Project Manager II - ICT, Vacancy at Tier 2 project budget in Accra, Ghana

Post:Project Manager II - ICT,
Organization:Tier 2 project budget
Location: Accra, Ghana

PURPOSE OF POSITION:
The Project Manager II role are responsible for the management of one or more medium to large-sized,
moderate to high complex projects and Tier 2 project budget. They develop the project scope, define project guidelines, obtain business and information technology sponsor approvals and coordinate the resources necessary to successfully complete the project. Other responsibilities include the refinement of requirements, project coordination, development of plans and schedules, resource planning and estimation and project maintenance.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT:

•     Develops and maintains productive working relationships with business owners, project sponsors, vendors and key clients.
•     An effective and productive working relationship with all project team members/sponsors, business owners, vendors and key clients.

PROJECT PLANNING:

•     Develops, and continually updates, project plans and schedules.
•     Develops product breakdown structures.
•     Identifies project dependencies prior to the start of the project.
•     Works with the Business Analysts and the client to define/refine the project scope.
•     Facilitates the gathering of information required to estimate project cost, resources, time and deliverables.
•     Prepares all project management baseline products.
•     Ensures that the project outcome reflects the goals of the client.
•     An up-to-date accurate, detailed (i.e., scope, cost, resources, outcomes) project plan.

CONFLICTS/PROBLEMS:

•     Negotiates conflicts and resolves issues that arise.
•     Acts as a mediator between stakeholders and team members.
•     Resolves any issues and solves problems throughout the project life cycle.
•     Project runs smoothly and all stakeholders are satisfied with results.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT:

•     Determines staffing requirements and forms project teams.
•     Develops budget requests for resources.
•     Works with resource managers in order to effectively align resources across projects.
•     Provides work direction and leadership to assigned projects, including scheduling, assignment of work and review of project efforts.
•     Evaluates project performance and makes recommendations for personnel actions.
•     Project teams are staffed appropriately (right number of resources with the required skills and competencies).
•     Team members are aware of their assignments and are evaluated on their performance.

PROCUREMENT PLANNING:

•     Assists with identifying which resources need to be procured outside the organization.
•     Describes technical or other issues that need to be considered and assists in the development of Statement of Work (SOWs).
•     Outside resources for projects are identified.

VENDOR PERFORMANCE:

•     Determines if external consultants or contractors will be required to complete project plan.
•     Recruits and manages appropriate staffing resources.
•     Provides advice and counsel to the vendor relationship decision-making and contract development processes.
•     Evaluates service provider performance.
•     Approves invoices for payment.
•     Provides an issue escalation path and resolves vendor performance disputes.
•     Vendor resources are obtained.
•     Vendor resources meet contract SOW and paid accordingly.
•     Vendor issues are resolved.

RISK MANAGEMENT:

•     Identifies the elements of risk in a project.
•     Analyzes and prioritizes consolidates project risks and assesses its potential impact to the client.
•     Develops and maintains risk plans, processes and systems in order to mitigate risk, with assistance.
•     Creates action plan for risks that occur and follows through on plan.
•     Maintains issue list, proactively escalating issues to project and departmental leadership to mitigate risk.
•     Recommends and takes action to direct analysis and solution of problems.
•     Project risks and mitigation strategies are identified, documented, executed and tracked.
•     Consolidated and prioritized project risks.

BUDGET:

•     Estimates costs associated with a project including physical, financial and human capital costs.
•     Develops a detailed cost baseline from cost estimations.
•     Refines project cost estimates and confirms funding sources.
•     Monitors and controls the actual cost of a project versus the budget.
•     Reviews bills and evaluates factors that may potentially cause cost changes.
•     Conducts in-depth root cause analysis of project budget discrepancies.
•     Project budget is estimated, tracked, and monitored for accuracy.
•     Project budget is monitored and controlled to not over run cost allocations.

POLICIES, PROCEDURES, AND STANDARDS:

•     Utilizes established project standards, procedures.
•     Contributes to the development of new quality metrics.
•     Compliance to established policies, procedures and standards.
•     Identification of quality metrics.

COMMUNICATIONS:

•     Develops a communication plan to convey project scope, goals, milestones, budget, risk, status, change requests and critical issues to the client and project team.
•     Assesses the effectiveness of the interaction and communication with the client and project team.
•     An effective communication strategy and plan.

COACHING/MENTORING:
    Coaches or mentors less experienced personnel.
    Transfer of knowledge to team members.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
REQUIRED:

•     Bachelor's degree in related field, specialized training or equivalent work experience.
•     Requires 5-7 years of IT work experience, including 2 or more years managing projects.
•     Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally, as necessary.
•     Business or Technical Analysis experience.
•     Strong, clear, concise and tactful communication and interpersonal skills to interact with all levels of staff and management.
•     Ability to negotiate consensus among diverse groups and influence and impact the activities of others not in your own reporting structure.
•     Ability to effectively present complex technical concepts to diverse groups of people and users in various settings and by various means (verbal and written).
•     Must have service orientation with ability to lead teams, to organize, prioritize and delegate tasks while transferring knowledge and expertise.
•     Ability to work under pressure and on multiple tasks and projects concurrently.
•     Must have strong analytical and problem solving skills and be able to work effectively with a diverse team of information technology professionals.
•     Requires project management planning tools experience (e.g. Microsoft Project)

Closing Date: Monday, 29 July 2013
How to Apply.
http://unjobs.org/vacancies/1373925033539

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