Senior PMO Manager (Telecom)
Networkers International
Kabul, Afghanistan
Ref: HP977-803 		Networkers International

The Role


The Role

One of my clients, a leading Telco company in Afghanistan, is looking for a Senior PMO Manager to work a long term contract.

Basic Salary: $55000 / Year (Tax-Free)
Benefits: Accommodation, Transport, Class-1 Security, Medical & Life Insurance, 4 Return Flights, Food, Mobile, Annual Bonus, Termination Bonus, etc.

Senior Manager PMO

General Purpose
To be responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments and goals.
The role of the Senior Project Manager is to plan, execute, and finalize projects according to strict deadlines and within budget. This includes acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members and third-party contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects according to plan. The Project Manager will also define the project?s objectives and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle.
Main Job Tasks and Responsibilities
The Senior Project Manager has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis (on behalf of the
client, project board or other designated body).

- lead the planning and implementation of project
- facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables
- define project tasks and resource requirements
- develop full scale project plans
- assemble and coordinate project staff
- effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion
- liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
- manage project budget
- manage project resource allocation
- plan and schedule project timelines
- track project deliverables using appropriate tools
- provide direction and support to project team
- quality assurance
- identify, manage and mitigate risks
- manage changes in project scope
- constantly monitor and report on progress of the project to all stakeholders
- coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
- present reports defining project progress, problems and solutions
- implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs
- project evaluations and assessment of results

Detailed Job Description

1. Planning and problem-solving tasks

? The Senior Project Manager is responsible for planning the project in order to accomplish its goals or produce the products required within constraints such as time, cost and agreed quality standards.
? Alternatively, a Senior Project Manager might inherit a detailed project plan from sources such as a contract, a business plan, an organization or a funding body.
? The Senior Project Manager must continuously monitor progress in terms of the status of the plan and the budget and report back to the board, senior management, the client, or the funding organisation via weekly or other progress reporting and by organising and managing status meetings and board meetings.
? The Senior Project Manager must anticipate and catch deviations from a plan or schedule early and keep all participants and stakeholders informed.
? The Senior Project Manager should identify, log, analyse and manage potential and actual issues and risks, taking corrective action by tackling day-to-day issues head on and reviewing how more serious issues and risks might impact on scope, schedule, quality and cost.
? The Senior Project Manager should identify where and when management of issues and risks or accommodating altered requirements will involve extra time or extra resources and where efficiencies can be made.

2. Communicating tasks
? The Senior Project Manager should be able to articulate and negotiate consensus on a final vision of the product and/or the core project goals from scoping the requirements of all stakeholders, not forgetting the end-user.
? The Senior Project Manager should be capable of defining acceptance criteria or working with specialists to define acceptance criteria for project deliverables and will works towards achieving stakeholder acceptance of deliverables.
? The Senior Project Manager must be courteous and polite in written and oral communication, and be able to get ideas across in a non-confrontational manner in one-to-one situations, small groups, and before large audiences.

3. Team management tasks

? The Senior Project Manager will identify the need for resource, and should subsequently take on team management responsibilities in relation to the resource available to the project.
? The Senior Project Manager may work directly with the team members or with their team leaders to estimate effort, plan activities and negotiate consensus among individual team members on their appointed tasks.
? Alternatively, the work or parts of the work may be done by third party contractors, managed and coordinated by the Senior Project Manager.
? The Senior Project Manager will need to exercise good judgment in whether tasks should be broken down into smaller detail or not.
? The Senior Project Manager should be able to use MS Projects, spreadsheets or other appropriate tools to manage people and tasks and keep up-to-date.
? A Senior Project Manager may need to be experienced in providing a team with direction and vision, including motivating people to perform, listening to people, providing feedback, recognizing strengths and providing challenges.
? The Senior Project Manager is likely to be responsible for bringing the project to a close, which may include creating an end of project report or evaluation document, h and capturing and using relevant lessons learned.

4. Technical and quality tasks

? Without necessarily being an expert, the Senior Project Manager should make an effort to understand the technology being used in order to understand and question requests coming from specialists and technical staff and to evaluate what is reasonable or possible.
? The Senior Project Manager must have an understanding of relevant methodologies, processes and standards and ensures that all project team members understand and follow these also.
? The Senior Project Manager is responsible for the project?s commitment to quality ? also referred to as fitness for purpose or specification level, and may need to call on specialists to assist in creating or assessing quality standards.

5. Organising tasks
? The Senior Project Manager may need to generate many types of document, including requirement specifications, contracts, schedules, personnel records, project reports, communication (email) records, design specifications, meeting agendas, minutes and status reports.
? The Senior Project Manager may need to create a structure for project documentation and remain conscientious in using it and ensuring that the rest of the team understands and uses it.

Requirements


Requirements

Education and Experience

- Bachelors degree or higher (Required)
- qualification in project management or equivalent
- knowledge of both theoretical and practical aspects of project management
- knowledge of project management techniques and tools
- direct work experience in project management capacity
- proven experience in people management
- proven experience in strategic planning
- proven experience in risk management
- proven experience in change management
- proficient in project management software
- minimum 3 years IT project management experience (Preferable)
- MS Office skills ? Word / PowerPoint / MS Projects is a must.
- A basic understanding of IT and Wireless infrastructure.

Key competencies

- critical thinking and problem solving skills
- planning and organizing
- decision-making
- communication skills
- influencing and leading
- delegation
- team work
- negotiation
- conflict management
- adaptability
- experience in translating and expressing business requirements and priorities
- ability to identify critical issues and provide sound advice and solutions on complex IT / Wireless issues
- relationship management skills
- excellent written and verbal communication skills
- influencing and negotiating skills
- highly developed analytical, conceptual and problem solving skills
- facilitate and drive interviews and workshops with relevant stakeholders
- demonstrate highly developed skills in analyzing and documenting

About the Company


About the Company

Networkers International now fully own SNS Consultancy FZ LLC, so will now be trading as such and is now fully integrated into the 11 country global footprint of Networkers International Plc.

Within the Middle East we continue to offer our clients and candidates extremely high levels of service across the IT, Telecommunications, Engineering, Construction, Energy and Homeland Security sectors, each covered by teams that specialise in their given area.

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