Senior Project Manager

Project overview

Job Title: Senior Project Manager

Reference: 26-04-7629-001

Responsibilities

Education:

Core Skills:

Important Skills:

• Monitor project costs, deadlines, and quality, prepare reports according to guidelines, and apply necessary measures if applicable.
• Identify and monitor risks and verify the effectiveness of measures taken.
• Ensure project management is based on achieving the objectives of signed and validated project mandates.
• Manage projects using the HERMES methodology supported by the PMO to ensure the quality of quality control point monitoring.
• Ensure that the needs expressed by clients, primarily the organization's internal departments, are taken into account.
• Obtain validation from relevant stakeholders, steering committees, and, if necessary, governance bodies for decisions related to solution selection, configuration, development, and implementation.
• Apply the project's quality assurance plan.
• Implement risk management in line with internal control, information security, and internal audit requirements: identify risks, assess them, monitor their evolution, and propose corrective actions.
• Organize successive validations by stakeholders for each project phase.
• Define the human resources necessary for the smooth running of projects under their responsibility.
• Establish and implement communication and support plans based on stakeholders and the established organization.
• Control and ensure the execution of the training plan within the overall project planning.
• University Master's degree in Computer Science or Federal Diploma of Engineering (EPF).
• Proven experience of 5 years or more in managing IT solution projects.
• Mastery of all project management disciplines involved in all project phases, supported by a recognized methodological framework (HERMES, PMI, IPMA, Agile, etc.).
• Mastery of human resource management and communication, including in an organization based on remote work.
• Ability to manage multidisciplinary resources, delegate, and set objectives.
• Strong ability to interact with expert engineers, project stakeholders, and management.
• Good understanding and knowledge of the role and challenges of a Geneva public administration.
• Experience in managing IT projects (software vendor solutions, internal and external development solutions).

Nice to have

Required Qualities:

• Experience with transformation related to the implementation of agile philosophies such as DevOps and containerization.
• Experience with oral presentations in a public institutional setting.
• Cloud experience (private, hybrid, public).
• IAM experience.
• Security experience.
• Ability to assist a program manager.
• Experience within the information systems directorate of a Geneva public administration.
• Excellent written and oral communication.
• Leadership, autonomy, initiative, anticipation, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to manage multidisciplinary teams of experts working in a network, especially in teleworking.

Project details

Geneva

Desired Start Date: January 2027

100%

Remuneration: from 149,000 CHF / year

Job Description and Context:

We are looking for a senior project manager for a client, a public administration in Geneva, to strengthen its IT project management teams.

Responsible for IT projects, the selected candidate will guarantee the quality of project management and oversee operational and financial monitoring. They will ensure quality management of project teams, implement procedures in accordance with the directorate's project management standards, and advise the departments covered by their domain. Projects include information systems strategy, business solutions evolution, obsolescence management, strategic and technical internal projects, and law-related projects. Long-term assignment (up to 5 years).

• Start: flexible
• Location: Geneva, Geneva, CH
• Languages: French