Supervisor, Project Coordinator #25372
Company: Regional Municipality Of Woodbuffalo
Job Description
Reference #: 002430
Position Type/ Hours: This is a permanent full-time position working thirty-five (35) hours per week.
Job: Information Technology
Primary Location: Canada-Alberta-Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo
Role and Responsibilities
- Negotiate contract terms, fees, etc.
- Monitor contracts and vendors to ensure compliance with contractual obligations.
- Maintain project dashboard and master PMO project schedule.
- Review status reports prepared by team members and modify schedules and plans as required.
- Ensures that the project is delivered on time, to budget and to the required quality standard (within agreed specifications).
- Providing status reports and/or Presentations to the Branch
- Manager, Steering Committee, or other Senior Leadership groups as requested.
- Understand customers’ requirements, address changing needs and manage the dynamics of those changes.
- Accountable to ensure a smooth go live and subsequent hand-over of the project to business applications support.
- Provide oversight to ensure projects are in compliance with established standards.
- Standardize project management processes, tools, documentation, and templates.
- Maintain project related software tools, software standards, and project methodologies.
- Resolve conflicts and difficult situations and provide proactive corrective action when necessary.
- Identify and resolve common problems and potential risk issues across projects.
- Resolve or escalate issues and eliminate obstacles for the project team through proactive intervention.
- Resolve issues elevated by project coordinators; establish corrective action plan to be executed by project coordinators.
- Assess team skills in identifying inherent risks in the methodology on key projects.
- Provide coaching, mentoring, and technical training on efficiently using project management tools.
- Ensure project coordinators utilize PM tools and techniques.
- Ensure that all projects complete interim lessons, learned exercises and project implementation reviews. Integrate findings to the delivery of all projects.
- Identifies competencies needed for resources and establishes training plans.
- Maintains a database of project resources, documenting skill sets and experience.
- Ensures the project is effectively resourced and manages relationships with a wide range of groups (including all project contributors).
- Responsible for managing the work of consultants, allocating and utilizing resources in an efficient manner and maintaining a co-operative, motivated and successful team.
- Ensure availability of all necessary staff, services, resources, and vendors and all appropriate project expenditures.
- Support and enable the entire project team in their effort to achieve the business goals of the project.
Qualifications
- A degree in Information Technology from a recognized post secondary institute.
- Certificate in Project Management (PMP) is required.
- Five (5) to eight (8) years of responsible experience in managing projects.
- Supervisory experience.
You will possess the following:
- Experience leading the design, development, and implementation of software solutions, systems, and projects.
- Knowledge of business requirements analysis, process improvement, project management, program evaluation and strategic planning concepts and methodologies.
- Thorough understanding of corporate and industry practices, processes, standards etc. and their impact on project activities.
- Extensive experience in detailed budget preparation and financial tracking are essential.
- Demonstrated experience in personnel management.
- Superior communication and interpersonal (tact, diplomacy, influence etc.) skills essential.
Salary/ Benefits & Compensation
Salary: Competitive Salary
In addition to the rate of pay, we offer other attractive incentives:
- excellent training and development opportunities
- an extensive employer paid benefits plan
- home equity protection program
- an additional annual payment of $12,480 which represents a cost of living allowance
Procedure for applying:
Closing Date: February 11, 2012 at 12:00 AM Posting Type: Internal & External
We appreciate the interest of all applicants; however, only those individuals selected for interviews will be contacted. Late applications will not be accepted.
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