Career Opportunities at Telkom Kenya

Role Purpose: 

This person will oversee the conceptualisation, planning, development and implementation of Enterprise client’s projects.The person will also understand Telkom Kenya’s key customers' build plans, manage material flow, and manage quality delivery of customer expectations from ICT projects.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Carry out project planning for assigned projects with a clearly documented plan involving all relevant stakeholders.
• Carry out E2E project management for assigned customer projects as per project plan.
• Implement and ensure adherence to project methodology and processes as adopted by Telkom Kenya in the management and execution of customer projects.
• Manage the relationships with the customers during the implementations phase, until hand-over phase.
• Ensure high standards in the quality of project management within the organization and continuous improvement on project processes.
• Provide individual project tracking, consolidated progress reports, and provide required management reports.
• Identify project risks and/or issues and implement necessary action plans to manage them so as to avoid potential delays and scope creep.
• Follow up on the delivered products and solutions on an agreed regular basis with the customer to keep informed about the life cycle of the implemented customer solution.
• Manage the project budget, monitoring the expenditures and costs against delivered and realized milestones as the project progresses.
• Ensure that there is efficient allocation of common resources and skills within the assigned project portfolio.
• Facilitate the appointment of individuals to the specific projects tasks for specific project results delivery
• Managing both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects
• Ensure project closure through a clear sign-off, billing initiation and handover to the post implementation teams.

Academic/ Professional Qualifications

• A minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/ Engineering/ Telecommunications. PMP/ Prince 2 Certification in project management is a requirement.
• 2-5 years’ work experience in a project management environment with a track record in delivering ICT solutions within schedule, budget and quality.

Professional Skills:

• Displays a bias for decisiveness by meeting the most aggressive timelines for delivering  high quality proposals
• Showing concerns for all aspects of the job, no matter how small. Checking processes and tasks accurately.
• Be able to own the whole project management process and be comfortable holding people to account.
• Be a natural communicator with excellent written and oral presentation skills.
• Makes active attempts to influence events to achieve goals: self-starting rather than acting passively.

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Role Purpose: 

He/ She will provide leadership to a team of project managers charged with the end-to-end delivery of Enterprise solutions. Oversee the conceptualization, planning, development and implementation of assigned Enterprise client’s projects. He/ She will be the project management champion in the projects team, providing coaching and mentorship to the team as a senior projects expert. He/ She will also understand Telkom Kenya’s key customers' build plans, manage material flow, and manage quality delivery of customer expectations from ICT projects.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• The person will be the project management champion in the projects team, providing coaching and mentorship to the other team members as a senior projects expert.
• Carry out project planning for assigned projects with a clearly documented plan involving all relevant stakeholders.
• Carry out E2E project management for assigned customer projects as per project plan.
• Implement and ensure adherence to project methodology and processes as adopted by Telkom Kenya in the management and execution of customer projects.
• Manage the relationships with the customers during the implementations phase, until hand-over phase.
• Ensure high standards in the quality of project management within the organization and continuous improvement on project processes.
• Identify project risks and/or issues and implement necessary action plans to manage them so as to avoid potential delays and scope creep.
• Follow up on the delivered products and solutions on an agreed regular basis with the customer to keep informed about the life cycle of the implemented customer solution.
• Manage the project budget, monitoring the expenditures and costs against delivered and realised milestones as the project progresses.
• Facilitate the appointment of individuals to the specific projects tasks for specific project results delivery
• Ensure project closure through a clear sign-off, billing initiation and handover to the post implementation teams.

Academic/ Professional Qualifications

• A minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/ Engineering/ Telecommunications. PMP/ Prince 2 Certification in project management is a requirement.
• 5 years’ minimum work experience in a project management environment with a track record in delivering ICT solutions within schedule, budget and quality.

Professional Skills:

• Displays a bias for decisiveness by meeting the most aggressive timelines for delivering  high quality proposals
• Showing concerns for all aspects of the job, no matter how small. Checking processes and tasks accurately.
• Be able to own the whole project management process and be comfortable holding people to account.
• Be a natural communicator with excellent written and oral presentation skills.
• Makes active attempts to influence events to achieve goals: self-starting rather than acting passively.