Senior Project Manager

Job Description
This position, under general direction of either Director of Projects or a Program Manager, leads and directs high-priority projects, which often require considerable resources and high levels of functional integration. As a Senior Project Manager in the Public Safety PMO, you will play a critical role in supporting projects within the Public Safety space which covers IT solutions support for the City’s Police, Fire, Prison and Office of Emergency management agencies. There are a multitude of projects in the pipeline for Public Safety and this role could participate in several of those projects, potentially across multiple agencies to support the overall safety of the City of Philadelphia. In this role, the Senior Project Manager will follow the OIT PMO guidelines for Project Management and manage projects through all phases of the project lifecycle, starting at Intake/Initiation through Project Closing.
Essential Functions
- Develop, clarify and manage the scope of the project, defines contract deliverables and achieves targeted outcomes.
- Ensure project requirements are achieved in a timely fashion and within budget guidelines.
- Assemble project team, identify needed resources, assign responsibilities and develop timeframes to facilitate successful completion of project activities and deliverables.
- Determine project costs/ensures delivery on time and within budgetary guidelines.
- Ensure compatibility and consistency with existing architectural and enterprise standards.
- Perform cost/benefit analysis of actions and initiatives.
- Schedule and document meeting minutes.
- Follow the OIT Project Management practice and prescribed SDLC.
- Prepare status reports, status summaries and dashboards for presentation to mid and senior level management.
- Provide support, coaching and mentoring on project management best practices, as requested
Competencies, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Demonstrate leadership qualities such as conflict/issue resolution, the ability to run a project or serve as project manager on a program team and can ensure a successful project lifecycle.
- Communicate (verbally and in writing) effectively with stakeholders and senior business leadership of departments and agencies participating in this project.
- Organize and work effectively with project teams of staff from department and agencies participating in this effort.
- Demonstrate experience and relevant expertise in the design and building of distributed and enterprise solutions.
- Plan, organize and direct the work activities of outside consultants and/or systems analysis and programming personnel assigned on a team.
- Demonstrate presentation skills, strategic thinking, and high professional ethics.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates, departmental officials,
Outside consultants and vendors.
- The principles of project management, systems delivery life cycle and budgeting.
- Concepts and applications of servers, storage, mainframes, monitoring, ITIL, metrics and performance management, disaster recovery, data center facilities management, managed services, and cloud computing.
- IT project management best practice, principles and techniques. (PMBOK)