About the Job
- Leading the team and taking responsibility for achieving the project objectives and stakeholders’ expectations.
- Ensuring that the project management plan aligns with ESRI NEA 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