IT Project Manager – Network and Infrastructure
Responsibilities:
- Manage the budget, schedule, scope, and quality of assigned projects.
- Support the identification, evaluation, and selection of specific projects that will be selected for completion.
- Manage multiple projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives.
- Maintain continuous alignment of project scope with defined strategic business objectives.
- Works closely with IT managers and analysts in assigning resources to projects and establishing deadlines for their completion.
- Monitor progress of projects. Identify problems impeding progress and participate in their resolution.
- Direct project activities to maintain progress, mutual interaction, and tasks of various parties in such a way that reduces the risk of failure, maximizes benefits, and restricts costs.
- Define project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management, IT analysts, and stakeholders.
- Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
- Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
- Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
- Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
- Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
- Provide motivation for participants by maintaining enthusiasm and providing positive feedback throughout each project’s life cycle.
- Maintain frequent written and verbal communications with all stakeholders and project participants, ensuring communications are precise, concise, and understood by recipients.
- Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.
- Identify and manage project dependencies and critical paths.
- Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
- Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
- Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.
- Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.
- Coach, mentor and lead project team members (IT and customers), educating each in the methodology being used and, more importantly, their role in the project’s success.
- Build, develop, and grow business relationships with project stakeholders at multiple levels and multiple locations vital to the success of the project.
- Audit projects to ensure that all team members are following the standard project management process.
- Conduct project post mortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
- Support continuous improvement and maintenance of project management best practices.
- Work with the IT tools and services teams to continuously improve the project management tool suite and methodologies that are utilized on projects.
Requirements and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- At least 2 years of experience as an IT Project Manager
- At least 2 years of experience with IT Network and Infrastructure solutions delivery and/or Project Management
- Project Management experience using Microsoft Project and/or Microsoft Project Server
- Experience with a range of Project Management Methodologies – including managing projects with Waterfall and Agile project management
- Experience managing a team of people
- Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Experience with project planning, scheduling, tracking and reporting
- Experience with change management, project risk mitigation, and issue management
- Proven leadership skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Successful track record of managing large projects
- Ability to work effectively in a high-pressure environment
- Must be able to work occasional weekends
- PMP Certification desired
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Incoming search terms:
- network infrastructure project completion report
- PROJECT PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT NET WORK DEVELOPMENT
- project scope for network infrastructure