Project Manager II at World Vision Kenya

Relationship Management

• Develops and maintains productive working relationships with business owners, project sponsors, vendors and key clients.

Project Planning

• Develops, and continually updates, project plans and schedules.  Develops product breakdown structures. 
• Identifies project dependencies prior to the start of the project. Works with the Business Analysts and the client to define/refine the project scope. 
• Facilitates the gathering of information required to estimate project cost, resources, time and deliverables.  Prepares all project management baseline products.

Conflicts/Problem Management

• Negotiates conflicts and resolves issues that arise.  Acts as a mediator between stakeholders and team members. Resolves any issues and solves problems throughout the project life cycle.

Resource Management

• Determines staffing requirements and forms project teams. Develops budget requests for resources.
• Works with resource managers in order to effectively align resources across projects.
• Provides work direction and leadership to assigned projects, including scheduling, assignment of work and review of project efforts.

Procurement Planning

• Assists with identifying which resources need to be procured outside the organization.  Describes technical or other issues that need to be considered and assists in the development of Statement of Work (SOWs).

Vendor Performance

• Determines if external consultants or contractors will be required to complete project plan.
• Recruits and manages appropriate staffing resources. Provides advice and counsel to the vendor relationship decision-making and contract development processes.
• Evaluates service provider performance. Approves invoices for payment. Provides an issue escalation path and resolves vendor performance disputes.

Risk Management

• Identifies the elements of risk in a project. 
• Analyzes and prioritizes project risks and assesses its potential impact to the client.
• Develops and maintains risk plans, processes and systems in order to mitigate risk. Creates action plan for risks that occur and follows through on plan. Maintains issue list, proactively escalating issues to project and departmental leadership to mitigate risk. Recommends and takes action to direct analysis and solution of problems.

Budget

• Estimates costs associated with a project including physical, financial and human capital costs. 
• Develops a detailed cost baseline from cost estimations.  Refines project cost estimates and confirms funding sources. Monitors and controls the actual cost of a project versus the budget. 
• Reviews bills and evaluates factors that may potentially cause cost changes.  Conducts in-depth root cause analysis of project budget discrepancies.

Standards, Policies, and Procedures

• Utilizes established project standards, procedures. Contributes to the development of new quality metrics.
• Compliance to established policies, procedures and standards.
• Identification of quality metrics.

Communications

• Develops a communication plan to convey project scope, goals, milestones, budget, risk, status, change requests and critical issues to the client and project team.
• Asesses the effectiveness of the interaction and communication with the client and project team.

Coaching/Mentoring

• Coaches or mentors less experienced personnel.
• Transfer of knowledge to team members.

Job Requirements:

• Requires 5–7 years of IT work experience, including 2 or more years managing IT Projects projects. Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally, as necessary
• Effective in written and verbal communication in English.

Preferred Skills

• PMP Certification, Prince 2 Certification, ITIL 4 Certification, AGILE Certification e.g Professional Scrum Master, Disciplined Agile Certification etc..
• Project Manager of Global or Regional Technology and Digital Solution projects