Job Summary
To provide advanced project management services and to develop, maintain, and enhance operational business relationships.
Job Description
Project Management: Monitors the progression of a project at every stage and ensures that the objectives of a project are met.
The Project Manager is accountable for:
- Managing relationships with the project stakeholders and customers
- Creating and maintaining a consistent, coherent project plan that can be used to guide project execution and project control
- Planning, defining the scope of the project, and controlling changes
- Formalizing acceptance of the scope by stakeholders
- Planning, defining the schedule of the project, and controlling changes
- Planning resources, estimating cost, allocating project budget, and controlling changes to the budget
- Maintaining quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control for the project
- Identifying, documenting, and assigning project roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships
- Ensuring timely and appropriate generation and dissemination of project information
- Identifying, analyzing, and managing project risks
Deliver & Support
- Deliver projects in keeping with cost, quality, schedule, and agreed criteria
- Identify, assess, and manage project risks, which could result in time or cost overruns or failure to deliver products that are fit for purpose
- Optimize total utilization for all project resources
- Ensure the participation and commitment of project stakeholders to project activities/reviews as required
- Ensure timely dissemination of appropriate project information to stakeholders
- Control changes to project scope, schedule, and budget
- Collect and disseminate performance information - status reporting, progress measurement, and forecasting
- Manage responses to risks and changes to risks over the course of the project
- Generate, gather, and disseminate information to formalize project completion
- Ensure that projects are formally closed and, where appropriate, subsequently reviewed, and that lessons learned are captured and published
Plan & Organize
- Define, communicate, and gain agreement on the project scope
- Estimate costs, schedule, and resource requirements for the successful delivery of the project to an agreed scope
- Assist the Business Analyst, as necessary, in the development of a Business Case for the project
- Work with the Solution Architect, System Analyst, and Solution Delivery Manager to ensure that the project adheres to enterprise Architectural standards
- Divide the major project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components
- Identify the specific activities that must be performed to produce the project deliverables
- Identify and document dependencies between activities
- Analyze activity sequences, activity durations, and resource requirements to prepare the project schedule
- Evaluate risks and risk interactions to assess the range of possible project outcomes
- Identify procurement requirements
- Build and manage project charters, schedules, quality plans, budgets, and communication and risk management plans for projects
- Clearly specify the needs of individuals and of the team overall to meet the needs of the project
Education
Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce, and Management Studies (Required)
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