Senior Project Manager, Westlands, Nairobi at BURN

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Synchronizing all project-related reports from start, including planning, resource management, project execution, tracking, and maintenance to a formalized project closure.
• Develop and maintain summary level schedule reports: Gantt, milestone charts, and other tools used to support critical path analysis, near-term tasks work, priority-based resource allocations, performance variances, and to support cost-schedule integration
• Defines all the project plan documents, including scope, schedules, financials, and risk management plans. 
• Integrate multiple schedules into a master project schedule, baseline, and status, and perform measurement baseline.
• Managing project teams during a project’s lifespan by tracking their responsibilities, tasks, and progress.
• Communicating with stakeholders, including team members and clients.
• Analyzing projects, identifying risks, and forming risk mitigation strategies.
• Monthly project reports
• Ensures that the project is formally closed out and is properly documented as contractually agreed. 
• Assist and coordinate with the team in discussing project development, costing, benefits, adjusting timing, and reducing risks impact.
• Coordinate with other managers to manage the project staff and manage resource allocation. 

Skills and Experience

• A bachelor’s degree in Construction management/project management or a related field. 
• At least five years of experience in project management
• MUST have PMI or PMP
• Project management CAPM, PRINCE2 foundation certification is a great plus. 
• Prior experience with office and project management tools (MS Project/Smartsheet).
• Prior experience in Building Information Modeling (BIM).
• Detail oriented
• Problem solver
• Risk averse 
• Excellent communication skills
• Comfortable with Excel
• Action-oriented.
• Honest