Responsibilities
* Creates and Maintains Project Plans: Develops, and continually updates, detailed project/program management plans. Develops work breakdown structures based on the project objectives and scope. Ensures PM methodology is adhered to.
• To understand high-level technical architecture and be able to facilitate debate and drive decisions on appropriate solutions.
* Supports the Management of the IT Infrastructure Project Portfolio: Work with appropriate IT and business stakeholders to define, prioritize and manage the pipeline of potential future IT infrastructure projects. Work with stakeholders on reporting the current status of all projects based on established project management criteria. Facilitate the process to accelerate, decelerate, add to or remove projects from the portfolio.
* Manage Project Status Reporting: Prepares status reports to convey project scope, goals, milestones, budget, risk, status, change requests, and critical issues to the client and project team.
* Develop and Maintain Project Schedules: Incorporates regular updates from each functional team.
* Lead Project Cost Estimation and Ongoing Budget Tracking: Provides budget information to Project Managers. Assists in developing costs estimates and analyzing data.
* Perform Project Resource Management: Provides work direction and leadership to assigned projects, including scheduling, assignment of work and review of project efforts. Identifies project resource requirements and staff assignments. Checks for staff availabilities. Updates the project plan with work assignments.
* Conducts Risk Management: Maintains documentation for identified risks and mitigation strategies. Proactively gathers and updates risk status and documentation as needed.
* Support Stakeholder Management: Works with technology and business owners to analyze stakeholder expectations for projects based upon approved project requirements.
* Integrate Project Business Analysis: Works with project team members and stakeholders to integrate technical and functional changes to projects into work assignment and schedules
* Provide Overall Project Administration: Conduct program team meetings, proactively documents meeting minutes, track issues, decisions and action items, and follow-up between meetings to drive issues to closure.
• To monitor and manage the project processes and ensure that any elements which fail in the workflow are remedied.
* Other Support Duties as Needed: Performs other duties or special projects as required or as assigned
Profile required
Experience of successfully managing the delivery of multiple projects in Infrastructure domain
Track record of delivering IT infrastructure projects within a technically complex and dynamic environment, specifically that required to support multiple business projects.
• Experience of successfully engaging management and groups of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of Project Management, e.g. Managing Successful Projects (MSP), Prince2 and agile project management tools and methodologies.
• Experience of managing business change
• Able to demonstrate strong management skills including project management, financial management, change management and facilitation.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
• Ability to cope in a technically complex and fast-changing environment, and to respond calmly and rationally to changing aspirations in a deadline-driven situation.
• Strong planning and organizing skills including the ability to manage several work streams simultaneously.
• Determination and focus to drive projects through to implementation.
• Excellent communication skills with a capacity to present, discuss and explain issues coherently and logically both in writing and verbally.
• Good influencing and persuasion skills with the ability to enthuse and inspire multidisciplinary teams and build successful relationships at all levels.
• Good team player, self-motivated and able to work on own initiative.
• Computer literate, able to quickly and efficiently use a wide range of common Office software including Word, Excel, Project and Power Point).
• Clear decision-making ability with the facility to judge complex situations and assess when to escalate issues.
• Ability to balance conflicting and changing demands through prioritisation and a pragmatic approach
COMPETANCIES
The following competencies (behaviours and characteristics) have been identified as key to success in the job. Successful candidates are expected to demonstrate all of these competencies:
Resilience:
Can maintain personal effectiveness by managing own emotions in the face of pressure, setbacks or when dealing with provocative situations. Can demonstrate an approach to work that is characterised by commitment, motivation and energy.
Influencing and Persuading:
Ability to present sound and well-reasoned arguments to convince others. Can draw from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behaviour change
Communication:
The ability to get one’s message understood clearly by adopting a range of styles, tools and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information.
Business Management:
Is able to understand commercial imperatives and trading relationships, appropriately applies business principles in terms of costs, the market and added value.
Managing Relationships:
Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of people.
Initiative:
Demonstrates a pro-active approach. Does more than is required or expected in the job, to improve or enhance job results or avoid problems.
Concern for Results:
Shows concern to work effectively or to compete against a standard of excellence. This may be an individual’s own past performance, an objective measure, the performance of others, goals etc.
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