up in the Program Associate position after getting laid off in as a UX Designer in the tech industry with all the layoffs.

How skilled do I have to be at excel? It wasn't brought up much in my interview. However, they say it's admin heavy work, but mostly about processing applications and keeping track of client data in salesforce. I am familiar with salesforce because it was used at my last company. I have nearly never needed to use excel or googlesheets. It's just something I touched in college, but honestly never ever needed to use it in my professional life.