Consultant - IT Project Manager

Organizational Setting

The Division of Information Technology provides support to the IAEA in the field of information and communication technology (ICT), including information systems for technical programmes and management. It is responsible for planning, developing, and implementing an ICT strategy, for setting and enforcing common ICT standards throughout the Secretariat and for managing central ICT services. The IAEA's ICT infrastructure comprises hardware and software platforms, and cloud and externally hosted services. The Division has implemented an IT service management model based on ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) and Prince2 (Projects in a Controlled Environment) best practices.
The Business Solutions Section provides information systems development and support services to IAEA programme areas and to the IAEA as a whole.
The Programmatic Solutions Unit (PSU), which is part of MTIT's Business Solutions Section (MTIT/BSS), provides business IT solutions to meet IAEA programme areas requirements. The PSU is led by a Unit Head, who reports to the Head of the Business Solutions section.

Main Purpose

The consultant will be in the Programmatic Solutions Unit.
The purpose of the consultancy is to ensure a results-oriented response to MTIT's, and the Secretariat's business technology priorities as communicated by the MTIT management. The IT Project Manager may be responsible for multiple cross-cutting IT projects simultaneously.
The IT Project manager is:
• a substantive specialist, translating the Agency's business requirements and objectives into information technology capabilities;
• a project manager, providing management, administration and leadership for project teams, ensuring that projects are delivered within agreed tolerances of time and budget;
• an adviser to the MTIT Management and other senior managers in the Secretariat (both within and outside of MTIT) on business process, risk, organ