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Planning Project Manager
City of Miami / Miami, FL
Posted on: April 6, 2022
Application Deadline: April 15, 2022
Job Description
This is advanced, responsible professional work assisting with prioritizing, monitoring, and managing the City’s project portfolio within the Planning Department. An individual in this capacity will work on analyzing, evaluating, developing, and implementing departmental procedures and business processes related to the administration of the City’s Planning Project Portfolio.
An incumbent will be responsible for coordinating multiple projects based on the City’s needs and may independently coordinate a project or liaise with inter-departmental City staff members. The incumbent will be responsible for maintaining a comprehensive project portfolio; reviewing project proposals to determine time frame, funding, procedures required to complete projects, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources for various phases of the project, including formulating the work plan and staffing requirements for each phase of the project, meeting with staff to outline work plan and assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority, and conferring with project personnel to ensure project is progressing on schedule and within budget; reviewing and monitoring processing of invoice payments; reviewing and preparing status reports and modifying schedules or plans as required; preparing project reports for the director or designee; conferring with project personnel to provide technical advice and to resolve problems; and coordinating project activities with other governmental agencies.
The exercise of independent judgment will be routinely required. This position reports to the Department Director or his/her designee.
Essential Functions
- Assists with the development of in-house project management framework for all projects to align to.
- Monitors and evaluates projects and project processes at varying stages (e.g., planning, design, construction) to recommend amendments and strategies to ensure high quality, cost-effective, and on-time project completion.
- Assists with evaluating and prioritizing new project requests by analyzing project needs statements and applying established ranking criteria.
- Supports and maintains project management system data integrity and helps enforce document control procedures.
- Ensures user adoption of project management framework through periodic system audits, offering continued training opportunities, and the development of system use protocols/procedures
- Prepares reports to provide management with useful information on the status and health (budget and schedule) of each individual project as well as the overall Planning project portfolio.
- Assists with identifying and developing possible process improvements for the Planning Department project portfolio.
- Anticipates and synchronizes legislative actions and appropriations to support planning projects.
- Liaises with legal and procurement staff to ensure proper coordination and support of planning projects and goals.
Required Experience / Skills / Education
Minimum Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in City, Regional, Urban Planning, Urban Studies, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Environmental, Geography, Public/Business Administration, Engineering or a related field, and four (4) years of project management experience in the analysis of operational needs and the development and utilization of technological solutions for managing portfolios of planning projects.
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