Vacancy title:
IT Projects Officer

Jobs at:
Safaricom

Deadline of this Job:
25th November 2018

Duty Station:
Nairobi, Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: 1st November 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Company

JOB DETAILS:

We are pleased to announce the following vacancy within the Technology Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.

Description
Reporting to the Senior Manager- Business Engagement (Financial Services, Customer Experience, & IT) the position holder will be responsible for planning, tracking and reporting on IT resources, projects and performance.

Responsibilities

•  Develop and maintain the resource management plan by identifying resource requirements and obtaining commitments from internal, external, and procured sources to complete all project activities.
  
•  Maintain project time estimates in order to determine and define project baseline, schedule.
  
•  Develop a formal and comprehensive resourcing dashboard showing project progress against resource utilization.
  
•  Manage project progress by obtaining data from various sources as project managers, business units, project data repositories, and delivery & engagement managers.
  
•  Onboarding and release of project resources by following appropriate organizational procedures in order to optimize resource utilization.
  
•  Collaborate with the project teams and management to report on projects, performance and resources utilization with periodic reports
  
•  Manage any relevant team and departmental reporting requirements on operations, planning and products delivery.
  
•  Participate in performance management of human resources and evaluation to delivery objectives
  
•  Self-Driven individual with proactivity in responsible execution.
  

Qualifications

•  Bachelor in Management, Computer Science, IT or Project Management.
  
•  Certificate in project planning/project management expertise or PRINCE 2 or PMP will be an added advantage.
  
•  3 years’ experience as an IT analyst and or project management in a busy IT environment
  
•  Planning and organization – Perfectionist.
  
•  Experience as a projects team member in a large project preferably an IT project.
  
•  A good understanding of managing projects in a changing business environment.
  
• Experience in providing administrative and project support