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/Preferred
- 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 preferred.
- Any equivalent combination of education and experience determined to be acceptable by the Office of Innovation & Technology and Human Resources.