Job Summary
To provide advanced project management services and to develop, maintain, and enhance operational business relationships.
Job Description
Project Management: Monitors the progression of a project at every stage and ensures that the objectives of a project are met.
The Project Manager is accountable for:
Managing relationships with the project stakeholders and customers
Creating and maintaining a consistent, coherent project plan that can be used to guide project execution and project control
Planning, defining the scope of the project, and controlling changes
Formalizing acceptance of the scope by stakeholders
Planning, defining the schedule of the project, and controlling changes
Planning resources, estimating cost, allocating project budget, and controlling changes to the budget
Maintaining quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control for the project
Identifying, documenting, and assigning project roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships
Ensuring timely and appropriate generation and dissemination of project information
Identifying, analyzing, and managing project risks
Deliver & Support
Deliver projects in keeping with cost, quality, schedule, and agreed criteria
Identify, assess, and manage project risks, which could result in time or cost overruns or failure to deliver products that are fit for purpose
Optimize total utilization for all project resources
Ensure the participation and commitment of project stakeholders to project activities/reviews as required
Ensure timely dissemination of appropriate project information to stakeholders
Control changes to project scope, schedule, and budget
Collect and disseminate performance information - status reporting, progress measurement, and forecasting
Manage responses to risks and changes to risks over the course of the project
Generate, gather, and disseminate information to formalize project completion
Ensure that projects are formally closed and, where appropriate, subsequently reviewed, and that lessons learned are captured and published
Plan & Organize
Define, communicate, and gain agreement on the project scope
Estimate costs, schedule, and resource requirements for the successful delivery of the project to an agreed scope
Assist the Business Analyst, as necessary, in the development of a Business Case for the project
Work with the Solution Architect, System Analyst, and Solution Delivery Manager to ensure that the project adheres to enterprise Architectural standards
Divide the major project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components
Identify the specific activities that must be performed to produce the project deliverables
Identify and document dependencies between activities
Analyze activity sequences, activity durations, and resource requirements to prepare the project schedule
Evaluate risks and risk interactions to assess the range of possible project outcomes
Identify procurement requirements
Build and manage project charters, schedules, quality plans, budgets, and communication and risk management plans for projects
Clearly specify the needs of individuals and of the team overall to meet the needs of the project
Education
Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce, and Management Studies (Required)
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