IT Infrastructure Project Manager

Essential Functions

•    Develop, clarify and manage the scope projects, define contract deliverables and achieve 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 for project coordinator associates

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)

•    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
AND
•    PMP and/or equivalent Project Management Certification or Master’s Certificate in Project Management
•    5 years of generalized Information Technology experience (can be concurrent with above)
•    Minimum of 5 years Project Management experience managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects

Salary Range: $80k-$90k

Salary cannot exceed $90,000

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

Did you know?
● We are a Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program qualified employer : 25% tuition discount program for City employees (and sometimes spouses and dependents as well) in partnership with area colleges and universities

● We offer Comprehensive health coverage for employees and their eligible dependents
● Our wellness program offers eligibility into the discounted medical plan
● Employees receive paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays
● Generous retirement savings options are available

*The successful candidate must be a city of Philadelphia resident within six months of hire
Effective May 22, 2023, vaccinations are no longer required for new employees that work in non-medical, non-emergency or patient facing positions with the City of Philadelphia. As a result, only employees in positions providing services that are patient-facing medical care (ex: Nurses, doctors, emergency medical personnel), must be fully vaccinated.