About the position
This is a full-time limited position working on Mayor Ginther's project initiative. This is one of those rare opportunities to be part of something bigger than yourself. The City of Columbus is assembling a safety technologies project management office to support Mayor Andrew Ginther's priorities for community safety, our city's first responders, and the city's investments in its Police, Fire, and 911 capabilities. We seek talented, experienced senior technology program and project management professionals to join our team. This position is available with a particular focus on public safety campus and real-time crime center projects; Fire, Police, and 911 projects; and safety technology acquisitions, licensing, and contracting projects. If you have experience, skill and ease with projects of high importance and interest; assessing and resolving complex situations and needs involving multiple stakeholders and interests; planning and managing complicated, sensitive projects; and speaking and writing for large, diverse audiences, let's talk.
Responsibilities
- Acting as a key point of contact with Fire, Police, and 911 project owners.
- Developing and managing client, vendor, and stakeholder relationships.
- Supporting project owners in helping scope project priorities, including technologies, data, staffing, funding, time, and policy.
- Managing projects successfully from inception through implementation, including needs, planning, architecture, integrations, scheduling, progress reporting, specifications, adoption or acquisition, and implementation.
- Coordinating stakeholder needs, interests, and representation.
- Tracking and reporting progress and identifying and mitigating issues, risks, and outstanding items.
- Supporting acquisition by managing need analysis, solicitation development, evaluation, negotiation, licensing and contracting with close coordination with owners, funders, buyers, providers, systems administrators, and legal counsel.
Requirements
- Possession of a bachelor's degree.
- Six (6) years of experience managing information technology projects from initiation through closure.
- A valid certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP) awarded by the Project Management Institute (PMI) may be substituted for the bachelor's degree and four (4) years of the required experience.
- A master's degree in computer science or closely related field may be substituted for one (1) year of the required experience.
- Additional years of experience may substitute for the educational requirement on a year-for-year basis.
