Description
Infrastructure Project Manager - (A)
Description
- Support the implementation of IT projects (VIS/BMS evolutions, corrective, preventive, perfective and adaptive maintenance) to meet identified business needs, acquiring and utilising the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales, and quality.
- Ensure that the project management process effectiveness is consistently assessed.
- Manage and deliver highly complex IT projects in accordance with the Institution's Project Management Office (PMO) standards
- Understand project goals and objectives, and ensure that projects are setup to achieve these goals
- Define and manage the scope, schedule, budget and plan for projects throughout the life cycle
- Define communications plans and maintain excellent overall communications throughout the project
- Proactively identify and manage all significant issues and risks and escalate as necessary
- Define communications plans and maintain excellent overall communications throughout the project
- Regularly report and communicate project status to the Institution's Application and/or Project/Program Managers
- Support/Coach Project Teams, Business Analysts, Developers, and other project team members in implementing and improving applicable project management standards & Methods within the context of their environment, objectives and priorities.
- Proactively identify and manage all significant issues and risks and escalate as necessary
- Provide with efficient vendor management
Qualifications
- Minimum 4 years of relevant education (master or equivalent) after the secondary school.
- Minimum 9 years of IT professional experience, of which minimum 6 years of experience with a project management methodology (eg Prince2)
- Experience as a Project Manager, Programme Manager or Project Management Officer (PMO) within a structured project environment.
- IT project management and development life cycle integration and implementation, (with good understanding of Prince 2 and/or PMI principles). Prince2 Practitioner and PMP certificates are considered as asset.
- Demonstrate sound understanding and experience in vendor and procurement management, ideally in the domain of European public organizations
- Service management/Delivery Experience and Understanding.
- Experience of industry-standard IT Governance practices.
- Advanced Knowledge of Microsoft applications including MS Project, MS Excel and MS Visio.
- IT Performance management/Metrics expertise
- Knowledge of Organisational Change and process improvement methodologies eg Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum eg ScrumMasterExperience in process assessment using methodologies as CMMi, COBIT, Project/Programme management and implementation of project tools
- Very good written and spoken English is required