Project Manager at Wits Health Consortium

About the job

• The ideal candidate will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and implementing projects within the decided-upon budget, timeline, and scope. They will also effectively monitor and present project updates to relevant stakeholders, clients, or project team members. 

Responsibilities

• Set project timeline
• Monitor project deliverables
• Update relevant stakeholders or team members on the project progress
• Coach and support project team members with tasks you assign them

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Strong business acumen in project planning and management
• Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills

Project Management -:

•  Overall management and supervision of projects in line with sponsor requirements and the scope of work (SOW).
•  Renegotiates commitments and deadlines as circumstances dictates, ensuring no surprises as the expected completion.
•  Selects solutions to basic problems, considering predefined options and using clear criteria/procedures.
•  When predefined solutions are not applicable, identifies straightforward and practical solutions.
•  Responsible for ensuring those outcomes are evaluated and that problems have been resolved.
•  Initiate meetings with sites to discuss activities and EQA performance, provide updates, discuss and resolve issues.
•  Generating reports to senior management.
•  Project Budget management including costing, quotes creation, procurement and referral lab selection.

EQA Program -:

•  Call external laboratories for EQA samples
•  Ordering of laboratory supplies.
•  Prepare slides and ship to participating laboratories.
•  Real time update of EQA slide stock list.
•  Participate in internal and external EQA programs
•  Training of site staff on EQA programs

Training and Development -:

•  Design and provide training interventions to site staff in line with project protocol requirements.
•  Utilise new techniques in conducting on-site and offsite remote training for staff.
•  Provide remote support for submission of EQAs, review of NCs and providing interventions to improve site staff working abilities.
•  Identify and provide training for new methods/laboratory techniques in diagnostics.

Required minimum education and training

• National Diploma in Biomedical Technology or BSc Medical Science
• Professional body registration
• HPCSA registration

Desirable additional education, work experience and personal abilities

•  Certification in good clinical Laboratory practice (GCLP) is required
•  Must have a working knowledge of Microsoft office and an understanding of business principles & areas of business
•  Ability to work independently
•  The scope of responsibilities associated with the role is broad and demands achievement of a wide-ranging number of deliverables simultaneously
•  Client interaction and negotiation
•  Must be able to operate in a pressurized environment
•  Experience working as a medical technologist/technician/scientist
•  Will be required to interact with various internal stakeholders e.g., IT, LDMS, laboratory staff and other project managers.
•  Communicate well - verbally and in writing.

Required minimum work experience

• Minimum 5 years in a medical laboratory environment
• Minimum 3 years project management experience