Description:
IT portfolio advisor for oversight on governance, risk management, reporting, communication strategies, including, but not limited to:
- Guiding portfolio through development and maturity phases;
- Benchmarking dependencies within assigned portfolios related to ITC roadmap;
- Coordinating with internal teams for portfolio health check assessments;
- Developing portfolio managed protocols;
- Engaging stakeholders within dependent disciplines, such as; Contract Management, Quality Management, Procurement, and Legal;
- Championing innovative and value-add solutions for portfolio deliverables;
- Developing communication vehicles for executive management teams including risk assessment, dependencies, corporate goal alignment and budget
Assess IT portfolio viability within appropriate timelines and interdependencies, including, but not limited to:
- Assessing initiative proposals and business cases;
- Advising on requirement gathering consolidations
- Creating executive management reports for portfolio risks, budget, monthly status, recommendations, health checks;
- Designing and managing communication plans and strategies;
- Managing standard change management practices;
- Monitoring and advising on portfolio health check assessments;
Contribute to the development of portfolio artifacts for terms of reference, concept documents, business cases, including, but not limited to:
- Promoting integrity of portfolio processes.
- Recommending changes and improvements to portfolio processes and methodologies.
Facilitate the ITC intake process including:
- Facilitating meetings for new requests
- Forecasting resources
- Developing and supporting reporting and monitoring tools.
Support Manager, Planning Management:
- Providing advice and guidance for portfolio governance and benefits realization;
- Ensuring support protocols and appropriate standards and best practices;
- Advising on portfolio interrelationships supporting priority and resource allocation decisions;
- Promoting continuous improvement through lessons learned and facilitating recommendations.
Implement project portfolio dashboards, scorecards and reports:
- Creation and generation of IT scorecards;
- Providing recommendations for dashboards, scorecard reporting;
- Multi-year planning consistent with the IT roadmap.
Proving advice on ITC initiatives that are of a sensitive nature (for example, IT outsourcing) as assigned:
- Ensuring adherence to processes and governance in terms of time, cost and benefits;
- Managing end-to-end portfolio scope, resources, budget and deliverables;
- Facilitating and managing meetings.
Requirements:
Education:
- Post-secondary degree in a business related field/ or equivalent combination of work experience.
Experience:
- 8-10 years
- Experience managing large projects.
Technical Professional Qualifications:
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent