Project Management Office Specialist

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With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

The role will provide PMO and Project governance support for the portfolio ensuring that best project management practices are met and projects within the portfolio are run in adherence to the change risk policy. The role will bring project governance expertise, ensuring that project methodology is understood, embedded and executed on correctly.

The role will from time to time also provide project management services on small to medium size project as need arises

Job Description

PMO and Project Governance

• Support the implementation of PMO framework into the portfolio
• Provide support to project managers in completing project functions - helping with the planning, scheduling, delivery, and closing of projects.
• Adhere to accurate utilisation of mandated tools for portfolio governance
• Maintain a desired level of quality and ensure adherence to governance risk audit requirements
• At every stage gate, ensure that all required deliverables have been completed, quality reviewed, Signed off and loaded on the governance tools. Documents iterations to be kept up to date through the life of the project.
• Perform regular reviews to ensure and improve data accuracy and consistency across multiple tools to enable consistent and accurate reporting
• Perform regular reviews to resolve governance exceptions. Work with Project and Programme Managers to resolve within SLA
• Interface with Business Unit Central PMO as well as Group PMO as required to ensure embedment of tools, processes and guidelines within the portfolio. Ensure that the processes are clear and optimised to help projects to focus on right thing
• Providing guidance and training to project team as required on new or enhancements to tools, methods and templates
• Produce high quality reports as input to higher governance committees : gathering and presenting information about the health of the projects and provide necessary insights.
• Be the voice of Portfolio PMO - Communicate clearly the needs and requirements of the PMO to Project / Programme Managers.

Project Delivery:

• Planning and coordinating the project or workstreams in Programmes. Managing daily tasks to ensure that they are completed in time, on budget and to the right quality.
• Monitors the progression of a project at every stage and ensure that the objectives of a project are met
• Provide input into project budgets and monitor project spend throughout the life of the project
• Monitor risk and issues that may arise in the project. Handle and/or escalate timely where additional support is required.
• Maintain open and effective communication with all the project stakeholders to ensure alignment and expectations management
• Ensure appropriate and timely flow of communication amongst team members to ensure constant alignment on scope and objectives
• Provide input in to project resource requirements
• Allocating and managing project resources efficiently, ensuring that each stage of the project is sufficiently resourced to avoid unnecessary delays due to resource constraints

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised