The role of the Project Manager is to meet the goal of delivering Information Technology projects within project constraints. The Project Manager ensures that the project sponsor is satisfied with the outcome of the project. The Project Manager owns and drives the schedule, the feature set, and the budget for the project. The Project Manager ensures that the right solution is delivered at the right time and that the project sponsor’s expectations are understood and managed throughout the project while following the Project Quality department project management methodology.

• Track and manage Information Technology projects, maintain budget and timelines.
• Facilitates the creation of the project budget by gathering resource requirements from all of the roles on the team.
• Manage master project schedule
• Collects all team schedules, validates them, and integrates them into a master schedule that is tracked and reported to the team and the project sponsor.
• Facilitate communication and negotiation within the team.
• Track progress and manage project status reporting.
• Manage the solution scope and critical trade-off decisions.
• Provide advice and guidance on effective implementation of the project processes; validate compliance with processes; undertake milestone reviews; monitor compliance; recommend process improvements.
• Implement the project management processes and support the team leads in using them.
• Ensure that the project team can operate effectively with the minimum of bureaucracy.
• Establish consistent planning framework; assist team leads in planning and scheduling; consolidate team input to create master plan and schedule; establish financial and progress reporting processes.
• Support project initiation processes, such as efficient recruitment of team members; manage contractual arrangements with any external vendors; organize team facilities (space, telephones, security access, and so on).
• Provide a range of administrative services to support efficient team working.
• Implementing risk and issue management processes
• Generate financial and progress reports
• Ensure closure of all administrative systems on project completion. 

• Must possess strong business and technical writing abilities (certificate is

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