The required services may include, but are not limited to the following:
- Assessing the organization’s capacity/capability to undertake and successfully deliver a project in the context of the overall program or portfolio program or portfolio priorities through strategic planning
- Advising senior management on a range of issues affecting the organization’s ability to achieve the project’s business objectives
- Assisting in the prioritization and assignment of projects within the program/portfolio
- Managing several senior project managers, each responsible for an element of the project/program/portfolio and it’s associated team (for example project and financial management)
- Meeting with organizational executives to ensure all organizational (internal and external) stakeholders are committed to moving forward on the project (for example opportunity evaluation)
- Formulating statements of problems; establishing procedures for the development and implementation of significant, new or modified project, program or portfolio elements to solve these problems, and obtaining approval thereof
- Managing the implementation of a project/program/portfolio to identify, analyze, plan, track and control progress on a continuous basis
- Making recommendations and providing advice for improvements and assisting in developing solutions and implementing recommendations (for example policy development and standards development)
- Preparing and presenting findings, status and other relevant matters
- Overseeing the development of a project business case (for example business planning and program review)
- Managing program changes in accordance with the change management process
- Motivating the team to ensure commitment to the program’s objectives specifying the general requirements of the project
- Developing project alternatives and identifying their administrative, economic, and technical feasibility and practicality; and associated policy and organizational change requirements
- Planning, directing, and controlling the activities of a project team within scheduled time and cost parameters
- Producing overall project plans and obtaining approval of preliminary analysis
- Updating and providing briefings to upper management on progress and concerns of the project
