Project Manager

Paracon

  • Cape Town, Western Cape
  • Contract
  • Full-time
  • 2 days ago
To project manage small, medium and large projects, as well as provide support and guidance to the project coordinators in the Company's PMO where and when necessary.Role Responsibilities:
  • Support and provide guidance to the project coordinators in the team
  • Continual improvement in the project management space - thinking outside of the box
  • Co-ordinate and manage all project activities end-to-end
  • Develop project plans that identify resource and budgetary needs
  • Develop all required project artifacts per the process/methodology expectations
  • Track delivery timescales and expected benefits
  • Manage budgets - costs vs income
  • Booking, and managing the exact resources to be used to deliver the stage, whilst conforming to the overall project plan – Manage deadlines and push the team to ensure timeliness
  • Monitoring, and regular reporting on the overall progress against defined project scope
  • Management and clear communication of risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies
  • Provide feedback, advice, project updates and encouragement to team members
  • Attend and run project meetings, achieving common understanding and accurate outcomes
  • Co-ordinate tasks in teams
  • Accurate progress reporting into the bigger programmes where applicable
Qualification and Experience
  • 5+ years proven track record experience in project management of ICT projects
  • Experienced at coordinating and managing all aspects of a portfolio of small, medium, and large (complex) projects simultaneously
  • Good interpersonal skills and ability to build sound business relationships
  • Good written and spoken communications at all levels of business
  • Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
  • Organised approach to work, managing own and others workload
  • Experienced at setting up meetings and keeping minutes
  • Experience of Microsoft applications:
  • Using Microsoft Project
  • Use of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Producing project progress reports
  • Ability to follow defined guidelines and processes
  • IT Service Management experience would be beneficial
  • Grade 12
  • Project Management qualification or certification
  • ICT-related qualification or certification (or equivalent work experience)
  • Additional Skills:
  • PRINCE2 or PMBOK (Practitioner Level)
  • ITIL exposure and understanding
  • ICT Technical background is essential
Job Type:
  • Contract
Workplace type:
  • Hybrid
Location:
  • Cape town
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