Job Description
Brief Description
Reporting to the Program Manager, the position holder will lead projects that matter—delivering technology solutions that improve lives, while building the skills to lead enterprise-wide transformations. We’re looking for someone who’s not just certified—but curious, collaborative, and ready to lead.
Responsibilities
- Develop project plans by integrating and documenting project deliverables, acceptance criteria, processes, procedures, risks, and tasks to facilitate project execution, controlling, and closing processes.
- Utilizes tools and metrics to track and improve project performance – MS Project, PWA, SharePoint, Project Initiation Documents (Statement of works, Governance Structure, Communication plan, Risk Management Plan.
- Contribute to PMO maturity and governance evolution. Enforces quality gates during the implementation of projects. This will involve stakeholder engagement and a communication management tool through the project life cycle until closure.
- Works efficiently and effectively to meet deadlines.
- Influence senior stakeholders to champion project outcomes. Effective risks & issues management.
- Implements changes to triple constraints in line with the defined change management process.
- Ensures timely CAPEX Utilization & receipting for all assigned projects.
- Produces clear status reports, communicates candidly and tactfully, makes others aware of any issues with the project, and is a generous listener.
- Contribute to the project management knowledge base by sharing lessons learned, best practices, research, appropriately to improve the quality of project management services, build the capabilities of colleagues, and advance the profession.
- Drive strategic alignment across programs.
- Facilitate cooperation within our teams and stakeholders to realize shared goals by encouraging collaborative problem solving, open communication, and teamwork.
- Supervise and motivate assigned project resources.
- Contribute to PMO maturity and governance evolution
Qualifications
- Degree in Engineering| ICT |Business Related field
- Certificate in project management is mandatory (PMP, Scrum Master, SAFe).
- Experience in leading successful initiatives as a project manager.
- Demonstrate strong knowledge, background, and mindset of Waterfall and Agile delivery methodology.
- Ability to motivate teams to achieve business outcomes.
About Us
We are the leading telecommunication company in East Africa. Our purpose is to transform lives by connecting people to people, people to opportunities and people to information. We keep over 42 million customers connected and play a critical role in the society, supporting over one million jobs both directly and indirectly while our total economic value was estimated at KES 362 Billion ($ 3.2 billion) for the 12 months through March 2021.
We are listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) and with annual revenues of close to KES 298 Billion ($2.5 billion) as at March 2022. We were founded in 1997 as a fully owned subsidiary of Telkom Kenya before a 40 percent acquisition by Vodafone Group PLC in May 2000, and a public offering of 25 percent shares through the NSE in 2008. Under the management of Vodafone Group PLC, we welcomed Michael Joseph, as our first CEO, a few months later in July of 2000. He led the company’s growth to accommodate 16.71 million subscribers from the previous 20,000, largely owing to innovative products like M-PESA in 2007.
