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IT Project Manager (Banking)

To apply project management skills, tools and techniques to successfully deliver projects within approved parameters in terms of scope, cost and quality - Reports To Programme Manager or Portfolio Manager * 6-12 Month Contract (Market Related Salary)

• Domestic/local travel may be required
• Rest of Africa Travel may be required

The ideal candidate should have:

• 3-year degree in Commerce or Information Technology,
• Certified Associate Project Manager (CAPM) or Certified in Prince2 Foundation
• Certificate in Microsoft Project

Support the process of initiating projects and perform project planning * Ensure valid approved business cases obtained before commencement of new project work.

• Review authorisation of project dimensions (scope, cost) prior to commencing.
• Participate in constituting project board and identifying correct project stakeholders.
• Engage with key stakeholders ensuring involvement in the project at correct levels.
• Identify and manage project risks and issues, throughout the project life cycle.
• Raise key risks and issues at board level.
• Build and manage project plans and schedules.
• Project plans to cover various management plans covering scope, time, cost and quality management plans.
• Conduct estimations for project activities as it relates to their duration and resources required to perform the work.
• Conduct research into and make use of the appropriate existing intellectual property as relevant to the assigned project tasks.
• Ensure that existing information, processes and tools are maximised before recommending new approaches.
• Build relationships with key project participants include business owners, process owners and technology colleagues

Drive the execution of project activities

• Track and manage requirements during the project execution and incorporate changes into the requirements through the established change management process.
• Work with Business Analysts assigned to the project to ensure that detailed requirements are adequately documented, agreed and formally approved.
• Provide leadership to the project team ensuring that team members are motivated to deliver.
• Support the execution of all project activities and resolve or mitigate risks or issues that could impact the committed delivery of the project.
• Ensure that unresolved risks and issues are escalated to the project board with an indication of the impact to the project. Include proposed solutions to respond to the risks or issues.
• Ensure that allocated resources are productive and focus their efforts on the project deliverables.
• Ensure the timeline completion and submission of timesheets and leave applications, for contracted resources.
• Review the project financials on an ongoing basis.
• Monitor project progress against the defined schedule and cost using project metrics used in the bank.
• Control project scope changes through a formal process and ensure approval of scope changes by the correct level of approver.
• Material changes (items that could impact timelines or cost) require approval from the project board.
• Adhere to project governance through the project life cycle. Project governance standards for technology projects are defined by the IT PMO.
• Ensure that project reporting cycles are agreed with the project board and implemented.
• Prepare documents for project closure
• Contribute to building bank's intellectual property by logging quality documents in appropriate knowledge databases.
• Ensure accurate record keeping, document and content management of all project and business specification documents, research results, investigations and correspondence.
• Support business during the implementation of their changes for the duration of a pilot or warranty period.
• Conduct formal handover of the project items into business as usual including training material, project documentation, system documentation and process documents.
• Complete and submit documents required to formally close projects and capture lessons learnt where the business area has the facility to do so.

Behavioral Competencies - Documenting Facts

• Generating Ideas
• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Challenging Ideas
• Articulating Information
• Producing Outputs
• Examining Information

Leadership Competencies

• Purposeful Collaboration -

Understands and leverages the dependencies across the organisation and the impact of own actions on the rest of the organisation to create organisation alignment for decision-making and delivery of quality outcomes.

• Inspiring Performance for Execution

Enables and empowers the team to implement/execute a strategic vision or change for the better. Leads with passion and energy.

Technical Competencies

• Managerial Budgeting
• Risk Management
• Project Definition
• Project Management
• Project Planning
• Project Reporting
• Stakeholder Management

Qualifications * 3-year degree in Commerce or Information Technology

• Certified Associate Project Manager (CAPM) or Certified in Prince2 Foundation

• Certificate in Microsoft Project

Experience

• Business Support Project Management 3-4 Years
• Experience in managing business or technology
• Projects ranging in value up to R2 million or the equivalent in local currency.

Technology Applications Support 1-2 Years

• Experience managing technology or software development projects would be advantageous.
• Indirect Reporting Lines Business Support Project Management 1-10
• Internal Relationships - Business Area (Business areas across the bank)
• Nature of Relationship - Receive support and advisory services Job

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