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Project Manager

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The Project Manager for Special Projects is needed to analyze and document business needs and processes, organize around problem/opportunity, plan and remediate troubled special projects, and ensure new initiatives are planned, launched and executed correctly in support of efforts by the CIO on behalf of the Mayor.

Work activities:

  • Develop, clarify and manage the scope of the project, define contract deliverables and achieve targeted outcomes.
  • Ensure project requirements are achieved in a timely fashion and within budget guidelines.
  • Assemble project team, identify needed resources, assign responsibilities and develop timeframes to facilitate successful completion of project activities and deliverables.
  • Determine project costs/ensure delivery on time and within budgetary guidelines.
  • Ensure compatibility and consistency with existing architectural and enterprise standards.
  • Perform cost/benefit analysis of actions and initiatives.
  • Schedule meetings and document meeting minutes.
  • Follow the OIT Project Management practice and prescribed SDLC.
  • Prepare status reports, status summaries and dashboards for presentation to mid and senior level management.
  • Provide support, coaching and mentoring on project management best practices, as requested for project coordinator associates.

Skills/experience of the assigned staff:
Required

  • Demonstrate leadership qualities such as conflict/issue resolution, the ability to run a project or serve as project manager on a program team and can ensure a successful project lifecycle
  • Communicate (verbally and in writing) effectively with stakeholders and senior business leadership of departments and agencies participating in this project.
  • Organize and work effectively with project teams of staff from department and agencies participating in this effort
  • Demonstrate experience and relevant expertise in the design and building of distributed and enterprise solutions
  • Plan, organize and direct the work activities of outside consultants and/or systems analysis and programming personnel assigned on a team.
  • Demonstrate presentation skills, strategic thinking, and high professional ethics.
  • Establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates, departmental officials, outside consultants and vendors.
  • Demonstrate proficiency with the principles of project management, systems delivery life cycle, and budgeting.
  • Concepts and applications of servers, storage, mainframes, monitoring, ITIL, metrics and performance management, disaster recovery, data center facilities management, managed services, and cloud computing.
  • IT project management best practice, principles and techniques. (PMBOK)

Highly Desired/

  • Completion of a Bachelors degree program at an accredited college or university with a major course work in Computer Science, Information Technology or a closely related field.
  • Minimum of 3-5 years Project Management experience managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects
  • 4-6 years of applicable business experience
  • PMP certification or Master's Certificate in Project Management .
  • Any equivalent combination of education and experience determined to be acceptable by the Office of Innovation & Technology and Human Resources.