Job Description
General Project Management requires general business knowledge to plan, organize, and control resources, procedures, and timing for an administrative or business process including:
- Organizing project teams, assigning individual responsibilities, developing project schedules, and determining resource requirements
- Monitoring and reporting on the status of projects including cost, timing, and staffing
- Ensuring adherence to internal and external quality standards (e.g., International Standards Organization)
- Identifying/resolving obstacles to completing project on time and to budget
- May include work managing multiple, interrelated projects (including business transformation projects)
- On some projects, the work may include integrating vendor tasks into the project plan and tracking and reviewing vendor deliverables
- Experienced Specialist in one specialized discipline as well as having a thorough understanding of related disciplines. Will most often be a driving force behind the development of new solutions for programs, complex projects, processes or activities. Serves as final decision/opinion maker in the area, coaches, mentors and trains others on the area of expertise.
- Ensures the implementation of short to medium term activities within the business area OR support sub-function in the context of the strategy for the department. Ensures appropriate policies, processes standards are developed and implemented to support short to medium term tactical direction. Leads a team of Specialists ,sometimes with several hierarchical levels, with full employee lifecycle responsibility.