Manager, ICT Projects

Purpose of the job

Manage the team responsible for ICT strategic projects.

Duties and responsibilities

• Monitors build progress, overseeing finance and ensuring overall ICT projects quality.
• Establishes the ICT projects plan baseline, define project scope, secure the necessary resources, and plans and monitor all activities.
• Managing project managers and enabling them to supervise and manage their own tasks.
• Ensures alignment between clients, stakeholders, and project managers to maintain project progress.
• Manages customer relationship by building confidence, trust and ensure project progress arranging meetings and customer events.
• Devising cost-effective plans to enable effective project completion.
• Managing risks to avoid delays or reputational damage.
• Ensuring permits and legal papers are secured ahead of the project and during the project implementation.
• Manages external partnerships and contracts with different agencies for program delivery when needed.
• Drive project execution, track project activities, monitor deadlines and milestones, handle changes, conflicts, and critical issues.
• Handles project financials ensuring financial monitoring.
• Participate in contract preparation and to pre-sales meetings.
• Devise evaluation strategies to monitor project performance and determine the need for improvements.
• Discover ways to enhance efficiency and productivity of procedures and people.
• Apply change, risk and resource management principles when needed.
• Ensure program operations and activities adhere to legal guidelines and internal policies.
• Keeps top management informed with detailed and accurate reports or presentations.

Job specification

Education

• ICT University graduate     

Experience

• Min 5 years of work experience including 2 years in a similar position.

Skills and abilities

• Can foster a sense of team spirit within different departments.
• Communicates well and relays information in a timely manner.
• Has good budgeting skills and can reduce costs without making adjustments that would affect quality.
• Knows what is required for a particular project to be completed and has realistic expectations as far as meeting deadlines go.
• Possesses good math skills and can make accurate calculations quickly and easily.
• Has good leadership and supervisory skills.
• Ability to work under tight scheduling.