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METROPOLITAN TRADING COMPANY (MTC)
 
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Braampark
REFS/005928
Project Manager
Directorate: Network Operations Centre
Package: Market Related
 
 
Requirements: • Prince 2 / PMP Certification / Agile Project Management / Bachelor’s Degree with Project Management • 5 years’ relevant experience. Experience successfully managing various projects, experience in IT environment will be an advantage. • Must be able to work under pressure. • Systematic workflow • Well-tempered and be able to communicate well at all levels • Computer literate • Outstanding grasp of information technology concepts and processes
 
Duties: • Engage in consultation process with both employees, management and external stakeholders as required, exhibiting an understanding of essential risk considerations. • Persuade key stakeholders in engaging in risk discussions, achieving a win-win solution as far as possible. • Proactively identify and mitigate risks timely and effectively • Manage development and execution of communication plan to ensure effective and timely communication between the various stakeholders (e.g. senior management, line managers and external parties). 
• Manage the production of periodic management reports (e.g. monthly reports, programme milestones). • Serve as a central point of contact between the MTC and various internal and external stakeholders. • Ensure that project status, issues and successes are communicated to project team, stakeholders, sponsors, steering committee and all levels of management and documented appropriately. • Facilitate the definition of project missions, goals, tasks, and resource requirements; resolve or assist in the resolution of conflicts within and between projects or functional areas; develop methods to monitor project or area progress; and provide corrective supervision if necessary. • Manage the programme scope, define deliverables, obtain consensus and manage stakeholder expectations. • Ensure programme outcomes are accepted; measurement and analysis of stakeholder perceptions is performed facilitate validation of business benefit assessment. • Understand who the client is and what the client's needs are; provides realistic expectations; establishes specific customer satisfaction standards and actively monitors client satisfaction.
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Notes
People with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
 
Enquiries: HR Department (011) 032 0250
 
Number of Posts: 1
 
Closing Date: 2020/08/15
 
Criteria Questions
1. Do you have a Prince 2/ PMP Certification/ Agile Project Management or a Bachelor’s Degree with Project Management?
2. Do you have 5 years’ relevant experience in managing various projects in an IT or Telecommunications environment?
3. Have you ever defined project/s or programme scope, defined deliverables, obtain consensus, managed stakeholder expectations, delivered projects and did validation of business benefit assessment?
4. Are you able to manage human and financial resources on projects?
                          
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the large number of applications we envisage receiving, applications will not be acknowledged, If you do not receive any response within 3 months, please accept that your application was not successful.

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