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Position: Project Executive
Department: IT, DMZ, Xerox
Reports To: Business Unit Heads
Nature and Scope of the position
The role of the Project Manager is to plan, execute, and finalize projects according to strict deadlines and within budget. This includes acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members and third-party contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects according to plan. The Project Manager will also define the project’s objectives and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle.
Duties
- Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.
- Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
- Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
- Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
- Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
- Where required, negotiate with other department managers for the acquisition of required personnel from within the company.
- Set and continually manage project expectations with team members.
- Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
- Track project milestones and deliverables.
- Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
- Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of the project.
- Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
- To undertake other duties as assigned.
Job Specification
- Degree in Computer Science/IT
- PRICE II or PMP certification
Experience
- 1- 3 YEARS EXPERIENCE working on IT projects
- Work Related Skills
- Good organizational skills
- Aggressive and Result Oriented
- Able to meet set target on a monthly basis
- Able to meet deadlines
- Good leadership qualities
Personal Attributes
- Ability to work under pressure
- Trustworthy
- Team player
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong customer relation skills
Complexity and difficulty of the work
- A demanding job that requires high level of accuracy and integrity.
- Successful performance standards
- Monitoring and ensuring the achievement of projects on time and under/within budget
- Reports on proposals and bids done on weekly basis to the Managing Director
- Needs to plan ahead thus be pro – active
- High level of accuracy
- High level of confidentiality
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