Responsible for significant, company-wide projects, typically with large budgets and sizeable staff, focused on meeting project commitments, including communications with sponsors and stakeholders; Leads the design, testing, planning, and implementation of complex projects within the organization business portfolio.
Job Responsibilities
Planning, development and implementation.
Lead the development and implementation of a broad, coordinated set of plans and programs to meet the goals and priorities of the technology business.
Participate in external wide activities to maintain knowledge on developments in the field. Establish liaisons with key stakeholders and other vendor users to keep abreast of status of computing and communications activities across all business segments.
Project planning, coordination and communication
Continuously improve project management toolkits and methodologies used within the organization. Provide expertise and consulting to project managers in the project management processes.
Drive projects organizational change taking full account of obstacles, opposition, and differing stakeholder priorities. Acts as a champion for business process changes; act behind the scenes to craft solutions for business problems related to the project.
Manage the program’s budget, monitoring the expenditure and costs against program benefits as well as providing audit data as required.
Assists in the preparation of proposals and project plans for all phases in planning, development and implementation.
Prepares business cases for selected projects.
Prepares, monitors, and analyzes the budget.
Maintains, develops and provides reports for projects and budget analysis.
Tracks and monitors progress of issues through interpretation of policies, standard practices, procedures and collective agreements to identify interventions and resolutions.
Leadership and Supervision.
Provide mentoring, coaching and direction to the various team members’ and project managers. Ensure project team, staff and manager training and development.
Conducts performance enhancement process in accordance with standard practice.
Manages personnel issues that arise between performance planning activities.
Manages and allocates workload when necessary and helps define priorities.
Arranges for coverage for all vacation and long-term absences as required.
Provides leadership by disseminating information, providing feedback, advising, and coaching.
Qualifications
Graduate degree or Master’s Degree in the project management field from a reputable institution.
Acquired relevant certifications in project management
Minimum 10 years of increasingly responsible experience, with at least five years of managing increasingly complex projects in a technology environment.
Able to work effectively and efficiently toward goals in a complex, diverse environment with multiple and changing demands. Known for effective leadership of staff and passion for client satisfaction.
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