About the Role

The position is based in Port Moresby and will report to the Manager Technology Project Governance. The successful incumbent will be responsible to work closely with technical experts, project leads and project managers in planning, creating, and managing project schedules, resourcing and dependencies at the agreed level of quality and within industry best practice standards. Additionally, this role is responsible for ensuring the reporting compilation and meeting duties for the various periodic Project Governance Forums are managed according to the agreed governance standards.

Key Deliverables

• Responsible for the Identification of project dependencies & project risks, for analysis, monitoring, tracking and reporting.
• Responsible for the Management of all project documentation in the central repository tool.
• Closely work with Technology Business partners and Delivery Project Mangers to maintain accurate and comprehensive documentation of project schedules, scope, and budget, with robust version control and traceability.
• Work with the Technology Delivery team(s) to analyze new project requests and impacts to the Technology Delivery portfolio and provide feedback as required to management and relevant project stakeholders.
• Track & report demand information appropriately through to project/ program execution to allow the project teams to manage their projects and evaluate resource and project/ program schedules accordingly.
• Ensure all users of the Project Management Tool(s) adhere to established governance requirements.
• In conjunction with the Technology Project teams, analyze, monitor/track and report on project resourcing capacity and allocation to relevant stakeholders.
• Support the Project Governance Officer with the Technology program/ projects reporting completeness i.e. ensuring collation of status reports, decisions register, change request registers etc. are updated and tracked on a regular basis.
• Support the Project Governance Officer, ensuring the documentation, compilation and distribution of following Governance forum Reports but not limited to.
  • Project / Program Steering Committee Report
  • Various Control Tower (As and when required)
  • Internal Technology Project Scrum
• Perform QA of Project Reports/Packs ensuring accuracy and quality of reports
• Contributions to Technology Governance Office Audit as and when required
  • PROJECT SCHEDULES
  • RESOURCING
  • DEPENDENCIES
  • DEMAND

Essential Qualifications, Professional/Skills and Experience:

• Tertiary qualifications in Computing or related discipline.
• Intermediate experience in using Microsoft Project Planner.
• Proficiency in the use of project scheduling software such as MS project.
• Strong communication skills – written and verbal.
• Good analytical and planning skills.
• Ability to learn quickly and work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in word processing and spreadsheet applications.
• Must have good attention to details.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Minimum of 3 years related-work experience in a project management office or as a project scheduler.
• 5 years of experience working in a large-scale project team or similar environment.

Applications are to be addressed to the Senior Manager Talent Acquisition and submitted via email to [email protected]