Professional, IT Projects

JOB DESCRIPTION

As Part Of Our Team You Will:

• Execute, liaise, and finalize IT projects related to applications, end-user computing, and infrastructure, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and within budget. 
• Create detailed project plans, timelines, and schedules, outlining tasks, milestones, deliverables, and resource requirements for each IT project. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, operations, and external vendors, to ensure effective project execution and alignment with business objectives. 
• Continuously track, evaluate project progress, performance, and key metrics, identifying and addressing any issues or risks that may impact project outcomes. 
• Handle project budgets, resource allocation, and expenditures, ensuring efficient use of resources and adherence to financial constraints. 
• Implement, sustain quality assurance processes and standards, ensuring all project deliverables meet organizational and regulatory requirements. 
• Create, provide regular project status updates, reports, and presentations to team members, highlighting key achievements, challenges, and recommendations. 
• Sustain clear and effective communication with project team members, ensuring their needs and expectations are understood and addressed throughout the project lifecycle. 
• Evaluate opportunities for process improvements and standard methodologies in IT project management, implement changes to enhance project efficiency and effectiveness. 

Your Training, Skills and Experience Checklist:

Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations): 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or related field. 

Additional Knowledge:

• Project Management (PMI) certification is preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant Technology/ Digital Project Management experience. 
• Mining, Construction, Utilities or other heavy industry experience is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of financial planning, purchasing, and vendor management. 

Problem Solving Ability:

• Completes concrete procedural tasks.
• Follows procedural steps to complete work.
• Uses practical judgment to overcome problems, or requests assistance.
• Sees alternatives based on trial & error.
• Improves working methods using day-to-day experiences, procedures, observations of pattern of events, and trial and error.

Technical Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, previous leadership, management and supervisory experience and the ability to achieve results through others.
• Technology requirement gathering and solution design.
• Must have ability to effectively utilize Microsoft Office suite of applications and Smartsheet.
• Ability to drive and possess Ghanaian Driver’s License.

Social Process Skills:  

• Self-awareness: Understands own behaviours and is aware of the impact on others and adapts their own behaviour where necessary in order to get a productive outcome for the wider team. 
• Team process: Able to be an effective team member by listening, clarifying tasks, receiving and providing feedback, able to be an effective team leader by establishing and maintaining a positive and productive work environment through listening, dealing with different points of view, giving and receiving feedback. 
• Collaboration: Builds positive working relationships with a diverse range of people across disciplines. 

Your work environment:

• The position is located at our Accra Regional Hub. 
• The incumbent would be required to travel to other local domestic sites as required.