Excellent opportunity exists for an Infrastructure Project Manager.
R 80 – R 100k per month (Pretoria/ DRC – 1 year Contract * possibility of renewal)
This is an URGENT Vacancy!

Required skills:

Relevant tertiary qualification

Certified PMBOK / Prince 2 methodology

Must be able to speak French fluently

7 -10 years’ experience in large scale IT infrastructure projects (Servers, Storage, Networks etc.)

Possesses critical soft skills and especially strong communication skills, both written and oral

Detailed oriented and strong organizational skills

Able to manage large complex projects independently and lead multiple projects simultaneously

Established leadership skills in a matrix organization structure

Strong understanding of MS Office Tools (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Visio)

Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize work, multi-task across many assignment

Willing to travel

Agile experience

Energetic & able to work independently


Job Description:

• The incumbent will be responsible for the management of medium to large IT centric applications or infrastructure projects and project teams made up of globally distributed technical and business teams having internal and vendor resources to deliver solutions and services to clients.
• Interact closely with the project managers, internal constituents, and external vendor or customer partners to define the project scope and detailed project deliverables required by NCR project processes. Partner with subject matter experts to translate project objectives and requirements into schedules and tasks using knowledge of the technical components, architecture, skills expertise, and needed.
• Assure proper conduct, documentation and communications of assigned project engagements.
• Candidate needs to demonstrate experience managing medium to large scale projects/programs and budgets within a PMO environment. IT infrastructure related project management experience is a must.
• Develops all project artifacts that a PM is expected to as per NCR PMO guidelines
• Creates and tracks program and project plans, milestones, deliverables and status
• Prepares project status reports as needed by different stakeholders and leads project status meetings
• Coordinates with IT management, business managers, resource managers and the EPMO manager for resource assignments, creation of project deliverables, issue resolution and escalation
• Complies with NCR project management methodologies as appropriate for the given project (Waterfall, SCRUM, SDLC, Agile) and supports requirements from internal and external audits teams
• Maintains project budgets including monthly accruals and forecasts
• Overall responsibility to deliver projects within scope, schedule and budget