Senior Project Manager: CEC at Blue Label Telecoms

Job Purpose

Accountable for large projects of high complexity with a large, dispersed team. Focuses on the creation of the project vision and planning documents and managing the implementation, reporting, and performance of the overall project with the expectation of delivering on time, within budget, and to scope.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Planning

• Manage the production of project and workstream plans, ensuring that all activities are identified, are appropriately organized and resourced to deliver project objectives, and comply with the organization's project and program management framework

Project Scope Definition

• Plan and lead the delivery of a range of information gathering, analysis, and stakeholder consultation activities and specify, negotiate, and agree on project deliverables

Stakeholder Management

• Develop and implement stakeholder engagement plans for projects to identify relevant stakeholders, to develop positive stakeholder relationships, and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice

Project Risk and Issue Management

• Manage identification of risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating these where appropriate
• Where necessary, develop, agree on, and implement solutions to overcome these

Requirements Management

• Manage the identification, elicitation of project and/or department-level process requirements
• Conduct analysis of those requirements for accuracy and alignment to the department
• Document and manage requirements throughout the life of the project and coordinate the verification of the end deliverable

Project Team Management

• Lead a medium to large project team; defines the project vision and communicates the outcomes needed along with guidance to achieve outcome, coordinates team actions on project activities
• Coordinates flow of additional team members on and off the team as needed
• Works to build the capability of the team through training, coaching and mentoring

Project Assurance

• Manage the delivery of assurance reviews within a project, enable the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties, and take appropriate action to resolve any issues identified to give senior stakeholders confidence that the project can deliver to time, budget, and quality

Continuous Improvement

• Review existing operations in a major area of work and implement innovation processes to generate new ideas and ensure the required continuous improvement outcomes are delivered

Project Resource Management

• Negotiate and manage deployment of project resource budgets, providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization

Project Benefit Realization

• Develop and manage the delivery of a plan to evaluate and track business benefits and to identify actions needed to maximize these

Project Close-out and Handover

• Manage project close-out to ensure effective transition from the project environment to business as usual and to ensure lessons learned are identified and captured for future reference

Project Reporting and Review

• Manage the project review process; provide stakeholders with accurate and relevant information and key recommendations at agreed review points to enable them to evaluate progress and agree on change

Personal Capability Building

• Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team
• Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging external regulation and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media

Requirements:

Behavioural Competencies

• Ensures Accountability
• Balances Stakeholders
• Plans and Aligns
• Complete Plans
• Communicates Effectively
• Manages Complexity
• Organizational Savvy
• Optimizes Work Processes
• Situational Adaptability
• Drives Results
• Being Resilient
• Decision Quality
• Collaborates
• Customer Focus
• Develops Talent
• Manages Conflict
• Cultivates Innovation
• Drives Vision and Purpose

Skills

• Project Management
• Prioritizing
• Project Communications Management
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Negotiation
• Project Change Management
• Project Quality Management
• Project Resource Planning and Control
• Project Risk and Issue Management
• Requirements Traceability and Management
• Verify Requirements
• Measure Solution Performance
• Policy and procedures
• Project Cost and Budget Management
• Project Estimating
• Project Integration Management
• Project Meetings and Ceremonies
• Project Organization and Structure
• Project Schedule Management
• Project Scope Management
• Project Testing
• Project Tracking and Reporting
• Requirements Elicitation and Facilitation
• Stakeholder Expectation Management
• Supplier Management
• Validate Requirements
• Verbal Communication
• Workflow Management

Education

• Matric
• Related Degree

Experience

• Experience enables job holders to deal with the majority of situations and to advise others (Over 3 years to 6 years)
• Experience in planning and managing resources to deliver predetermined objectives as specified by more senior managers (Over 3 years to 6 years)