Head of IT Project Management and Innovation

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The Office of Innovation & Technology (OIT) is the central IT agency for the City of Philadelphia headed by the Chief Information Officer (CIO). OIT oversees all major information and communications technology initiatives for the City of Philadelphia - increasing the effectiveness of the information technology infrastructure, where the services provided are advanced, optimized, and responsive to the needs of the City of Philadelphia’s businesses, residents, and visitors. OIT responsibilities include: identifying the most effective approach for implementing new information technology directions throughout city government; improving the value of the city’s technology assets and the return on the city’s technology investments; ensuring data security continuity; planning for continuing operations in the event of disruption of information technology or communications services; 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 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 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.

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.

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

Completion of a Bachelor’s degree program at an accredited college or university with a major course work in Computer Science, Information Technology or a closely related field

Minimum of 3-5 years Project Management experience managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects

PMP certification or Master’s Certificate in Project Management preferred.

Any equivalent combination of education and experience determined to be acceptable by the Office of Innovation & Technology and Human Resources.

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.

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. (All applications must include a cover letter. Applications without a cover letter will be considered incomplete.

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*The successful candidate must be a city of Philadelphia resident within six months of hire

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