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Due to continued growth, we are currently hiring a Business Continuity Project Manager to join our team. Aspira is a dynamic, fast-growing international consulting and technology company, founded on real-world experience, focused on custom-fit solutions. We have the proven people and expertise to complete complex projects, while delivering lasting knowledge-transfer benefits to empower our partners for the next challenge.

Are you intrigued? Do you want to learn more?

A snapshot of your key responsibilities as Senior ICT Project Manager would be:

• Work with IT Transformation teams to embed IT and Business agility including leading and supporting teams with agile ways of working.
• Carry out activities as noted under the oversight of the IT Transformation
• Mobilise and project manage the delivery of assigned IT projects to meet the agreed IT Transformation requirements within timescale, cost and quality constraints;
• Determine appropriate escalation paths and make recommendations in respect of solutions to issues to ensure projects are delivered in line with time, cost and quality targets
• Track and monitor project budgets and ensure effective tracking and reporting to IT Transformation programme manager,stakeholders and finance teams
• Proactively manage Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies, ensuring these are identified, mitigated or escalated as necessary so that the projects have the best chance of success
• Ensure regular effective communications with all stakeholders and provide visibility of progress of projects, demonstrating control over both internal and supplier progress, in order to provide certainty on deliverables and to enable re-planning if necessary to deliver to agreed timelines;
• Provide leadership and work with all stakeholders involved in project delivery to manage the scope and planning of the project and secure the necessary skills and resources required at the right time aligned with demand management processes, in order to ensure successful project completion
• Provide feedback to line managers on the performance of assigned resources and provide input as appropriate to assignees performance management to assist their development
• Manage supplier/ vendor activities where external resources are being used,
• Manage relationships with third parties including regular reviews of performance and facilitate vendor selections, making sure that the appropriate stakeholders are involved and the appropriate owners for vendors are identified
• Ensure weekly and monthly reporting into the IT Programme Manager, IT Strategic Change Office, steering groups and PMO are delivered on time;
• Drive post implementation reviews to ensure the lessons learned are identified, documented and used to continually improve project delivery;
• Problem solve issues recommending solutions or escalating issues as appropriate
• Provide relevant skills transfer, coaching and mentoring to other team members
  
  Requirements:
  

• 7+ years experience managing projects end to end with full responsibility for successful delivery.
• Formal Project management and Agile certification - such as PMP, PRINCE2, DASSM or equivalent.
• High proficiency, both verbal and written in English.
• Strong experience in managing and leading Agile IT projects along with practical experience in developing and leading Agile ceremonies, techniques and tools, ideally in a similar business background of similar scale
• Strong knowledge and experience of core project management competencies including budget setting, management and control, RAID management, time management, quality and resource management.
• Strong experience in leading IT Transformation areas such as but not limited to Cloud, IT Operating Models and Dev Ops will be an advantage.
• Demonstrated experience in multi-vendor environments with associated supplier/ vendor management skills.
• Experience in public procurement and contract creation/agreement will be an advantage.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills and must be effective at presenting to and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build effective relationships at all levels.
• Strategic outlook coupled with the ability to offer pragmatic solutions and drive decisions in support of organisational and IT requirements.
• Excellent leadership skills generating commitment and passion within matrixed and direct team structures.
• Ability to motivate the team, foster a collaborative culture and resolve conflict.
• orward thinking, with the ability to remove ambiguity creating clarity and direction.
• Willing and able to work under pressure, managing multiple simultaneous work streams.

So, are you ready to join our team?

It's important to remember, Aspira is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we value bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds to develop innovative solutions for our customers.

Opportunity type: Contract (12 months initially), Hybrid, Dublin