IT Programme Manager - Cape Town Verfied

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 11-05-2019 6:45:32 PM
06-07-2019 6:45:32 PM

Purpose
The management of programs by aligning multiple components through structured oversight and governance to enable appropriate planning, control, delivery, transition, and benefits sustainment across the components within the program so as to achieve the program’s intended strategic benefits.
Qualifications Essential:
? Advanced Diploma / NQF level 7
? Bachelors Degree (3 years) / NQF level 7
Professional Registration Essential:
? Project Management Professional (PMP)
Desirable:
? PMIITPSA - Professional Member
? Programme Management Professional (PgMP)
Experience Essential:
? IT Project Management (5 years+)
? Background in ICT and large transformational projects and programs
? Benefits realisation management
Desirable:
? Exposure working on SAP implementations
Knowledge Essential:
? Detailed practical knowledge of project and program management methodologies, tools and techniques with in depth knowledge of at least one methodology
? Management of projects and programs within a large corporate environment
Desirable:
? Retail business environment
Skills Essential:
? Stakeholder management
? Governance management
? Financial management
? Analysing information
? Project management
? Communication

Job objectives
? Leading and coordinating common program activities, such as financing and procurement across all program components, work, or phases
? Resolving resource constraints and/or conflicts that affect multiple components within the program
? Communicating and reporting to stakeholders in a manner that reflects all activities within the program
? Responding proactively to risks spanning multiple components of the program
? Aligning program efforts with organisational/strategic direction that impacts and affects individual components, groups of components or program goals and objectives
? Resolving scope, cost, schedule, quality, and risk impacts within a shared governance structure
? Tailoring program management activities, processes, and interfaces to effectively address cultural, socioeconomic, political, and environmental differences in programs
? Enabling appropriate planning, control, delivery, transition, and benefits sustainment across the components within the program to achieve the program’s intended strategic benefits
? Manage and define programs by creating a program road map, program charter, program plan and developing the required infrastructure to support the program
? Monitor and control the program to ensure benefits delivery by initiating, planning and authorisation, oversight and integration of components within the program and implementing change requests where required
? Conduct benefits delivery management against the benefits realisation plan
? Closing of program components by ensuring their transition to operations
? Closing of the program by obtaining sign off and transitioning resources, responsibilities, knowledge, and lessons learned to another sustaining entity

Competencies Essential:
? Planning and Organising
? Persuading and Influencing
? Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
? Relating and Networking
? Leading and Supervising
? Presenting and communicating information
? Deciding and Initiating Action