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Role Purpose 

PMO Lead is responsible for significant, organization-wide projects, focused on meeting project commitments, including communications with sponsors and stakeholders. S/He will coordinate people, resources and processes to ensure that projects are delivered on time and produce the desired result. Leads the design, testing, planning, and implementation of complex projects.

Responsibilities

• End to end direct responsibility of project implementation benefits realization and project prioritization.
• Familiarize self with Telkom Kenya’s strategic intent in respect to product offering and target clientele, as well as their specific requirements.
• Developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility while providing leadership and oversight to a team of technical program/project managers.
• Work with business sponsors to develop project roadmaps that align with business objectives/priority and take into account resource availability.
• Manage delivery schedules and budgets to ensure project delivery is on time, within scope and in budget.
• Establish project governance systems and protocols across the organization and ensure that these are applied across the board.
• Enforce quality gates in all the projects and programs within the domain
• Relationship management with clients and key stakeholders involved in project management.
• Prepare sound communication plans and manage information dissemination
• Oversee companywide training and coaching on Project Management
• Use of standard project methodology and tools to track progress against deliverables
• Manage third party and specialist resources assigned to projects
• Identify, manage and mitigate risks that may impact projects
• Prepare project status reports and steering committee presentations
• Oversee creation and maintenance of comprehensive project documentation throughout the project Perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Manage team, ensuring achievement of goals, capability, and optimal deployment
• Resource allocation through coordination of internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
• Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT, Telecommunications or related field
• Must be a fully qualified and accredited project manager (PMP)
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification
• Proficient in Microsoft Project
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in managing complex technical projects.
• Experience in telecoms required, but focus is on general understanding.
• Functional experience in the following fields is valuable in the role: organizational change, product / go-to-market strategy, distribution strategy, sales force effectiveness, customer experience / centricity / loyalty, business development, pricing, CAPEX planning, operational efficiency / process optimization.

Skills

• Highly developed interpersonal skills aligned to strong team leadership competencies.
• Project management
• Planning and organizing
• Business process analysis/modeling
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with clearly demonstrated methodologies to keep project teams and stakeholders well informed.
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Budgeting 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Great attention to detail
• Strong business, financial acumen commercial experience.

How To Apply

Application should be sent to  [email protected]  by providing an updated Curriculum Vitae (CV) before  23rd December 2020  including details of your current telephone contacts and names of three referees.

Please note, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted .

Telkom Kenya is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to tribe, religion, gender, age or disability.