IT Project Manager

Functions & Responsibilities

• Developing project plans, goals, and budgets; identifying resources needed.
• Developing schedules and methods for measuring results
• Guiding and performing strategic analysis for the project
• Organizing and managing all phases of the project to ensure on-time completion
• Assembling and coordinating project team members; assigning individual responsibilities
• Preparing requests for proposals and conducting all necessary meetings to facilitate selection of project services and products
• Planning and overseeing the preparation and dissemination of project communications.
• Managing resources for projects, such as computer equipment and employees.
• Identifying potential risks and preparing mitigation strategies
• Conducting risk assessments for projects
• Oversee project scope control, quality control, communication management, change control management, risk management and issue management.
• Escalates impediments, manages risk, helps ensure value delivery, and helps drive relentless improvement.
• Mange Increments /Releases.
• Participates in analysis of IT solutions by tracking the execution of features and capabilities using metrics and escalating and tracking impediments.
• Facilitates project meetings.
• Accepts, categorizes and prioritizes change requests in line with business strategy and objectives.
• Coordinates activities of Change Advisory Board (CAB) and Emergency Change Advisory Board (ECAB).
• Act as secretariat for the CAB and ECAB (meeting scheduling, prior circulation of change requests and agenda to be considered, meeting invites and quorum formation).
• Ensure adequate user awareness on changes to systems, infrastructures and products.
• Ensure adequate tracking and monitoring of change items.
• Interface with the Configuration Manager for integration of configuration management database (CMDB) with change record/items.
• Ensure that changes are recorded and evaluated, and that authorized changes are prioritized, planned, tested, implemented, documented, reviewed and communicated in a controlled manner
• Ensure that all changes to configuration items (CIs) are recorded in the configuration management system
• Optimize overall business risk - it is often correct to minimize business risk but sometimes it is appropriate to knowingly accept a risk because of the potential benefit.
• Perform other functions as assigned by the Country Managing Director.