Project Manager
3 months ago
**Advert reference**: uj_001708
- **Advert status**: Online**Position Summary**
**Industry**:Education & Training
**Job category**:Education and Training
**Campus**:Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
**Contract**:Permanent
**Remuneration**:Market Related
**EE position**:EE
**Level**:Skilled
**Introduction**
The University of Johannesburg (UJ) is a vibrant and cosmopolitan university, anchored in Africa and driven by a powerful strategy focused on attaining global excellence and stature (GES). With an emphasis on independent thinking, sustainable development, and strategic partnerships, UJ is an international university of choice. The University is guided by the Vice-Chancellor’s vision of “Positioning UJ in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) for societal impact in the context of the changing social, political, and economic fortunes of Africa”.
**Job description**
**Information and Communications Systems: IT Project Manager**
**Responsibilities**:
- Responsible for running day-to-day management of projects through-out project phases ensuring that contractual requirements and client expectation are met according to SLA’s
- Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
- Develop full-scale End to End project documentation
- Ensures that projects produce required products/service to the required standards of quality within the specified time constraints and cost.
- Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members to support Project Management mandate,
- Formulate Project Management Policies and practices to ensure alignment and realisation of the ICT strategic vision.
- Ensure functioning governance structures for each project undertaken
- To manage and give direction to the team processes.
- Prepare budgets and manage costs of projects.
- Produce accurate and consistent status / progress reports as well as presentation for progress meetings
- Ensure that the right resources are allocated to the project tasks
- Facilitate team and external communication with Proactive engagement and escalation
- Use best practices and methods to estimate resources needed to achieve project goals
- Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders
- Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team early
- Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path
- Use appropriate tools (MS Project and others) to plan and schedule project timelines and milestones
- Conduct post-delivery reviews and manage generated knowledge
- Develop and deliver timely progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations
- Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans
- Mitigate risks for every project
**Minimum requirements**
- Relevant IT related Bachelor’s Degree (NQF 7)
- Project Management certification (Prince 2, PMI, etc.)
**Experience and Knowledge**:
- Project Management experience including tracking and planning projects (5 - 8 Years).
- Working with business stakeholders within a cross functional matrix environment (5 Years).
- Experience in managing senior stakeholders, 3rd party suppliers/partners and internal diverse teams.
- Demonstrated experience in the implementation of systems or data related projects.
- 1 Year of previous experience with gathering requirements from clients to business and documentation.
- Experience in best practices within and outside to established benchmark data and use continuous process improvement disciplines to achieve results.
- Experience in successfully leading projects to on-time, on-schedule and within budget close
**Competencies and Behavioural Attributes**:
- Proven ability to demonstrate a drive for results and accountability of business needs
- Ability to work in an ambiguous environment and collaborate across multiple areas in order to achieve a common business objective
- Interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, facilitate and enhance performance within a cross-functional environment
- Ability to influence and gain buy-in from executive sponsors, team members, stakeholders and peers
- Flexible with proven ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problemsolving capabilities
- Communicate clearly and effectively with all stakeholders
- Analyse problems and issues related to systems
- Maintain current collaborative systems
- Adept at conducting research into project-related issues and products
- Demonstrate decisiveness in resolving business problems, making decisions and identifying priorities
- Plan and assign project tasks and resources
- Accurately document processes and procedures
- Accurately report and document project progress
- Assess situations and draw appropriate conclusions
- Ability to coach, mentor, supervise and motivate team
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