Project Manager at Watershed Consulting

This role is responsible for the planning, executing, monitoring, controlling and closing of Business and Information Technology projects in support of business objectives and ongoing operations.  This includes managing projects and producing required artefacts in accordance with the Bank’s project management methodology. The project manager is the key point of contact among project stakeholders

Qualifications

• Project Management qualification or certification (CAPM,PMP,SCRUM) or;
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field

Experience.

• 6-10 years project management experience within a Banking environment.
• Experience managing projects following the PMBOK and/or Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Experience managing software development or QA projects will be highly advantageous

Job Specific Requirements.

• Excellent communication skills. Uses diplomacy and assertiveness as required in communication with external and internal stakeholders;
• Be the single point of contact among project stakeholders;
• Is well experienced in influencing business user decision making and direction. Takes time to establish underlying needs of business beyond those initially expressed;
• Must be able to conform with methodologies and processes

Duties and Responsibilities

Project Management 

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• Scope of responsibility includes any and all phases of the project life cycle as well as project team management.
• Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of software development projects with diverse scope.
• Works with the project sponsor for the execution of the project charter outlining goals, budget, timing, deliverables, project scope, and required resources.
• Completes work breakdown structure for the estimation of efforts needed for each task in association with the developers or other skilled resources involved.
• Prepares and provides a project schedule to all participants to identify the commencement of their tasks.
• Ensures that realistic project plans are maintained and ensuring regular and accurate communication to stakeholders, consistent with the methods in use.
• Resolves issues and solves problems throughout the project cycle
• Tracks and reports project milestones and provides status reports to project sponsors
• Tracks resources and ensures deliverables are met
• Meets on-time and on-budget project goals and participates in the identification of and planning for future resourcing needs
• Leads knowledge transfer and project post-mortem for lessons learned and improving best practices

Critical Outcomes

• Projects and phases delivered on time and within budget
• Stakeholders have accurate updates on the plans of projects and phases
• Stakeholders have accurate updates on the status of projects and phases in execution

People Management

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• Coach, mentor motivate and supervise project team members and contractors.   Influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Identify performance issues and take remedial action where necessary
• Provide regular feedback on staff performance
• Develop individual goals and align these with the team goals
• Identify training needs

Critical outcomes

• Motivated staff who deliver to expectations
• Staff that are continuously learning and applying lessons learned for the benefit of the bank

Business Interaction

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• Takes responsibility for understanding business owner requirements, seeking to address business user needs, identifying, evaluating and recommending options.
• Is accountable for communication between project teams and business owners

Critical outcomes

• Business users have accurate updates on the status of project executions.
• Project executions are prioritised by business need
• Project deliverables satisfy business requirements

Quality Assurance

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• Works closely with the quality assurance team
• Develops test plans and rest reports when required
• Ensures consistent high-quality deliverables evidenced by formal test
• Project reports are informed by test reports and/or test execution results

Critical outcomes

• Business users have accurate updates on the status of project executions.
• Project executions are prioritised by business need
• Project deliverables satisfy business requirements