Senior Project Manager: Public Governance & Special Projects
OUTA
- Johannesburg, Gauteng
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Create project structures for stakeholders including timelines, project plans, tasks, team responsibilities and status reporting.
- Regularly update, review, and amend actions on OUTA's Project Management system (e.g. ProofHUB).
- Support in the delivery of consultancy and analysis for projects, implementing opportunities for simplification, efficiency, and enhancement to deliver business process improvements, stakeholder satisfaction, cost reduction and revenue growth.
- Develop reports and analytics to drive project improvements.
- Support testing of processes against agreed specifications, corporate standards and make recommendations for process/ procedural improvement.
- Delivery of projects (including all key milestones) on time, within budget and to agreed quality
- Responsible for the set-up and management of project governance, scope, risk and issues,
- Reporting progress, the identification of key risks and issues, and their escalation
- Responsible for removing barriers and risks through problem-solving, negotiation, open
- Excellent communicator of plans and information: strong skills in building the case for change,
- Be agile: Uses knowledge of best practice and project management to work effectively with peers
- Keep abreast of business and public needs to ensure project relevance.
- Establish and maintain a strong network of experts.
- Act as spokesperson on projects as and when needed.
- Be able to produce factual, concise, and well-written reports.
- Provide project specific research of a high quality.
- Identify relevant/ pertinent objectives when planning projects.
- Evaluate progress of project and objectives regularly
- Support, guide, and supervise the assigned support team.
- Understanding and management of team dynamics and encouraging good relationships
- Understanding and management of good relationships with the OUTA operations team