Project Manager (Contract - 3 months), Group

Principal Accountabilities: 

• Lead projects from requirements definition through deployment, identifying schedules, scopes, budget estimations, and project implementation plans, including risk mitigation.
• To coordinate internal and external resources, ensuring projects remain within scope, schedule, and defined budgets, in collaboration with project staff from various functional departments.
• Analyse project progress and, when necessary, adapt scope, timelines, and costs to ensure that project team adheres to project requirements.
• Establish and maintain relationships with appropriate client and business stakeholders, providing day-to-day contact on project status and changes.
• Establish and maintain processes to manage scope over the project lifecycle, assessing and managing risk within, and across, multiple projects.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with outside resources.
• Monitor and assign resources appropriately to streamline project efficiency and maximise deliverable outputs.
• Report project outcomes and/or risks to the appropriate management channels as needed, escalating issues as necessary based on project work plans.
• To record all time on the Company’s time recording system and ensure narrative is clear. 
• Such other duties as the management may at times reasonably require. This job description is a guide to the principal, current duties of the job.
• Ensure appropriate project documentation is produced and maintained (e.g. business cases, RAID logs)
• Provide regular, accurate and timely project status reporting to the PMO Lead and Management team
  
  

Required Skills & Qualifications: 

• Proven project management experience in IT
• Professional certification such as Prince2 or MSP, PMP or Agile practices.
• Experience in delivering applications involving system integrations.
• Experience managing project budgets.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience using Smartsheet beneficial

Preferred Skills & Certifications: 

• Experience in developing platforms for internal processes.
• Experience in coaching junior project team members.
• Good presentation skills
• Experience undertaking Change Management activities.