Technical Project Lead

ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Takes responsibility for the definition, governance and control of Technology projects, using the agreed formal Project Management methodology.
• Creates, maintains and manages necessary project documentation including PID, Project Plan, RAID, Budget Summary and Project Change Tracker
• Manages the Project Plan and adherence to committed dates and deliverables
• Takes responsibility for delivery of agreed milestones, escalating when appropriate
• Manages actual and forecasted budget and tracks benefits realisation throughout the project
• Identifies, quantifies and manages risks to the success of the project, and reports against these in a RAID log.
• Coordinates the development of countermeasures and contingency plans for risks and issues
• Creates appropriate project schedule and resource allocation plans using Microsoft Project
• Ensures that Project Plans and Project Status Reports are prepared and maintained and provides regular and accurate reports to stakeholders as required.
• Manages the Project Change Request procedure and ensures that project deliverables are completed within planned cost, timescale and quality metrics.
• Ensures Service Acceptance Criteria are set and adhered to for project deployment
• Provides effective leadership to the project team and takes appropriate action where performance deviates from agreed tolerances.
• Creates business go live readiness plan and gains necessary buy-in from required approvers.
• Ensures all project stakeholders are aware of progress, issues / risks and dependencies. Provides weekly Project Status reports and communications to Sponsor and stakeholders.
• Chairs Monthly Steering Board for project delivery as required

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