Project Manager

• Develops, designs and implements functional policies and programs for major business transformation and performance improvement based on City's strategic directions and business long-term needs and requirements
• Manages, motivates and trains the unit’s staff, ensuring effective teamwork, high standards of work quality and organizational performance, continuous learning and encourages innovation in others.
• Supervises the day-to-day operation of all assigned staff including the scheduling, assigning and reviewing of work.
• Authorizes and controls vacation and overtime requests.
• Monitors and evaluates staff performance and recommends disciplinary action when necessary.
• Develops, recommends and monitors the project/program budget and ensures that the expenditures are controlled and maintained within approved budget limitations.
• Leads and manages in all stages of the project lifecycle.
• Leads and manages in the development of detailed scope requirements, budgeting, resource management, planning and scheduling, monitoring and reporting progress; managing and mitigating issues and risks; reviewing, preparing and executing change requests.
• Develops, manages and reports on detailed project plans of varying levels of complexity that make major business transformations.
• Leads, facilitates and contributes to the design, creation, development and sustainment of business solutions.
• Manages all aspects of assigned projects, including the project charter, project plan and schedule, progress, budget, risk management, issue management, change management, resource management, quality review/best practices.
• Leads, participates in or oversees the preparation of or prepares project budgets and provides financial management such as sole source requests; contract negotiations; leasing agreements; business cases; feasibility and cost/benefit analysis.
• Oversees, participates or supports in recruitment selection, training and supervision of assigned project staff.
• Leads, participates in, supports or oversees the preparation of or prepares and/or supervises the preparation of various formal contractual documents such as: Request for Expression of Interest (REOI), Request for Information/Proposal/Quotation/Resource (RFI/P/Q/R), ITAPP, Statement of Work (SOW), Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) and Service Level Agreements (SLA).
• Provides leadership in the evaluation, selection and recommendation of business solutions and professional services; manages vendors and contractors in the overall solution delivery process.
• Identifies and develops cross divisional initiatives to produce synergies and economies of scale.
• Negotiates with executives and senior management, clients and various stakeholders often with competing and conflicting goals, objectives and priorities.
• Manages and administers consultant/contractors and projects/contracts, implements quality assurance/quality control procedures, authorize payments and recommends additional payments in accordance with the City's financial authority and by-laws or contract terms.
• Negotiates and documents project changes involving scope, timelines, and budget.
• Reviews, tracks, evaluates and reports on consultant and/or contractor progress, expenditures and performance to ensure adherence to project schedule, budget, scope, and contract terms.
• Adheres to the principles of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and PMI's Code of Ethics and Professional Conducts to develop and organize project protocols, procedures, relationships, and performance objectives to promote and achieve targets.
• Promotes standardization in areas relating to project administration, documentation, progress tracking and technical designs.
• Assesses and recommends scalable multi-jurisdictional business solutions.
• Works with Technology Services to ensure technical solutions meet business requirements
• Determines requirements, conducts research and evaluations and obtains all approvals and signoffs.

Project Manager – Business Solutions

Senior Project Manager