Middle Manager Project Portfolio Delivery (Project Development) at Eskom Communications

Job description
Skills and Competencies Required

Behavioural:

• Resilience and flexibility
• Integrity and values
• Professionalism
• Trustworthiness

Leadership:

• Strategy generation and alignment
• Change leadership
• Stakeholder mobilisation management
• Represents Esko
• Embraces diversity
• Emotional maturity
• Negotiation and conflict resolution
• Business acumen
• Teamwork, collaboration
• Dealing with complexity
• Working with authority
• Providing direction through change
• Strategic thinking
• Building, develop teams
• Building cross boundary, cultural relationships• Customer orientation

Knowledge:

• Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and other project management systems and tools
• Construction management and regulations Earned value management (EVM)
• Contracts management
• Quantity surveying
• Financial management
• General management
• Portfolio strategic alignment
• Portfolio governance management
• Portfolio performance management
• Portfolio communications management
• Portfolio risk management
• Portfolio stakeholder management

Skill:

• Problem-solving
• Judgment and decision making
• Influencing and persuading
• Client focus
• Organisational communication
• Delegation of authority and responsibility
• Developing organisational talent
• Negotiation, persuasiveness
• Planning and organising
• Strategic functional leadership

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of project management procedures, guidelines and standards.
• Manage portfolio accounting, costing and cost control systems.
• Monitor, assess and improve the network expansion portfolio execution of projects.
• Manage portfolio planning and schedule control processes.
• Establish and manage the project contracting environment.
• Act as a project management centre of excellence.
• Manage programme and project management mentoring and coaching.

Minimum requirements
Qualification(s):

• B Degree / B Tech / Advanced Diploma in Built Environment / Commerce / Human Sciences at NQF7 with 360 credits

Experience:

• 7 years’ Experience in Project management

Apply by: 20 March 2026