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6-12 Month Contract (Market Related Salary)

To apply project management skills, tools and techniques to successfully deliver projects within approved parameters in terms of scope, cost and quality - Reports To Programme Manager or Portfolio Manager

1. Support the process of initiating projects and perform project planning
2. Ensure that valid and approved business cases are obtained before the commencement of new project work.
3. Review the authorisation of the project dimensions (scope, cost) prior to commencing project activities.
4. Participate in constituting the project board and identifying the correct project stakeholders.
5. Engage with all the key stakeholders to ensure that they will be involved in the project at the correct level.
6. Identify and manage project risks and issues, throughout the project life cycle. Raise all key risks and issues at a project board level.
7. Build and manage project plans and schedules.
8. Project plans should cover the various management plans covering scope, time, cost and quality management plans.
9. Conduct estimations for project activities as it relates to their duration and resources required to perform the work.
10. Conduct research into and make use of the appropriate existing intellectual property as relevant to the assigned project tasks.
11. Ensure that existing information, processes and tools are maximised before recommending new approaches.
12. Build relationships with key project participants include business owners, process owners and technology colleagues

Drive the execution of project activities

• Track and manage requirements during the project execution and incorporate changes into the requirements through the established change management process.
• Work with Business Analysts assigned to the project to ensure that detailed requirements are adequately documented, agreed and formally approved.
• Provide leadership to the project team ensuring that team members are motivated to deliver.
• Support the execution of all project activities and resolve or mitigate risks or issues that could impact the committed delivery of the project.
• Ensure that unresolved risks and issues are escalated to the project board with an indication of the impact to the project. Include proposed solutions to respond to the risks or issues.
• Ensure that allocated resources are productive and focus their efforts on the project deliverables.
• Ensure the timeline completion and submission of timesheets and leave applications, for contracted resources.

Job Description - Project Manager

• Review the project financials on an ongoing basis.
• Monitor project progress against the defined schedule and cost using project metrics used in the bank.
• Control project scope changes through a formal process and ensure approval of scope changes by the correct level of approver.
• Material changes (items that could impact timelines or cost) require approval from the project board.
• Adhere to project governance through the project life cycle. Project governance standards for technology projects are defined by the IT PMO.
• Ensure that project reporting cycles are agreed with the project board and implemented.
• Prepare documents for project closure
• Contribute to building the bank's intellectual property by logging all good quality documents in the appropriate knowledge databases.
• Ensure accurate record keeping, document and content management of all project and business specification documents, research results, investigations and correspondence.
• Support business during the implementation of their changes for the duration of a pilot or warranty period.
• Conduct formal handover of the project items into business as usual including training material, project documentation, system documentation and process documents.
• Complete and submit documents required to formally close projects and capture lessons learnt where the business area has the facility to do so.

Behavioral Competencies - Documenting Facts

“Documenting Facts” emphasises logical reasoning, specifically when referring to an individuals’ understanding of information and the clear communication of such information in writing. Logical reasoning is supported by a fact based or objective approach.

Generating Ideas

The greater the number of alternative ideas or solutions generated, the greater the probability of finding a good solution. This competency is about how fluent an individual is at generating ideas, the number of ideas they generate and how confident they are in their ability to generate unusual ideas or favour radical solutions.

This is further enhanced by the extent to which an individual enjoys the creative process.

Adopting Practical Approaches

Adopting practical solutions with an emphasis on learning by doing. This competency requires individuals to utilise common sense when required. Ultimately, this competency is important in order to ensure that organisations implement feasible solutions.

Challenging Ideas

Facilitating or catalysing change in an organisation. "Challenging Ideas"

Associated with questioning assumptions, challenging established views and arguing personal perspectives.

Articulating Information

Effectively expressing ideas and concerns, giving presentations, explaining things to others as well as showing confidence in the interaction with other people, both strangers and acquaintances alike.

Team Working

Working well in a team. individuals are encouraged to acknowledge the views and contributions of others, and to involve others in decision-making.

Producing Outputs

Ensuring that tasks are completed within the given time-frame. Working at a fast pace, maintaining productivity and multi-tasking

Examining Information

This emphasises logical reasoning, specifically when referring to an individuals’ understanding of information and the clear communication of such information in writing. Logical reasoning is supported by a fact based or objective approach.

Leadership Competencies

Purposeful Collaboration -

Understands and leverages the dependencies across the organisation and the impact of own actions on the rest of the organisation to create organisation alignment for decision-making and delivery of quality outcomes.

Seeks input from other functions; When coming up with new plans, seeks input from the relevant functions to ensure alignment. Builds cross-functional teams to arrive at the best solution for the business as a whole.

Inspiring Performance for Execution

Enables and empowers the team to implement/execute a strategic vision or change for the better. Leads with passion and energy.

1 Creates the conditions for the team to work together; Encourages open communication in the team. Creates opportunities for team members to know each other and each other's contexts. Sets an example of desired team behaviours (e.g., is visibly open to feedback, forthright). Ensures that team members treat each other with respect. Listens to the team, their thoughts, and concerns. Promptly addresses morale problems

Technical Competencies

• Managerial Budgeting
• Risk Management
• Project Definition
• Project Management
• Project Planning
• Project Reporting
• Stakeholder Management

Qualifications

1. 3-year degree in Commerce or Information Technology

2. Certified Associate Project Manager (CAPM) or Certified in Prince2 Foundation

3. Certificate in Microsoft Project Yes

Experience

• Business Support Project Management 3-4 Years
• Experience in managing business or technology
• Projects ranging in value up to R2 million or the equivalent in local currency.

Technology Applications Support 1-2 Years

• Experience managing technology or software development projects would be advantageous.
• Indirect Reporting Lines Business Support Project Management 1-10
• Internal Relationships - Business Area (Business areas across the bank)
• Nature of Relationship - Receive support and advisory services Job

Project managers (Sphere of Influence)

Limited

Description

Develop and manage relationships with other project managers in other functions to manage interdependencies between projects and between functional areas that need to deliver the different project components.

Business Area - Technology

Nature of Relationship

Receive a service from them

Job - Business Information Officers

Sphere of Influence

Limited

Description

Build relationships with the Business Information Officers assigned to the portfolio to ensure that technology impacts of change projects can be addressed and supported timeously.

Business Area - Business

Nature of Relationship (Provide a service to them)

Job

Project boards, business owners and executive sponsors Sphere of Influence

Limited

Description

Build relationships with all business contributors to the projects to ensure that they buy in to the changes and that they are available to contribute expertise and work packages during the definition, design, development, implementation, and handover of projects.

External Relationships

Role Type

External project managers, business analysts and subject matter experts

Nature of Relationship

Receive a service from them

Description

For projects that require external support, brief the providers on the expectations arrange for Governance documents to be completed and manage their contributions to the

project.

Financial Accountability

Budget Type

Project Budget

Accountability Type

Contribute to its delivery

Size of Budget (ZAR

Equivalent)

R2 million to R90 million,

depending on the project

Working Conditions

Domestic/local travel may be required

Rest of Africa Travel may be required