Project Assurance Lead

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Indipath Recruitment Full time

Provide input into the holistic Operational execution strategy and plan, with a focus on Delivery Assurance and Project Management effectiveness
- Design and implement the Project and Delivery Assurance framework, ensuring incremental maturity improvement
- Define Delivery and Assurance function goals and contributions and lead the PMO effort and measurements across all projects
- Lead the Delivery Assurance efforts and measurements, providing an end-to-end view of project performance and the ongoing client experience (e.g., milestones met/missed, client key stakeholder engaged/mapped, schedule on track, stage plans approved)
- Develop a view of delivery quality, reporting this to relevant stakeholders
- In the event of project underperformance / misalignment with business goals, define and lead (through others) necessary actions to remediate
- Maintain overall responsibility for systems, processes and practices, tools, material and administration relevant to Project and Delivery Assurance function, and continuously work to improve these
- Design and implement a robust way-of-working to monitor the projects in-flight against baselines (project and commercial models)
- Monitor, track and report on performance, risks and compliance to internal stakeholders
- Develop, maintain and monitor the key assurance processes incl. Risk Management, Quality Assurance, Stakeholder Management, Client Service levels and project/portfolio performance (Scope, Schedule, Budget)
- Provide assurance that key projects and portfolios meet the clients specified benefit realisation goals
- Provide project delivery input in pre-project execution opportunities
- Ensure that appropriate risk and assurance training and guidelines are in place
- Provide guidance and career support to PMO team members.

**Skills & Qualifications**
- 8-10 years consulting experience in a project delivery environment
- Matric and relevant tertiary education (e.g., BCom Information Systems / Informatics, BSc Eng, BEng, etc.)
- Relevant Programme Certifications (incl. PMBOK / PRINCE2 / Agile methodologies / PMPGP, etc.) is preferred
- Leadership of skilled delivery teams
- Executive level stakeholder management
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong report writing, positioning capabilities and negotiation skills
- Ability to convey a technical solution to senior management in a clear and concise manner
- Strategic thinker with proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
- A team player who is hardworking and self-motivated
- Ability to effectively plan and prioritize workloads, and to measure and report on current progress



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