IT Projects Officer at Viscar Industrial Capacity

Our client, a Leading Telecommunications Firm with operations in Africa, seeks to recruit talented, dynamic and result-oriented professionals to fill the above position.

Purpose of the Job

The position holder will be responsible for planning, tracking and reporting on IT resources, projects and performance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the resource management plan by identifying resource requirements and obtaining commitments from internal, external, and procured sources to complete all project activities.
• Maintain project time estimates in order to determine and define project baseline, schedule.
• Develop a formal and comprehensive resourcing dashboard showing project progress against resource utilization.
• Manage project progress by obtaining data from various sources as project managers, business units, project data repositories, and delivery & engagement managers.
• Onboarding and release of project resources by following appropriate organizational procedures in order to optimize resource utilization.
• Collaborate with the project teams and management to report on projects, performance and resources utilization with periodic reports
• Manage any relevant team and departmental reporting requirements on operations, planning and products delivery.
• Participate in performance management of human resources and evaluation to delivery objectives

Qualifications

• Bachelor in Management, Computer Science, IT or Project Management.
• Certificate in project planning/project management expertise or PRINCE 2 or PMP will be an added advantage.
• 3 years’ experience as an IT analyst and or project management in a busy IT environment

Skills and Knowledge

• Good Planner
• Experience as a projects team member in a large project preferably an IT project.
• A good understanding of managing projects in a changing business environment.
• Experience in providing administrative and project support.
• Self-driven individual