We are looking for a Project Manager with focus on helping business sponsors address business issues and implement change management.
Must have great communication skills and high emotional intelligence.
Designs plans and coordinates work teams. Follows standard project management industry practices such as the PMIs framework. Understands business and technical objectives of a project and works closely with project sponsor. Creates project charter and work plan and tracks budget and schedule progress via appropriate metrics. Establishes project organization and methodologies and defines roles and responsibilities. Documents risks and develops mitigation plans. Manages scope.
Creates and implements a communication plan. Builds an effective team assigns tasks to team members and evaluates outcomes. Negotiates resources. Communicates to stakeholders and project sponsor. Identifies tracks and ensures resolution of issues and removal of barriers. Provides technical support to project team members. Handles complex application features and technical designs. Designs and implements the components required for complex application features. Generally manages a group of applications systems analysts. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Professional certification is highly desirable. Project Manager capabilities with 7 or more years of experience. Capable of managing a project with up to ten 10 or more staff and/or a project with multiple subprojects.
Must Have:
Ability and willingness to understand and execute the departments project management methodology.
Experienced project manager or leader
Extensive experience working with consultants and service providers in at least three major projects.
Management of large projects
Ability to meet project deadlines.
Experience producing a wide array of project documentation
Knowledge of project management conflict resolution and incident escalation.
Manage multiple concurrent projects activities and tasks under time constraints
Ability to work independently with direction given by the Project Manager.
Capable of managing a project or subset of a project with up to ten 10 staff.
Experience in project planning
Experience in the use of Project Management tools. Experience using MS Project or other standard project management software is a plus but not required
Experience managing large IT projects for public sector agencies
Experience as a project manager diverse teams where project team members represent different technical skillsets with the ability to bridge communication gaps.
Experience as a Project Manager in a large complex organization.
Expertise with Microsoft Office suite of products such as Word Excel PowerPoint Visio Access MS Project and SharePoint and/or equivalent.
Required Experience:
IC