Group Head of MIS Projects at Stratostaff

• The Group Head of MIS Projects will provide leadership to the team for the successful development of the project’s procedures of initiation, planning, execution, regulation and closure as well as the guidance of the project management teams’ operations toward achieving all the agreed upon goals within the set scope, time quality and budget standards.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create partnerships with internal teams together with the Project Manager to define the project scope, resource requirements and cost estimates and keep all stakeholders informed of any changes in timing, financial impact and issues that may arise.
• Review the Project Manager’s progress report to analyze the areas that could potentially throw delivery off track, log risks, and create a mitigation plan against the project risks.
• Manage and deliver multiple work streams for projects to agreed scope, timing, budget and quality, whilst taking full ownership of the end-to-end process and influencing properly concerning scope creep or unrealistic resourcing
• Manage and foster effective relationships with stakeholders through clear and consistent communication and collaboration.
• Train project teams based on the lessons learned from each project to provide a feedback loop to improve the effectiveness and speed of future projects.
• Provide reports on outcomes, share insights and iterative solutions.
• Keep on top of projects, know their status (key milestones, budgets, resourcing etc.) and be the hub of communication for progress by proactively providing relevant and regular feedback to all stakeholders.
• Collaborate with multiple co-located teams across the business to consistently achieve high levels of project quality and speed of delivery.
• Keep records of all required sign-offs and create and maintain critical project documentation
• Develop test cases for multiple projects of varying sizes with the Project Manager 
• Perform tests on various systems and applications together with the project Manager and ensure project teams have tested applications adequately. 
• Validate that user expectations are achieved during the testing process.
• Research and recommend new project techniques and tools for Management 
• Provide regular reports to the Group Head of MIS
• Manage the performance of the team for the achievement of the Department’s set goals.
• Provide first line of support when project issues arise. 

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• BSc. Business Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Technology, IT project management or related fields.
• Minimum of two years’ experience in managing end-to-end software projects
• Project Management Software knowledge
• Proficiency in MS packages
• Able to conduct System Analysis and Design
• Experience documenting system functional requirements and designing system test cases.
• Programming and database management knowledge is an added advantage

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Project Management
• Leadership and People Management
• Planning and Organization
• Stakeholder management
• Analytical thinking