Project Manager

About the role

The Senior PM has full responsibility to manage and oversee all aspects of the most complex IT projects to deliver an IT product, service or system. This includes managing both external and internal IT project teams, and interacting with department heads, agency secretaries at the user agency, State control agencies, and individuals of similar status and capacity in the private sector.

Responsibilities

• Determines appropriate products or services with clients or customers to define project scope, requirements and deliverables;
• Develops, modifies or provides input to project plans;
• Implements project plans to meet objectives;
• Captures, coordinates and integrates project activities;
• Makes improvements, solves problems or takes corrective action when problems arise;
• Provides presentations or briefings on all aspects of the project;
• Participates in phase, milestone and final project reviews;
• Identifies project documentation requirements or procedures;
• Develops and implements project schedules and release plans.

Requirements

• Knowledge and experience in customer service;
• Decision making;
• Flexibility;
• Interpersonal skills;
• Leadership;
• Organizational awareness;
• Problem solving, reasoning;
• Team building;
• Oral communication, speaking and writing;
• Business process reengineering;
• Capital planning and investment assessment;
• Contracting/Procurement;
• Cost-benefit analysis;
• Financial management;
• Planning and evaluating;
• Project management;
• Quality assurance;
• Requirements analysis and risk management;
• Configuration, data, and information management;
• Information resources strategy and planning;
• Information technology architecture;
• Information technology performance assessment;
• Infrastructure design;
• Systems integration;
• Systems life cycle;
• Technology awareness.

Qualifications

• Minimum of seven (7) years of broad, extensive and increasingly responsible experience applying PM principles, methods, techniques, and tools;
• At least four (4) years of that experience must have been as a senior PM of one or more large or complex IT project;
• This classification requires the possession of (a) a bachelor’s degree, and (b) a valid Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI).