Job Description

DescriptionWaipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandWe are New Zealand’s leading University. With over 46,000 students | konga supported by more than 6,000 staff | kaimahi. We’re also one of NZ’s largest and most diverse employers, with eight academic faculties and eleven service divisions creating an evolving and dynamic organisational culture that values excellence, respect, and commitment to service.Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunityOur Digital Services division are seeking an IT Project Manager to deliver IT infrastructure and system upgrade projects for a one-year fixed-term period. We are open to applications from candidates seeking to be salary-based employees or contract for service contractors.You will be joining a large organisation and taking on projects with many moving parts. Some of the projects in our portfolio include firewall upgrades and data center consolidation/cloud integration.In this role, you’ll be responsible for delivering projects within the Digital Services portfolio whilst managing cross-functional teams for medium to small-scale projects (circa $0.5M value). We are looking for you to use our project methodology (P3M) and to implement best practice for digital projects.Your responsibilities will include:Project Governance & Reporting: Support our business owners in the preparation of project briefs and business cases for portfolio governance approval, and report on project progress through status/progress reporting using the University’s P3M tool.Project Planning & Delivery: Proactively lead and manage project teams, including all internal and external stakeholders and vendors, throughout the project lifecycle, and ensure all 3rd party/vendor contributions are documented, reviewed, and approved and are delivered on time and to the agreed specifications.Budget Control: Provide project financial management throughout the life of assigned projects including the monitoring of project commitments/resources and forecast costs against budget.Stakeholder Management: Take the lead on customer collaboration throughout all stages of work and communicate to all internal and external stakeholders, regularly conveying project progress and project benefits.Apply Project Management Methodologies in Your Work: Follow Agile practices where appropriate and contribute to the evaluation and continual improvement of the University’s P3M methodology.For more detailed information, please refer to the Position Description