Company Description

Krasan Consulting Services is a Chicago boutique management consulting and technology solutions integrator. As a certified BEP WBE with the State of Illinois and a certified WBE, MBE, and DBE recognized by the City of Chicago, Krasan provides complex technology solutions and services for clients in the Public and Commercial sectors. With decades of experience, Krasan specializes in end-to-end technology solutions, integration, and implementation services and is proud to enable the success of our customers.

Job Title: Project Portfolio Analyst

Location: Onsite - Chicago, IL 60612

Duration: 1 Year

Role Description / Job Summary:

The role of the Project Portfolio Analyst is to establish, implement, develop, and control best practices for IT project management throughout the organization. This includes defining and documenting all policies and processes of project lifecycles in order to deliver these projects according to plan and within budget.

The Project Portfolio Analyst will also create formal methodologies for defining project key performance metrics and allocating resources.

Department & Role Relationships

Minimum Qualifications:

Must have university degree in the field of Computer Science, Information Systems or Business Administration and/or 10 years equivalent work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Master's Degree in one of Computer Science, Information Systems or Business Administration preferred.
2. PMI Certification is preferred
3. 7 years direct work experience in an IT project management capacity, including all aspects of process
4. Development and execution. 10 years direct experience in software development and supervision.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

1. Strong familiarity with project management software, such as MS Project Server, preferred
2. Strong familiarity with financial software or project management systems; including project portfolio systems.
3. Experience in developing and deploying project best practices, policies, procedures, and processes.
4. Demonstrated experience in personnel management.

Responsibilities & Typical Duties

Job Duties Strategy & Planning 

• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
• Track project milestones and deliverables.
• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.
• Conduct project postmortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful _project elements.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
• Proactively manage changes in. project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.
• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of the project.
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.
• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
• Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
• Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyses results, and troubleshoot problem areas.

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