Project Manager

The Project Management Office has the responsibility to assist departments and agencies of the city in the implementation of significant technology projects and to undertake the project management of enterprise, infrastructure, innovation, or IT departmental initiatives as directed by the Deputy CIO - Chief Project Management Officer. Project Managers are the leaders of transformative, critical, in-depth IT projects across the city, and are needed to analyze and document business needs and processes, organize around problem/opportunity, plan and remediate troubled projects, and ensure new initiatives are planned, launched and executed correctly. These projects range in size and complexity from simple, straightforward software updates to enterprise-wide, multi-million-dollar large-scale platform implementations.Essential FunctionsDevelop, clarify and manage the scope of the project, defines contract deliverables and achieves 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/ensures 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 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 associatesCompetencies, Knowledge, Skills and AbilitiesDemonstrate 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 lifecycleCommunicate (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 effortDemonstrate experience and relevant expertise in the design and building of distributed and enterprise solutionsPlan, 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.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)