Senior Project Manager - Johannesburg, South Africa - Boardroom Appointments

Boardroom Appointments
Boardroom Appointments
Verified Company
Johannesburg, South Africa

3 weeks ago

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Key role and responsibilities:


  • Manage project initiation by developing and ensuring the project charter approval, identify and engage stakeholders.
  • Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including plans, schedules, reports, and meeting minutes.
  • Ensure that all project documentation is accurate and uptodate in the PMO Toolset as well as project folders.
  • Identifying, managing, and communicating changes (risks, issues, actions and decisions) that may affect the project
  • Able to problem solve and conflict manage situations that may arise on the project
  • Managing project team members by delegating tasks and setting expectations for performance
  • Monitoring resource allocation, timelines, and other key metrics to ensure project milestones are met
  • Facilitating meetings with stakeholders to ensure effective communication about projects
  • Monitoring and controlling work input and scope to ensure that all projects remain on track and in control
  • Ensuring the projects and activities are executed in the most efficient and agile way based on agreed company methodologies, tools, and processes
  • Planning and managing program stakeholders, scope, activities, conflict resolution, and approach in and across a highly matrixed global organization through direct interaction and communication, regular status reports and personally managing escalations, when necessary
  • Report on financial progress on the project, control variances and ensure approvals
  • Following the change methodology, participate, facilitate, drive the deliverables and manage feedback with the senior leadership on the project to ensure successful adoption.

Change Management

  • Leverage a change management methodology, process and tools to create a strategy to support adoption of the changes required by a project or initiative.
  • Support communication efforts
  • Enable the design, development, delivery and management of key communications.
  • Assess the change impact and stakeholder analysis
  • Conduct impact analyses, assess change readiness, and identify key stakeholders.
  • Support training efforts
  • Provide input, document requirements, and support the design and delivery of training programs.

Knowledge, skills and attributes:


  • Proficiency in project management methodology, tools, and templates (includes project planning, schedule development, scope management and cost management)
  • Formidable team working skills across matrixed client, supplier, and geographically dispersed virtual teams
  • Instrumental in the use of IT methodologies, processes, and standards for project management
  • PMP or similar project management certification
    is a must have
  • Proficient in MS project and\other scheduling tools
  • Experienced in delivery that includes the use of external supplier and offshore resources
  • Excellent communication skills and presenting to senior leadership up to Director and C-Suite
  • More than 5yrs experience in project governance and working with a PMO environment
  • Experience in participating or driving change management as part of the project
  • Communicating with Senior stakeholders (Steercoms, Status reporting, Weekly meetings)
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