Principal Officer, IT Projects

This position is responsible for providing project management support for one or more innovation and IT projects or programs that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of the project(s), activities include identifying, prioritizing, and controlling projects to achieve specific strategic business objectives.

Major Duties

• Prepare project charter, project schedule, prepare periodic project progress report and communicate to the relevant Stakeholders.
• Define project activities and duration that the project team members must perform to achieve the project objectives
• Plan human resource requirement for each project task and review users’ requirements and control Project Scope.
• Work in collaboration with the change management team to create awareness and facilitate the buy in and adoption of IT projects and initiatives.
• Identify and mitigate IT Project risks that involves determining which risks are likely to affect a project and document the characteristics of each in the risk register
• Ensure the quality standard of IT Project implementation and execution of User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Review each deliverable at each major millstone and get sign off from the project sponsor/owner
• Conduct post implementation review and analysis on the IT projects success based the IT Project Charter and other checklist prepared by the project owner and IT Project Management Department
• Develop exhaustive project management plans that includes subsidiary plans for scope, schedule, budget, quality, human resources, risk, communications, stakeholders, and procurement
• Ensure that User Acceptance Tests are planned, executed, and reported in a timely manner
• Prepare periodic project progress reports and communicate to all relevant stakeholders as indicated in the project communications plan
• Conduct project monitoring and controlling on every project including but not limited to earned value tools
• Ensure timely close and reporting of issues, actions, and risks by using various templates, registers, and forms
• Ensure that each project is closed project, resources are returned, and project closure report is prepared
• Document lessons learned for each project during the implementation of the project and at its closure
• Participate in the preparation of post-project implementation review according to agreed project charter
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned from time to time

Job Requirements

Education:

• Bachelor's/ B.Sc. Degree in Information Science, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Management Information System, Project Management or in related fields

Experience

• At least 5 years relevant experience with  1 years as Senior Officer as a Professional/Expert

How to Apply

Qualified candidates can apply through this LINK

Please attach your updated CV and credentials in PDF format.