IT Project Management Officer

1. Project Planning/Management:

• Collaborate with project stakeholders and corresponding personnel or vendors to define the project scope.
• Responsible for planning, executing, monitoring & controlling, and closing projects across multiple stakeholders; developing analyses to support process and project improvements.
• Manage and coordinate projects through all phases of initiation, development, and implementation.
• Work with the business to define and manage the scope, strategy, requirements, and implementation of projects.
• Ensure that assigned projects are completed within budget and schedule while meeting business objectives.

2. Quality & Risk Management:

• Ensure project delivery meets quality standards set by stakeholders/users.
• Ensure project delivery adheres to international quality standards.
• Identify project risks and develop resolutions for potential risks.
• Communicate effectively with the project committee, stakeholders, and key users regarding any potential project risks.
• Execute resolutions as required.

3. Users & Vendor Management:

• Engage with key users/stakeholders to ensure user requirements are fully implemented in the project.
• Prepare regular, clear, and accurate executive summaries for stakeholders and key users to understand project status.
• Ensure stakeholders/key users are fully aware of project progress.
• Manage vendor engagement from selection and bidding to negotiation.
• Ensure vendors are fully aware of project requirements and deliverables that meet user needs.
• Closely monitor vendor implementation according to the project schedule.
• Negotiate optimal costs with vendors for implementation.
• Ensure vendors follow the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with proper testing of deliverables.

4. Change request Control:

• Regularly communicate with users to identify any changes in requirements.
• Properly reflect changes to vendors and assess their impact on project delivery and costs.
• Communicate changes to the project committee regarding schedule and cost implications due to requirement changes. Obtain consent from the project committee for applying changes.