IT Head - Project Management/Technology Solutions Development - Education

Overall responsibility of all IT related projects from concept to completion within agreed timelines and budgets including infrastructure, new application development, enhancement of existing systems, applications and processes.

Responsibilities:

- Planning: integrate IT planning with the overall business planning along the CBO, CFO, HR and Marketing functions.

- Lead the team: The project manager must be a good leader who makes a team of different members of various skills and can complete their individual tasks.

- Motivate the team-member: One of the key roles of a software project manager is to encourage team members to work properly for the successful completion of the project.

Tracking the progress:

- The project manager should keep an eye on the progress of the project.

- A project manager must track whether the project is going as per plan or not.

- If any problem arises, then take the necessary action to solve the problem.

- Moreover, check whether the product is developed by maintaining correct coding standards or not.

Liaison:

- The project manager is the link between the development team and the Business Team.

- Project manager analysis the Business (user) requirements and convey it to the development team and keep telling the progress of the project to the end user in the business.

- Moreover, the project manager checks whether the project is fulfilling the business head's requirements or not.

Monitoring and reviewing:

- Project monitoring is a continuous process that lasts the whole time a product is being developed, during which the project manager compares actual progress and cost reports with anticipated reports as soon as possible.

- While most firms have a formal system in place to track progress, qualified project managers may still gain a good understanding of the project's development by simply talking with participants.

Documenting project report:

- The project manager prepares the documentation of the project for future purposes.

- The reports contain detailed features of the product and various techniques.

- These reports help to maintain and enhance the quality of the project in the future.

Reporting:

- Reporting project status to the customer and his or her organization is the responsibility of the project manager.

- Additionally, they could be required to prepare brief, well- organized pieces that summarize key details from in-depth studies.

Stakeholder engagement:

- Ensure IT strategies & processes support the overall business goals, explain the risks & benefits of new IT projects, oversee relationship with vendors, contractors and service providers.

Scope of work:

- Developing IT policies, procedures and best practices, managing the software development needs, overall planning, deploying and maintaining IT systems and operations.

- Preparation of Detailed Project Reports for each undertaken project after required brainstorming, research, and discussions.

- Project Estimation: Project Size Estimation based on which all other estimations like cost, duration and effort are made.

- Cost Estimation: Total expenses to develop the software product is estimated.

- Time Estimation: The total time required to complete the project.

- Effort Estimation: The effort needed to complete the project is estimated.

- Scheduling: After the completion of the estimation of all the project parameters, scheduling for manpower and other resources is done.

- Staffing: Team structure and staffing plans are made.

- Risk Management: identify the unanticipated risks that may occur during project development risk, analyze the damage that might cause these risks, and take a risk reduction plan to cope with these risks.

- Miscellaneous plans: making several other plans such as quality assurance plans, configuration management plans, etc.

Skills and Qualities:

- Ability to conceptualize the overall IT requirements of the organization including Hardware & Software, ERP systems, network and related infrastructure along with futuristic business enablement solutions

- Experience in coding - though not a current role requirement but adds value to manage coding teams (internal & external)

- Well networked in the tech community to bounce of ideas and quick technical hacks

- Ability to understand business requirements and articulate/ convert the same into technical requirements

- Knowledge of project estimation techniques

- Good decision-making abilities at the right time

- Previous experience managing similar type of projects (app development/ learning apps is preferred)

- Good communication skills to interact with internal stakeholders and external vendors/ partners

- As a project manager, must encourage all the team members to successfully develop the product

- He/ She must know the various type of risks that may occur and the solution to these problems

- Awareness of the latest technical developments that can be utilized for the benefit of the organization (including make or buy decisions)