Desired Candidate Profile

- PMP or Prince2 certified in or before 2010

- Bachelors or higher education degree with overall 7+ years of experience with 2-3 years of experience in two or more of the following areas-

Organisational Project Management, Portfolio Management, Strategic Alignment and Execution, Program Management, Developing a Project Management Office, Organisational Project Management Maturity model.

- Hands-on knowledge of project management tools and techniques

- Must be a strategic thinker and innovator who has proven success advancing organisational maturity by building and leading successful teams by applying PMO methodologies tailored to the business culture.

- Must have the ability to develop and implement PMO processes and policies, directs project management staff, and works with other department leaders to define, prioritize, and develop projects and programs.

- Possesses outstanding analytic and problem solving skills as well as a strong ability to dissect up from business requirements and realize true business need in order to identify opportunities.

- Excellent communication skills and exposure to International assignments and/or client engagement with the ability to communicate at all levels.

- Excellent writing and reporting skills in order to transform the conversations and the current working procedures into a documented business process.

- Analytical bend of mind in order to understand the business needs and the workflow of the management and the administration tasks.

Job Description

The candidate will need to understand & comprehend client requirements and ensure the project is completed on time and within budget.

Key responsibilities include-

- Support project initiatives, including identifying and analyzing preliminary business needs, budget considerations, time and resource estimates, defining the project scope and objectives, and getting business user sign-off.

- Participates in departmental strategic and budgetary planning processes; provides recommendations on policies and goals desired; and implements new/revised programs according to established guidelines.

- Overall management and co-ordination of the Project.

- Defining the Project organisation and ensuring Project resources are in place.

- Managing and leading the Project team.

- Managing co-ordination of the workstreams and teams engaged in Project work.

- Ensures clear communication paths within the Project team and client and supplier.

- Setting and agreeing Project approach and ensuring integration of workstreams.

- Directing the production of a detailed, integrated Project plan.

- Managing Project dependencies and deliverables in line with the Project plan.

- Overall monitoring of Project risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies (RAID).

- Managing specific Project issues and risks and escalating where necessary.

- Monitoring of, and responding to, issues escalated by the workstreams.

- Resolving cross-functional issues at Project level.

- Managing Project scope and change control and escalating issues where necessary.

- Monitoring Project progress and performance and managing against the Project budget.

- Providing status reports to the Programme Manager and Programme Board.

- Liaison with, and updates progress to, programme board/senior management.

- Co-ordination of and input to the requirements and design.

- Ensure the requirements team and workstreams work closely with users to ensure the Project meets business needs.

- Day to day management of the workstream leads.

Working Conditions

- Travel may be required, must have a valid passport

- Ability to attend and conduct presentations.

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