Description
Job Purpose
Ensure risks of the projects are identified, assessed, and managed and ascertain that realistic project plans are maintained and that stakeholders are provided with regular and accurate communication. Coordinate the assessment of IT demands across the company, review Business Cases and obtain investment approval, adopt appropriate project management methods and tools and perform quality reviews, and confirm that all activities are performed in compliance
with the procedures.
Key Job Accountabilities
• Coordinate analysis, prioritization and approval of IT demands and implementation of IT projects as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC).
• Ensure documentation of IT demands, follows approved process, facilitates feasibility studies and business case preparation, reviews cost-benefit and return on investment analyses, and coordinates approvals.
• Prepare portfolio/program management plans and activities for the set of interrelated projects from demand approval to project close-out. Provide a cross program view to ensure consistency and that dependencies within the program are properly handled.
• Formulate and maintain Project Management Office (PMO) support strategy, processes, procedures, tools, and techniques in line with corporate standards. Verify standards for project delivery lifecycle including business cases and ensures quality of IT projects. Advise and ensure assistance to program/project managers on project management processes and adherence to standards and facilitate process improvement and other continuous improvement mechanisms.
• Ensure that appropriate software such as project management software or specialist monitoring tools/techniques are used for planning, estimating, documenting, tracking and risk analysis.
• Coordinate analysis, prioritization and approval of IT demands and implementation of IT projects as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC).
• Ensure documentation of IT demands, follows approved process, facilitates feasibility studies and business case preparation, reviews cost-benefit and return on investment analyses, and coordinates approvals.
• Prepare portfolio/program management plans and activities for the set of interrelated projects from demand approval to project close-out. Provide a cross program view to ensure consistency and that dependencies within the program are properly handled.
• Formulate and maintain Project Management Office (PMO) support strategy, processes, procedures, tools, and techniques in line with corporate standards. Verify standards for project delivery lifecycle including business cases and ensures quality of IT projects. Advise and ensure assistance to program/project managers on project management processes and adherence to standards and facilitate process improvement and other continuous improvement mechanisms.
• Ensure that appropriate software such as project management software or specialist monitoring tools/techniques are used for planning, estimating, documenting, tracking and risk analysis.
Qualifications and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a bachelor’s degree in any Business discipline.
• 10 years’ experience in management of complex IT Program and projects in a large organization.
• Experienced in evaluation of IT requirements and establishing IT Systems and Applications specifically within the Oil and Gas Industry.
• Possesses an extensive knowledge of business and business skills in more than one business sector and understands the significance of commercial constraints