• Junior Project Manager at Tezza Business Solutions Limited

    work Tezza Business Solutions Limited
    placeLagos
    Date Posted: 2018-12-05

    Tezza Business Solutions Limited, a leading Software Quality Assurance and Testing multinational with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria, is hiring a Junior Project Manager.

    Short Description

    • In this position, you will be responsible for organizing our clients’ technical projects and ensuring that all members of the operating team work efficiently.
    • You should have an aptitude for thinking outside the box and enjoy critical thinking, organization, and overall team management.
    • Experience within the IT sector will be hugely beneficial.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Review and provide feedback on all project documentations including Business Requirements Documents, System Requirements Specification documents and Functional Design documents
    • Review the project plan and Plan activities for how application under test will be verified and validated
    • Assist in updating Requirements Traceability Matrix that ties activities back to project documentations
    • Assess and confirm that the pre-requisites for initiating the project activities. This would entail the review of; the objectives for the project & the nature of the project/product
    • After project approval, assist the sponsor to create a detailed project plan and update the project cost estimate
    • Schedule the project based on targets and resource availability;
    • Management of the project plan (milestones, activities, key deliverables);
    • Confirm adherence to best practice to project management best practice.
    • Monitor progress and prepare reports for discussion with Team Leader.
    • Guide project teams to deliver projects to agreed time and quality
    • Maintains organization's effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies.
    • Directs technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects.
    • Completes projects by coordinating resources and timetables with user departments.
    • Verifies application results by conducting system audits of technologies implemented.
    • Preserves assets by implementing disaster recovery and back-up procedures and information security and control structures.
    • Recommends information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements.
    • Accomplishes financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analysing variances; initiating corrective action.
    • Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
    • Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.

    Desired Skills & Experience

    • 1+ years of experience within a project management role
    • Experience working in an IT shop
    • Proven ability to manage complex and multiple projects with tight and conflicting deadlines - fast paced, dynamic work environment.
    • Sound working knowledge of technologies and industry trends.
    • Strong communication skills and the ability to successfully engender a participative process across a culturally diverse group of internal and external stakeholders.
    • Strong initiative, forward thinking and creative problem-solving skills with the ability to create or stimulate customer-focused strategies.
    • Strong level PC/software skills, particularly in MS Office suite and project/process design and administration tools (e.g. Visio, MS Project).
    • Experience using Jira and Agile methodology.

    How to Apply

    Interested and qualified candidates should click here to apply.


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