Junior Project Manager at Tezza Business Solutions Ltd

Short Description

• In this position, you will be responsible for organizing our clients’ technical projects and ensuring that all members of the operating team work efficiently.
• You should have an aptitude for thinking outside the box and enjoy critical thinking, organization, and overall team management.
• Experience within the IT sector will be hugely beneficial.

Key Responsibilities

• Review and provide feedback on all project documentations including Business Requirements Documents, System Requirements Specification documents and Functional Design documents
• Review the project plan and Plan activities for how application under test will be verified and validated
• Assist in updating Requirements Traceability Matrix that ties activities back to project documentations
• Assess and confirm that the pre-requisites for initiating the project activities. This would entail the review of; the objectives for the project & the nature of the project/product
• After project approval, assist the sponsor to create a detailed project plan and update the project cost estimate
• Schedule the project based on targets and resource availability;
• Management of the project plan (milestones, activities, key deliverables);
• Confirm adherence to best practice to project management best practice.
• Monitor progress and prepare reports for discussion with Team Leader.
• Guide project teams to deliver projects to agreed time and quality
• Maintains organization's effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies.
• Directs technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects.
• Completes projects by coordinating resources and timetables with user departments.
• Verifies application results by conducting system audits of technologies implemented.
• Preserves assets by implementing disaster recovery and back-up procedures and information security and control structures.
• Recommends information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements.
• Accomplishes financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analysing variances; initiating corrective action.
• Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.

Desired Skills & Experience

• 1+ years of experience within a project management role
• Experience working in an IT shop
• Proven ability to manage complex and multiple projects with tight and conflicting deadlines - fast paced, dynamic work environment.
• Sound working knowledge of technologies and industry trends.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to successfully engender a participative process across a culturally diverse group of internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong initiative, forward thinking and creative problem-solving skills with the ability to create or stimulate customer-focused strategies.
• Strong level PC/software skills, particularly in MS Office suite and project/process design and administration tools (e.g. Visio, MS Project).
• Experience using Jira and Agile methodology.