IT Project & Business Support Coordinator

at  The City of Red Deer

THE OPPORTUNITY:

The City of Red Deer is currently recruiting an IT Project & Business Support Coordinator to fill a permanent full-time position. This position supports the IT Project portfolio management strategy, driving the throughput of the projects and maximizing stakeholder satisfaction with IT. Managing the project portfolio, this position plays a critical role in collecting and updating projections of project timing and resource allocations for the upcoming period in order to provide a current and usable forecast of project resource capacity.
The incumbent establishes guidelines and supports other IT staff in applying different tiers of PM rigor to ensure that potential quick win projects are not weighed down in too much process and that the right amount of rigor is applied to more complex, high-risk initiatives.
This position is responsible to liaise with City stakeholders, the Information Technology Services leadership team, and external vendors to ensure enterprise technology systems and processes effectively support diverse functional requirements across the organization.
Through both active participation and coordinating the work of others, the incumbent in this position applies industry standard project portfolio management, project management, change management, and business analysis tools and methodologies to support City stakeholders to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of business practices through the innovative use of information technology.
This position plays a key role in supporting the core IT functional processes of Project Portfolio Management, Application Development Throughput, Project Management, Business Process Controls, and Stakeholder Relations.

Please refer the Job description for details