POSITION: SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER BASED: CENTURION
SALARY RANGE: NEGOTIABLE

Our client in the financial industry urgently seeks to appoint a Senior Project Manager to manage the organisational projects using the appropriate Project Management methodologies
Minimum Requirements:
• An undergraduate university degree is essential
• Postgraduate qualification in project management
• Minimum six (6) years of broad-based information systems and business experience
• Minimum six (6)years of project management experience in the delivery of ICT based business solutions projects
• Minimum six (6) years of demonstrated management/supervisory experience in systems development/integration
• Business analysis experience desirable
• Strong PC skills including Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word
• Ability to organise, delegate and leverage resources to accomplish objectives
• Excellent time management skills.
• Management skills including financial and accounting operations management and program/project management skills and experience.
• Professional development skills such as oral and written communications, personal credibility, teamwork and collaboration, work planning, and estimating.
• Strategic skills such as business diagnosis and assessment, business case development
• Supervisory skills and the ability to leverage support from other parts of the organisation.
• Manage relationships with suppliers and subcontractors.
• Ensure that the project team follows all quality assurance processes, including periodic reviews and transitions.
• Accredited PMP certification in project management an added advantage
• Change Management skills and the management of relationships with internal and external stakeholders
Duties will include but are not limited to:
• Structure the business case for the project concepts identified and conduct general cost/benefit analysis, if required.
• Develop a project charter and establish a high-level roadmap to deliver on the project vision and outputs/outcomes.
• Develop a detailed project plan using approved project management methodologies and processes.
• Drive the performance of the project, provide active management of project components/work streams and resolve project quality and design issues.
• Manage the project constraints to ensure quality delivery on time and within budget
• Integrate the various design components of the project (process, people, technology dimensions).
• Apply the company’s project, business analysis, change management and ICT Solution Delivery Life-Cycle methodologies and practices in an appropriate manner.
• Empower project stakeholders through project information and feedback to make judicious project decisions at Steering Committee level.
• Provide a single point of focus for all project issues, governance, and escalation of risks and consideration of alternative project options.
• Monitor, control and communicate project progress using the reporting standards (status reports, etc)
• Establish mechanisms to assess the eventual realisation of benefits committed to in the business case.
• Ensure efficient management of project resources
• Monitor project risks and establish prevention and mitigation procedures, as required.
• Perform project close out activities
• Ensure that all aspects of a project are managed visibly including the following methodologies and deliverable: project management, change management, system development life cycle and business analysis.
• Apply the confirmed project/ programme governance structure with the appropriate controls and measures.
• Manages the project team/team leads, reviews and quality assures work of team/team leads, Co-ordinates steering committee activities in consultation with Sponsor.
• Engages with multiple and diverse stakeholders so that expectations are managed and the project is delivered successfully.
• Manages external service providers. Monitor their progress and adherence to the contract

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

• Customer Service: Takes personal responsibility for correcting customer service problems
• Flexibility: Applies rules flexibly - Changes his/her perception, ideas or alters normal procedures to fit a specific situation to get a job done and/or meet company goals
• Impact and influence: Takes multiple actions to persuade by taking two or more steps to persuade without trying to adapt specifically to level or interest of audience
• Organisational commitment: Models loyalty by respecting and accepting what authorities see as important
• Commitment to professional learning: Proactively keeps current in own field of expertise by seeking out new approaches, tools, methods and/or technologies in own field of expertise by reading, talking to others inside an outside the organisation, attending industry seminars/conferences
• Teamwork: Solicits inputs genuinely values others' input and expertise
• Conceptual thinking: Applies learned complex concepts by using knowledge of theory or of different past situations to look at current stations
• Achievement orientation: Creates own measures of excellence by keeping track of and measures outcome against standard of excellence not imposed by others
• Initiative: Acts up to 3 months ahead by demonstrating the ability to anticipate and proactively manage all the variables involved, to ensure that critical opportunities for the Centre are not missed.

Deadline: 30/08/2016