Project Manager

Project Manager Key Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain project plans; manage the schedule to ensure that tasks are met, deliverables completed, milestones achieve
• Include identified deliverables and quality processes in project plans
• Manage schedule interdependencies with other NAI project plan
• Manage issues and risks for each project and project plan
• Lead the weekly Project Status meetings with Business partners, technical resources
• Management and maintenance of RPM/NIKU, a time reporting system (tasks against projects)
• Resource Planning
• Manage and maintain the cluster budget
• Forecast project spend using Cognos; monthly updates to forecast, reconciliation with actual spend, and posting of accruals and capitalization expense
• Associated Budgeting tasks and reviews of variances, partnering with Cluster lead
• Partnership with Financial PAO Lead, Finance staff
• Partnership with Organizational Performance. Healthy Workforce, and Support Functions Leads to create dashboards, roadmaps
• Maintain Project Blue Print and schema, gathering input from design consultants (this happens on a monthly basis)
• Release management activity
• Partner with the Cluster Lead / Manager to ensure the project remains on track
• Heavy emphasis and experience on using Cognos reporting and analysis tools and managing project using such tools with specific experience in organizing and executing appropriate development processes tailored to reporting and to this tool set.