Summary of Role

An intermediate project manager manages moderately complex projects, coordinating teams, managing timelines, budgets, and scope, while ensuring successful delivery and stakeholder satisfaction. Responsible for planning, executing, and closing projects, often with multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams in DT (Cyber, Infrastructure\OPS, Operational Technology and Information Platforms and Services).

Responsibilities

• Manage project initiation by developing and ensuring the project charter approval, identify and engage stakeholders.
  
• Maintain comprehensive and quality project documentation, including plans, schedules, reports, and meeting minutes. Ensure that all project documentation is accurate and up to date in the PMO Toolset as well as project folders.
  
• Identifying, managing, and communicating changes (risks and issues) that may affect the project
  
• Managing project team members by delegating tasks and setting expectations for performance
  
• Monitoring resource allocation, timelines, and other key metrics to ensure project milestones are met
  
• Facilitating meetings with stakeholders to ensure effective communication about projects
  
• Monitoring and controlling work input and scope to ensure that all projects remain on track and in control
  
• Ensuring the projects and activities are executed in the most efficient and agile way based on agreed company methodologies, tools, and processes
  
• Planning and managing program stakeholders, scope, activities, conflict resolution, and approach in and across a highly matrixed global organization through direct interaction and communication, regular status reports and personally managing escalations, when necessary
  
• Report on final progress on the project, control variances and ensure approvals
  
• Following the change methodology, participate, facilitate, drive the deliverables and manage feedback with the senior leadership on the project to ensure successful adoption.
  

Requirements

Skills:

• Matric and a Tertiary Qualification
  
• 5 years’ experience in a similar role
  
• Proficiency in project management methodology, tools, and templates (includes project planning, schedule development, scope management and cost management)
  
• Formidable team working skills across matrixed client, supplier, and geographically dispersed virtual teams
  
• Instrumental in the use of IT methodologies, processes, and standards for project management
  
• CAPM, PMP or similar project management certification is required
  
• MS project and\other similar scheduling tools is preferred
  
• Experience in delivery that includes the use of external supplier and offshore resources
  
• Excellent communication skills and presenting to senior leadership
  
• 4 yrs experience in project governance and working with a PMO environment
  
• Experience in participating or driving change management as part of the project
  
• Communicating with Senior stakeholders (Steercoms, Status reporting, Weekly meetings)