Accountabilities and Duties
- Leading the team and taking responsibility for achieving the project objectives and stakeholders’ expectations
- Ensuring that the project management plan aligns with QSIT overall strategic plan as well as communicating and cascading the strategy to the team
- Collaborating with different roles, such as a business analyst, quality assurance manager, and subject matter experts
- Communicating between the project sponsor, team members, and other stakeholders
- Balancing the conflicting and competing goals of the project stakeholders in order to achieve consensus
- Balancing the competing constraints on the project with the resources available
- Satisfying the needs: task needs, team needs, and individual needs
- Evaluating and analyzing activities prior to project initiation; these activities include:
- Consulting with executives and business unit leaders on ideas for advancing strategic objectives
- Improving organizational performance
- Meeting customer needs
- Managing business analysis, business case development, and aspects of portfolio management
- Providing the team with leadership, planning and coordination through effective communication
- Communicating with stakeholders, team and sponsors across multiple aspects of the project:
- Creates, maintains and adheres to communications plans and schedules
- Communicates predictably and consistently
- Seeks to understand the project stakeholders’ and communicating needs
- Makes communication concise, clear, complete, simple, relevant, and tailored
- Incorporating feedback channels
- Includes important positive and negative news
- Uses formal and informal networks allows project manager to engage multiple people in solving problems and navigating
- Interacts with managers within the organization during the course of the project
- Works with the sponsor to address internal political and strategic issues that may impact the team or the viability or the quality of the project
Experience and Qualifications Required:
- Bachelor of Computer science or equivalent
- PMP Certification in good standing is a must
- Minimum 7-10 years’ experience of project management with a successful track record of delivery
- Mastery of Enterprise project management software applications
- GIS knowledge is preferred