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Programme Manager
Job Objective
- This role oversees planning, implementing, and executing individual projects and groups of related company projects in a coordinated manner to obtain benefits and control. The programme manager emphasizes the coordinating and prioritizing of resources across projects, managing links between the projects and the overall costs and risks of the program.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Drive and manage delivery of WIOCC project programs and individual projects
- Coordinating project team members, developing schedules and individual responsibilities
- Allocating project resources and managing virtual project team
- Maintain project timeframes, scope, control cost, schedule to ensure things stay on track and status reporting
- Organizing and managing all phases of the project to ensure on-time completion
- Identify concerns, issues, contractual challenges and escalate appropriately
- Holding regular team meetings with defined agendas and published minutes
- Developing a risk register with mitigation plans for each identified risk
- Creating and communicating roles and responsibilities matrix for project teams
- Developing and following a communication plan that defines information flow and project status reporting requirements
- Successfully manage the relationships with in-house stakeholders and third- party consultants
- Create, obtain approval, and manage project charters, plans, risk registers, budgets, lessons learnt
- Defining a quality plan for project management that is communicated and implemented
- Assist with creation of ad hoc reports as needed
- Adhere to all company policies and procedures
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent, Masters preferred) in a technical field or equivalent relevant experience
- 5+ year of proven delivery managing increasingly complex projects.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office tools.
- Project Management Certification.
Experience & Skills
- 5+ years of proven experience in Project Management
- Experience/certification in acknowledged project management methodologies is an asset, or other known project management techniques and procedures
- Knowledge and experience on ERP systems and/or ERP implementations is a plus
- Strong communication, mediation, and negotiation skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects and resources
- Ability to act as point of contact between project team, sponsors, and stakeholders
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- High degree of initiative, accuracy, efficiency, and attention to detail
- Ability to work effectively in a distributed team environment
- Ability to work effectively with all levels of management and staff
Attributes
- Client focused, relationship builder
- Integrity, honest with highest ethical standards
- Boundless, passionate, and flexible
- Personal excellence, accuracy, and attention to detail
- Collaborative, achieve results through teamwork and partnerships
Project Administrator
Job Objective
- This role is responsible for assisting with the planning, implementing, executing and closure of network projects within the Company.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Assist to manage WIOCC individual and groups of network projects as directed
- Assist to project manage client orders from feasibility, pre-sales solution design, sales order signature to handover, achieving high levels of client satisfaction
- Data entry and record updates
- Identify concerns, issues, contractual challenges and escalate appropriately
- Actively participate in and promote the project gate review process
- Logistics co-ordination with vendors, shipping agents, partners etc
- Deputise for the Project Manager & assist with creation of ad hoc reports as needed
- Successfully manage the relationships with in-house stakeholders, Shareholders and WIOCC clientele
- Actively use and ensure data integrity of NetSuite
Minimum Qualifications:
- National Senior Certificate or equivalent relevant experience
Experience & Skills:
- Prefers minimum of 1 year’s technical experience in the telecom industry, with at least 1 years in project management role or equivalent
- Effective project management ability including written and verbal communications skills evidenced by work history and accomplishments
- Excellent communications and soft skills, including ability to listen to and summarize and concisely gather, analyse and share key information with stakeholders
- Must use B/OSS tools, experience of Microsoft Office suite including MS Project
- Demonstrate ability to manage multiple priorities and solve problems in a fast-paced environment
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Attributes
- Team player, willing to learn and develop
- Client focused, confident, relationship builder
- Integrity, honest with high ethical standards, negotiating skills
- Boundless, passionate and flexible
- Personal excellence, accuracy and attention to detail
- Collaborative, achieve results through teamwork and partnerships
- Strong analytical skills and able to collate and interpret data from various sources
- Good English language communicator with a natural aptitude for dealing with people
- Excellent creative thinking and problem-solving skills
- Commercially aware, numerate & articulate
Project Manager
Job Objective
- This role oversees planning, implementing, and executing individual projects and groups of related company projects in a coordinated manner to obtain benefits and control.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Manage WIOCC individual and groups of network projects as directed
- Manage virtual project teams including members from Engineering, Operations, Legal, Procurement, Logistics and Finance
- Create, obtain approval and manage project charters, plans, risk registers, budgets, lessons learnt
- To project manage client orders from feasibility, pre-sales solution design, sales order signature to handover, achieving high levels of client satisfaction
- Identify concerns, issues, contractual challenges, identify mitigating measures and escalate appropriately
- Actively participate in and promote the project gate review process
- Management of deliveries with vendors, shipping agents, partners etc
- Deputise for the Programme Manager & assist with creation of ad hoc reports as needed
- Successfully manage the relationships with in-house stakeholders, Shareholders and WIOCC clientele
- Actively use and ensure data integrity of NetSuite
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent, Masters preferred) in a technical field or equivalent relevant experience
- PMP / PRINCE2 certification or equivalent (desirable)
- Knowledgeable in use of Microsoft Projects
Experience & Skills:
- Prefers minimum of 5 year’s technical experience in the telecom industry, with essentially at least 3 years in project management role or equivalent
- Experience in management of fibre projects
- Effective project management ability including written and verbal communications skills evidenced by work history and accomplishments
- Excellent communications and soft skills, including ability to listen to and summarize and concisely gather, analyse and share key information with stakeholders
- Must use B/OSS tools, experience of Microsoft Office suite including MS Project
- Demonstrate ability to manage multiple priorities and solve problems in a fast-paced environment
- Knowledge of technology used in WIOCC network including Subsea, OTN, DWDM, SDH and
- Data (Ethernet, IP/MPLS, OSPF, BGP) preferred
Attributes
- Team player, willing to learn and develop
- Client focused, confident, relationship builder
- Integrity, honest with high ethical standards, negotiating skills
- Boundless, passionate and flexible
- Personal excellence, accuracy and attention to detail
- Collaborative, achieve results through teamwork and partnerships
- Strong analytical skills and able to collate and interpret data from various sources
- Good English language communicator with a natural aptitude for dealing with people
- Excellent creative thinking and problem-solving skills
- Commercially aware, numerate & articulate
- Excellent network diagnostic skills.
HOW TO APPLY
Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply by submitting their updated CV including three referees. Deadline for the application is 25th July 2023. Applications should be sent to applications@wiocc.net indicating the job position in the subject line.