Project Manager

The Office of Innovation & Technology (OIT) is the central IT agency for the City of Philadelphia headed by the Chief Information Officer (CIO). OIT oversees all major information and communications technology initiatives for the City of Philadelphia - increasing the effectiveness of the information technology infrastructure, where the services provided are advanced, optimized, and responsive to the needs of the City of Philadelphia’s businesses, residents, and visitors. OIT responsibilities include: identifying the most effective approach for implementing new information technology directions throughout city government; improving the value of the city’s technology assets and the return on the city’s technology investments; ensuring data security continuity; planning for continuing operations in the event of disruption of information technology or communications services; and supporting accountable, efficient and effective government across every city department, board, commission and agency.

This position, under general direction of either Director of Projects or a Program Manager, leads and directs high-priority projects, which often require considerable resources and high levels of functional integration.  As a Project Manager in the Public Safety PMO, you will play a critical role in supporting projects within the Public Safety space which covers IT solutions support for the City’s Police, Fire, Prison and Office of Emergency management agencies.  There are a multitude of projects in the pipeline for Public Safety and this role could participate in several of those projects, potentially across multiple agencies to support the overall safety of the City of Philadelphia. In this role, the Project Manager will follow the OIT PMO guidelines for Project Management and manage projects through all phases of the project lifecycle, starting at Intake/Initiation through Project Closing.

Essential Functions

• Develop, clarify and manage the scope of the project, defines contract deliverables and achieves 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 

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/OR
• Minimum of 3-5 years Project Management experience managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects
• 4-6 years of applicable business experience
• PMP certification or Master’s Certificate in Project Management preferred.
  OR

Any equivalent combination of education and experience determined to be acceptable by the Office of Innovation & Technology and Human Resources.

Salary Range: $80,000 - $90,000

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
Please note that effective September 1, 2021, the City of Philadelphia is requiring all new employees to
present proof of vaccination against COVID-19.

The City of Philadelphia is an Equal Opportunity employer and does not permit discrimination based on race,
ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, source of income, familial status, genetic information or domestic or sexual violence victim status. If you believe you were discriminated against, call the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations at 215-686-4670 or send an email to faqpchr @phila.gov. For more information, go to: Human Relations Website:
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