GIS Project Manager (GIS PM – PMO)

Accountabilities and Duties

• Leading the team and taking responsibility for achieving the project objectives and stakeholders’ expectations
• Ensuring that the project management plan aligns with QSIT overall strategic plan as well as communicating and cascading the strategy to the team
• Collaborating with different roles, such as a business analyst, quality assurance manager, and subject matter experts
• Communicating between the project sponsor, team members, and other stakeholders
• Balancing the conflicting and competing goals of the project stakeholders in order to achieve consensus
• Balancing the competing constraints on the project with the resources available
• Satisfying the needs:  task needs, team needs, and individual needs
• Evaluating and analyzing activities prior to project initiation; these activities include:
  • Consulting with executives and business unit leaders on ideas for advancing strategic objectives
  • Improving organizational performance
  • Meeting customer needs
• Managing business analysis, business case development, and aspects of portfolio management
• Providing the team with leadership, planning and coordination through effective communication
• Communicating with stakeholders, team and sponsors across multiple aspects of the project:
• Creates, maintains and adheres to communications plans and schedules
• Communicates predictably and consistently
• Seeks to understand the project stakeholders’ and communicating needs
• Makes communication concise, clear, complete, simple, relevant, and tailored
• Incorporating feedback channels
• Includes important positive and negative news
• Uses formal and informal networks allows project manager to engage multiple people in solving problems and navigating
• Interacts with managers within the organization during the course of the project
• Works with the sponsor to address internal political and strategic issues that may impact the team or the viability or the quality of the project

Experience and Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor of Computer science or equivalent
• PMP Certification in good standing is a must
• Minimum 7-10 years’ experience of project management with a successful track record of delivery
• Mastery of Enterprise project management software applications
• GIS knowledge is preferred