We are pleased to announce the following vacancy in the Products & Services Development Department within the Technology Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below: Senior Project Officer Ref: TECHNOLOGY_SPE__OCT _2012 Reporting to the Project Manager – Products & Services, the position holder will be provide project support services in the management and execution of projects within the department and coordinate and manage projects assigned to ensure implementation within agreed timelines and processes. The job holder’s key responsibilities will be to: Project Planning In association with project manager and stakeholders, refine project requirements, assumptions and constraints through communication with stakeholders and/or by reviewing project documents to baseline the scope of work and enable development of the execution plan; Develop the resource management plan (Human Resource), by identifying resource requirements and obtaining commitments from internal, external, and procured sources to complete all project activities; Refine project estimates in order to determine and define project baseline, schedule; Establish project controls by defining the required correct processes, measures, and controls to manage project change, communications, procurement, risk, quality, and human resources to facilitate project executing and controlling processes, and to ensure compliance with generally accepted industry standards; Develop a formal and comprehensive project plan by integrating and documenting project deliverables, acceptance criteria, processes, procedures, risks, and tasks to facilitate project executing, controlling, and closing processes; Obtain project plan approval by reviewing the plan with the client and other required stakeholders to confirm project baselines prior to proceeding with project executing processes; Project Execution In liaison with project manager & stakeholders, commit project resources in accordance with the project plan to ensure that all activities are performed; Implement the project plan by ensuring the execution of project activities and tasks to produce project deliverables; Manage project progress by ensuring that activities are executed as planned in order to achieve the project objectives; Communicate project progress by producing project reports to provide timely and accurate project status and decision support information to stakeholders; Implement quality assurance procedures by performing project control activities to meet project objectives; Project Control Measure project performance continually by comparing results to the baseline in order to identify project trends and variances; Take timely corrective action by addressing the root causes in the problem areas in order to eliminate or minimize negative impact; Evaluate the effectiveness of the corrective actions by measuring subsequent performance in order to determine the need further actions; Ensure compliance with the change management plan by monitoring response to change initiatives in order to manage scope; Reassess project control plans by scheduling periodic reviews in order to ensure their effectiveness and accuracy
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