Senior IT Specialist (Project Management Office),Beijing-jobs vacancies

• Organization: AIIB - Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
• Country: China
• City: Beijing, China
• Office: AIIB HQ Beijing
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Closing date: Wednesday, 18 April 2018

Senior IT Specialist (Project Management Office)

The Specialist will be responsible for establishing and maintaining AIIB's IT project management governance and processes, which is designed to ensure that AIIB's IT investment, IT-dependent strategic business objectives and IT projects are adequately protected. This position will enforce the adoption of the governance and processes established on a large portfolio of IT projects.

The scope of this role includes budget management, change management, vendor management, quality control, risk and issue management and project planning expertise.

The Specialist will work in a start-up, fast-paced and rapidly changing work environment. The Specialist will have the opportunity to drive IT process design and will be exposed to cutting-edge cloud technology in a multilateral development bank's business environment where project management, communication, planning and risk management skills are expected to be honed.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain the Project Management Office function to manage portfolio of IT projects within the IT Division.
• Develop and maintain project governance structure, processes and control solutions for planning, scheduling and tracking projects; enforce the execution across IT projects.
• Develop, track and update an overall plan for all IT projects with support of project managers; identify and manage the dependency, risk and control issues across IT projects with support from enterprise architects.
• Review individual projects from project establishment phase, monitor the status of IT project portfolio and ensure IT governance is in place.
• Oversee issues raised by individual projects and coordinate across projects to resolve issues; as a gatekeeper, escalate bankwide IT project issues and risks to the Strategic IT Committee for decision.
• As secretariat to the Strategic IT Committee, prepare the agenda, take and circulate minutes, establish a format for agenda items and follow up on implementation of recommendations and outcomes of the committee; support any subcommittees and ensure coordination between the committee and any subcommittees.
• Produce status reports to tracking projects' overall progress and present to management.
• Plan, set up and provide detailed guidance on project management tools, procedures, processes, tools and techniques.

Requirements:

• Excellent command of project management disciplines (scope, budget, resource, quality, issue and risk management), previous experience within an IT Project Management Office would be an advantage.
• Intensive project management experience of complex IT projects in an investment bank or other financial institutions.
• Experience with IT governance, vendor management or risk management is highly desirable.
• Significant experience in preparing and delivering executive-level presentations; excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills; able to approach senior managers using appropriate level of detail, terminology and style.
• Fluency in oral and written English is a must.
• Minimum 8-10 years in an international organization or multinational corporation.
• Master's degree equivalent or higher in related fields from a reputable university.