Project Manager – Asana implementation

Job title: Senior Project Manager

Please note: experience with Asana is required for this role 

Job purpose

• This role is a 6 month fixed term contract to manage the implementation and rollout of Asana for project and portfolio management.
• The provision of advice on all technical aspects of information systems and the management of projects involving the development and implementation of information systems to meet identified business needs.
• To investigate, analyse and document business functions and processes and the information they use.
• Identify and develop alternative approaches to performing business activities that are made possible by the availability of information technology.

Principal accountabilities:

1. Work closely with users, DEU and ICT staff as appropriate to design processes that satisfactorily marry technical constraints and cost considerations with business objectives and result in safe, workable and maintainable systems.

2. Ensure the effective use of digital products and service, drawing on an understanding of state-of-the-art use of techniques relevant to any area of specialization. 

3. Create technology and digital quality and technical standards and quality criteria according to the Strategies and take responsibility for the control and distribution of those standards. Ensures that any changes required to quality standards are made and recorded. 

4. Ensure that, when information systems are implemented as several projects in a programme, their designs are consistent with one another.

5. Ensure that all technical and service designs (which may include information systems and ICT infrastructure) take account of corporate plans, strategies and policies, and other relevant standards.

6. Responsible for the co-ordination and change control to technical specifications and to the technical infrastructure and that quality control activities are carried out satisfactorily.

7. Responsible for producing and managing plans for the delivery of digital products and services, taking responsibility for the technical integrity of projects, including the management of technical polices and standards.

8. Leads on a range of projects within a defined area of the authority and plans, accurately and effectively, the work of the project group. 

9. Plans and manages the actions and resources required in order to meet the objectives set for periodic quality and other assurance audits. 

10. Evaluates and makes recommendations on technical options as appropriate, actively contributing to organisation’s technical and digital strategies. 

11. Sets up contracts for the supply of digital products and/or services and ensures appropriate monitoring of those contracts.

12. Manage staff and resources in allocated to the job in accordance with the Authority’s policies and Code of Ethics and Standards

13. Realise the benefits of a flexible approach to work in undertaking the duties and responsibilities of this job, and participating in multi-disciplinary, cross-department and cross-organisational groups and project teams

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