Desired candidate:

Project/Program Oversights & Delivery:

• Lead or co-manage ITD projects, ensuring they are well-organized and monitored for overall progress and status.
• Support PgM/PM in planning, scheduling, and scoping deliverables to align with defined timelines and objectives.
• Ensure consistent application of ITD’s ‘Project Management Framework (PMF) and Implementing Guidelines for Financial Controls (IGFCs)’.

Monitoring & Reporting:

• Maintain up-to-date project documentation, schedules, and financials.
• Actively manage and track risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and change requests.
• Collaborate with project teams and stakeholders to maintain alignment with expectations.

Direct Project Execution:

• Execute and monitor assigned sub-projects, workstreams, or deliverables to meet quality, time, and budget requirements.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams including vendors, business users, and technical teams.
• May be supported by a Project Administrator for tasks such as:
• Preparing Project Status Reports (PSRs), Budget and Procurement Reports (BPRs), and Apptio budget updates.
• Coordinating Steering Committee materials, meeting minutes, and project audits.
• Maintaining the program/project’s documentation repository.

Knowledge Transfer and Support

• Support capability development of other staff by sharing best practices, tools, and experiences.
• Perform additional program- or project-related assignments as required by ITPM leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8 years in Project Management with a successful track record of delivering complex IT projects.

Technical Knowledge:

• Demonstrated experience managing software or IT infrastructure/network projects using traditional and agile methodologies.
• Solid foundation in both theoretical and practical aspects of project and program management.
• Strategic planning and execution skills, especially in cross-functional environments.
• Strong understanding of:
• Solution development life cycles (SDLC)
• Risk, resources and people management
• Application programming, database/system design, and testing
• Agile delivery approaches and tools
• Adoption and change management principles
• Knowlege of business benefit tracking for IT projects is a plus.

Soft Skills:

• Proactive “get-it’done” mindset with strong ownership and follow-through.
• Proven ability to:
• Earn trust and build stakeholder confidence
• Deliver under pressure with diplomacy
• Balance competing priorities
• Collaborate across diverse teams and cultures
• Excellent communication, problem solving, and analytical skills.
• Willingness to mentor and support peers and junior staff.

Proficient in:

• MS Project or Project Online
• MS Teams and Office 365 (O365)

Certifications:

• One or more of the following certifications required:
• MSP, PMP, PRINCE2, AgilePM or CITPM

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