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Minimum Requirements: 

• Bachelors degree in business, Sales, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
• 5 + years of experience in Microsoft Solutions Sales.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Products, Services, and Licensing Models.
• Proven track record in achieving and exceeding sales targets.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Ability to build and maintain strong client relationships.
• Results-driven mindset with a focus on customer satisfaction.
• Microsoft certifications (such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals) are a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Client Engagement: Understand client requirements and challenges; present and demonstrate tailored Microsoft solutions to address these needs.
• Sales Development: Develop and execute sales strategies to promote Microsoft solutions and achieve sales targets.
• Product Knowledge: Stay up to date with Microsoft products, services, and licensing options; effectively communicate the value propositions to clients.
• Relationship Building: Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, Microsoft partners, and internal teams to ensure seamless service delivery.
• Sales Negotiation: Negotiate contracts, pricing, and terms to close sales deals, ensuring mutual satisfaction.
• Market Analysis: Monitor market trends, competitor activities, and customer feedback to identify opportunities and challenges.
• Sales Reporting: Prepare and submit regular sales reports, forecasts, and updates to the sales management team.
• Customer Support: Provide post-sales support and coordinate with technical teams to ensure client satisfaction and problem resolution.

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Minimum requirements:

• Proven Track Record of similar type role on large scale ERP programmes
• Strong and experienced cutover lead required to ensure thorough planning, execution, and completion of all relevant cutovers during Project Horizon rollouts.
• Previous MS D365 cutover experience will be an advantage
• Vendor interaction and vendor activity tracking experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work remote and drive active participation and task completion in an online environment
• Ability to work with diverse project teams
• Flexibility on working hours roll-out and cutover phases necessitate some shift type patterns at times
• Possible travel when restrictions are lifted
• Tenacity and resilience to push through and remain positively focussed when extreme challenges are experienced
• Ability to be firm but approachable with diverse team of all backgrounds and experts in their own function and lead activities with positive mindset

Responsibilities:

• Develops detailed cutover checklist, integrated and consolidated project plan incorporating all Cut-Over activities across Project Scope, including technical, data and operations or business tasks with inputs on Business Activity and project teams, including potential Go- Live scenarios.
• Conduct Workshops on Cut-Over activities with all related project streams and business and collect appropriate cutover steps to be performed and works closely with the workgroups to document the integrated cutover plan for each application
• Ensures proper integration between different streams to form one integrated set of activities for a one integrated cutover plan
• Responsible for detailed project management of the cutover and conversion deliverables to the new system/s, resolving discrepancies or process issues related to cutover
• Responsible for ensuring successful planning and execution of integrated release cutover activities and associated system outages
• Plans the resources, human and physical required for cut-over activities and coordinates requirements for Go Live staffing and overall logistics
• Develops the cutover command centre logistics, communication and escalation plan and command centre documentation (policies, procedures, downtime processes)
• Provides Cutover status reporting to project leadership and key stakeholders
• Ensures entry and exit criteria for each cutover is well articulated, documented and agreed with all stakeholders
• Ensures entry into and exit out of cutover stage gates and audit requirements are met 
• including the final Go/No-Go meetings for each roll-out
• Acts as the final point of escalation for all Cut-over issues, proactively bringing about appropriate interventions when the Cutover/s may be jeopardized
• Leads integrated cutover activities for Pre-Go-Live, Go-Live and Post Go-Live for 6 Cut- Over cycles:
• Leads integrated cutover activities for multiple countries simultaneously, remotely, post SA deployment
• Develops integrated Roll-Back Plan and Strategy and back out / contingency plans for Cutover/s
• Raise Risks and Issues and perform mitigating actions to minimize risk on Business Operations and Technical Cut-Over
• Ensure the security of the IT organisations data, applications, and infrastructure against accidental or unauthorised modification, destruction, or disclosure
• Ensure communication of the relevant components of the cutover plans including related dependencies with sub streams, with all relevant stakeholders
• Develop, own, and lead a detailed operational/business preparation plan/s for build-up to cutover and cutover for each business function, taking into consideration customers, vendors, employees, business peak times, downtime the business can handle, how catchup will work etc.

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• We are looking to hire web developer graduates, with or without experience who are passionate about the industry and that strive to create meaningful experiences for clients.
• The candidate must be creative and innovative in order to bring the brief and concepts to life through developing and designing effective and innovative websites.
• The candidate must have good project management and communication skills in order to collaborate with different team members and departments in order to create, maintain and update websites.
• Further, the candidate must be able to do research, as well as have the motivation to continually improve themselves by keeping up-to date with latest trends within their field.

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelors Degree
• Relevant Web Development certifications

Skills:

• We are aware that this is a junior position we therefore do not require the candidates to be proficient in every skill thats listed below.
• Be creative, adaptable to trends and conceptualise original ideas
• Good communication skills
• Developing websites according to brief
• JavaScript
• HTML
• CSS
• WordPress
• E-Commerce website

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Duties and responsibilities:

• Analyzing and interpreting the requests to ensure the classification, prioritization and escalation of the requests are correct.
• Work closely with other teams to ensure the quick resolution of faults and the user and/or client are kept updated on the progress in relation to the resolution of the fault.
• Identification of failures and short-comings in the current processes and escalate with recommendations.
• Addressing the issues logged by the clients in a professional and timely fashion.
• Be responsible for receiving, validating and logging service requests.
• Tracking and updating logged requests.
• Service Desk / Server / Desktop Support
• Ability to troubleshoot hardware and software issues around Microsoft and Linux technologies
• Ability to research and solve problems/challenges on a day-to-day basis
• Must be able to adapt to change (Infrastructure and Environment)
• Need to travel to clients site

Qualifications and experience:

• Higher Certificate in IT / Higher Certificate in Information Systems
• Higher National Diploma in Technology
• Bachelors Degree in IT (advantageous)
• A+ and N+ Certification

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• The candidate must have good project management skills and communication skills in order to collaborate with different team members and departments in order to define and implement the main features of the design.
• Further, the candidate must be able to do research, as well as have the motivation to continually improve themselves by keeping up-to date with latest trends within their field.

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelors Degree in Graphic Art/Design (advantageous)
• National Diploma in Graphic Art/Design or any related creative field.

Skills:

• We are aware that this is a junior position and we therefore do not require the candidates to be proficient in every skill thats listed below.
• Create clean design and concepts
• Be creative, adaptable to trends and conceptualise original ideas.
• Understanding the Principles of Design
• Good communication skills.
• Adobe Illustrator
• Figma editing programme.
• The Adobe Suite
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Photoshop

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• The developers will work on worldwide projects based out of South Africa. \
• The candidate must have project management skills as well as time management skills in order to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• They will be responsible for creating visually appealing and user-friendly web and mobile applications.
• The candidate must have the motivation to continuously implement self-improvement through researching the newest software technologies. Skills in Microsoft Maui, Xamarin, Visual Studio, C, Angular, React. Occasional travel to Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the USA will be required.

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelors Degree in Information Technology.
• Relevant IT or Development certification.

Skills:

• We are aware that this is a junior position we therefore do not require the candidates to be proficient in every skill thats listed below. They only need to have basic understanding with regards to the below:
• Microsoft Maui,
• Xamarin,
• Visual Studio,
• C#,
• Angular,
• React.
• HTML5,
• CSS 3,
• JavaScript,
• jQuery,
• Bootstrap,
• Responsive design.
• MVC,
• VB.net,
• razor,
• IIS,
• ASP.net,
• .Net core (Dot Net core)
• WCF/Web services,
• WebAPI

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Responsibilities:

• Ensuring all information and documentation is processed, maintained, monitored, and filed.
• Manage and control documents, such as form templates, meeting minutes, reports, plans and schedules. Ensures only the latest versions are available for use by PMO team members. Properly controlling revision. The administrator also manages the office's document management software application to keep the content organized and user-friendly.
• Manages the office's document management software application to keep the content organized and user-friendly.
• Schedule training classes to advance the skills and capabilities of project managers
• Co-ordinate the collation of reports and produce summary reports and packs.
• Maintain risks, actions, issues, change and dependency registers.
• Distributes information to project team members, PMO staff members and other stakeholders in the workplace who are or will be affected by the PMO's projects
• Oversee the establishment, creation and distribution of portfolio reports.
• Responsible for presenting status information for all projects to leadership teams. Reports project status and health, resource availability, cost management and performance metrics.
• Developing, implementing and updating resource allocations plans (other than finance) needed for projects and/or programmes and/or portfolios, taking account of availabilities and scheduling
• Identifying and monitoring project and/or programme and/or portfolio risks (threats and opportunities), planning and implementing responses to them and responding to other issues that affect projects and/or programmes and/or portfolios
• Working knowledge of Preparing and maintaining schedules for project and/or programme and/or portfolio activities and events, taking account of dependencies and resource requirements
• Maintaining governance arrangements for the delivery of projects and/or programmes and/or portfolios, defining clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities, that align with organisational practice
• Coordination and arrangements for project related Travel
• Providing a comprehensive administrative service, including assisting in setting up workshops, meetings, taking minutes, chasing actions, arranging travel, arranging quotations and purchases, and managing ad-hoc queries.
• Works with training providers and processes payments against invoices received
• Maintain systems for recording costs, timesheets, purchases, and expenses.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in IT related fields

Experience:

• 3-5 years' experience in It related field
• 5+ years' experience in program / project management

Tools:

• Prior experience with MS project, and other project management portfolio e.g. Microsoft dynamics, Power PPM or similar

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Minimum Requirements:

• IT, B. Tech or Engineering Diploma
• HCIP R&S or DATACOM
• TOGAF (Desirable)
• A sound understanding of ICT industry practices and frameworks (MEF, TMForum etc)
• IT network services training and extensive knowledge of the below protocols and principles:
• Public network services - DHCP, DNS, ICMP, ENUM
• Security in Public IP Networks: DDoS, Firewalls, Access Control, RADIUS, AAA and security countermeasures
• Strong knowledge of WAN and W/LAN principles
• Internet service, business-quality service
• IP interconnect services: transit, peering, ISPs, service levels, class of service
• Layer 2 and Layer 3 technologies
• Traffic policing, shaping and Firewall management
• Cloud services
• Software Defined Networks
• Unified Communication and VoIP principles
• NMS systems and functions

Years of Experience

• Minimum 3 plus years of relevant working experience
• Technical understanding of a system being analysed and how it affects the various business units
• Understanding and experience on multi-vendor IP systems
• Experience with regards to the integration of networks with 3rd party systems
• Able to work well with both internal and external clients and within a team

Responsibilities:

• Able to give Tier 2 support to the network
• Maintain Network configuration and service database
• Back office support - Incident management for failures betweencore sites
• IP routing optimization
• Firewall/security Monitoring and Management
• Regular patching in terms of security new versions and bug fixing
• Network on boarding and LAN Network integration support
• Service desk/call center services and equipment and management
• IP Core and DWDM Tier 2 support and 3rd Party Support escalation requirements
• Problem Management
• Root Cause Analysis investigations
• Network Optimization
• Network Utilization reporting
• Daily/weekly and Monthly reporting on core interfacing services and equipment
• 3rd party engagement/escalation/management