IT Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation, and satisfactory completion of medium-scale and large-scale projects (typically with direct business impact and firm deadlines).
• Identifies, assesses, and manages risks to the success of the project.
• Ensures that realistic project plans are maintained and ensures regular and accurate communication to stakeholders.
• Adopts appropriate project management methods and tools whether predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
• Ensures quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure.
• Manages the change control procedure and ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale, and resource budgets, and are signed off.
• Provides effective leadership to the project team and takes appropriate action if team performance deviates from agreed tolerances.
• Manges resources, revenue and capital costs against the project budget and manages expectations of all project stakeholders.
• Ensures end results are of the highest caliber with a clearly articulated scope and quantifiable business benefits.
• Leads and manages projects often involving multiple internal and external constituents and matrix partners.
• Manages scope and risk to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed upon time, cost, and quality parameters.
• Marks, controls, and validates financial forecast, resources, and capital costs against the project budget and provides ongoing reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures in alignment with project stakeholders’ expectations.
• Develops communication plans and appropriate vehicles to execute on responsibilities.
• Represents the project in briefings to sponsors, key stakeholders, governance, and inter-department forums.
• Defines and tracks project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated project schedule and delivery plan.
• Develops the project charter, integrated project plan, resource plan, risk plan, and related project management artifacts; publishes periodic project status reports.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated understanding of USP's mission and commitment to excellence through inclusive and equitable behaviors and practices.
• Ability to quickly build credibility with stakeholders.
• Minimum of five (5) years of demonstrated outcomes delivery across different types of high-value IT projects or equivalent experience of which three (3) years should be hands-on project management in an IT environment managing a variety of complex projects.
• Communicates fluently, orally and in writing, and can present complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated experience successfully managing multiple projects within agreed to scope, schedule and budget.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, communication skills, facilitation skills, and the ability to assess and manage client expectations.
• Experience in dealing with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information.
• Experience in vendor management and contract management.