Strategic Project Lead: Business Change and Value office at Auditor-General of South Africa

Strategic Function

• Contribute to the formulation and drive the implementation of the AGSA’s long term strategy in the Business Change and Value office.
• Prioritise strategic initiatives across the AGSA.
• Drive institutionalisation of strategic projects across the AGSA.
• Drive efforts to institutionalise strategic programmes within AGSA, ensuring ownership and accountability across business units and stakeholders.
• Lead the realisation of benefits of strategic projects and programmes across the AGSA value chain.
• Influence EXCO structures and interface with PPIC/other relevant committees.

Product Management

• Ensure the integration and alignment of strategic projects and programmes across the AGSA.
• Optimize the execution of projects and programmes to ensure benefits realisation across the programme and projects.
• Oversee the Governance, Risk and Compliance process for Programmes and Projects.
• Monitor and evaluate benefits realisation across the strategic projects and programmes.
• Ensure Project Sponsor is accountable for compliance and adherence across the various strategic projects and programmes.
• Manage the optimization of processes, resource allocation across strategic projects and programmes.
• Act as the custodian of strategic programme and project optimisation.
• Influence resource allocation based on impact, benefits realisation, and enforcement.
• Drive the institutionalization and ownership of strategic programmes in the various stakeholder groupings.
• Utilise data to create insights that inform business performance against strategic projects and programmes.
• Ensure benefits realization projects and programmes across the value chain.
• Ensure effective governance, risk, compliance and leadership ownership through the various project and programme stage gates.
• Ensure adherence to the Business Change and Value office framework.
• Resolve Conflicts and escalate to PPIC and / or other relevant stakeholders.
• Act as a mediator to resolve conflicts among key decision-makers within the organisation and escalate unresolved issues to the PPIC and / or other relevant stakeholders for resolution.

Stakeholder Management

• Drive visibility through effective internal and external stakeholder engagements.
• Implement the stakeholder engagement plan in line with the AGSA stakeholder engagement framework.
• Direct stakeholders through stage gates to deliver on the benefits realisation mandate of strategic projects and programmes.
• Influence EXCO structures, interfacing with the PPIC, and making recommendations for go or no-go decisions based on the Business Change and Value office framework and standards for excellence.
• Establish strong relationships with executive leadership and effectively interface with the Programme and Project Investment Committee (PPIC) to drive decision-making aligned with Business Change and Value office objectives.
• Collaborate closely with People Portfolio to ensure change management on Business Change and Value office capability is embedded and supporting business on change management guidelines on any strategic projects undertaken.
• Provide leadership, oversight and support of key projects and programmes.

People Management

• Participate and/ or take lead in the business unit transformation/ culture plans.
• Provide support to the management team regarding centre management and other people-related tasks.

Financial Management

• Assist in managing and reporting on the centre budget in accordance with the approved finance policies.
• Contribute in compiling of the centre budget, implement and monitor the budget for the allocated projects.
• Ensure compliance to AGSA policies and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with internal processes and procedures.
• Manage supply chain processes within scope of work

Other responsibilities (Applicable to All JD’s)

• Perform and/or manage other projects, tasks and assignments not stipulated on the Job description as and when required.

Formal Education

• This position requires a minimum NQF Level 8 i.e. Master of Business Administration (MBA) or MBA in Project Management or equivalent.

Experience

• Minimum 10+ year’s relevant experience with at least 6 years’ experience operating at a senior management/ executive level in the management of large and complex Digital Transformation, Information Technology and other strategic business-related projects and programs.