Information Technology Project Manager

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES Description Project Management

• Project Initiation and Planning: define project scope, objectives, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders and develop comprehensive project plans to guide team efforts towards achieving project goals on time and budget as per PMO framework, guidelines, and P&Ps.
• Resource Coordination and Management: allocate and manage resources, including team members, budget, and materials, ensuring optimal utilization to meet project milestones and deliverables within agreed timelines and budgets.
• Execution and Implementation: lead project execution, coordinating team activities and managing tasks to adhere to the project plan, while implementing approved changes and adjustments to ensure project objectives are met.
• Monitoring, Control, and Reporting: continuously monitor project progress against plans, identifying variances and implementing corrective actions as necessary, and provide regular, detailed reports to stakeholders on project status, progress, risks, and outcomes.
• Quality Assurance and Risk Management: ensure project deliverables meet quality standards and stakeholder expectations through rigorous quality control processes through proactive identification, analysis, and management of project risks and issues.
• Project Closure and Evaluation: conclude projects successfully by ensuring all contractual deliverables are met, conducting post-project evaluations to document lessons learned and releasing project resources, and formally closing out all project phases.
• Prepare effective project plans and schedules to ensure consistency with agreed standards, specifications, and timeline provisions.
• Train team members at various departments on the project management toolset.
• Contribute in monitoring activities of assigned project team members, including any assigned third party consultants. Operations Management
• Managing the day-to-day operations of the PMO department by providing expertise, ensuring teamwork, and aligning project processes in order to achieve high performance standards related to project delivery and ensure project stakeholders meet established targets and objectives. FFC Human Resources 2 / 2 Project Management Office Programs and Guidelines
• Support project management guidelines for enhancing project processes as per agreed upon strategic objectives, timelines, and budgetary requirements. Selection and RFP Support
• Provide advice and guidance during RFP development, reviewing and analysing tender documentation to ensure that project requirements and scopes are clear and accurate prior to releasing to prospective vendors.
• Support shortlisting and vendor selection by providing technical review of proposals and vendor submissions to ensure compliance with RFP and project requirements, to highlight any areas of variance prior to FFC awarding a contract to a vendor. Testing Management
• Collaborate with other stakeholders; devise the test objectives, organizational test policies, test strategies and test plans.
• Lead, guide and monitor the analysis, design, implementation and execution of the test cases, test procedures and test suites. Organisation Structure
• Coordinate and act as the focal point of contact between all business units, suppliers, and sections within the organization on all PMO related activities. Policies, Systems, Processes and Procedures
• Follow all relevant departmental framework, policies, processes, standard operating procedures, and instructions so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner. Related Assignments
• Perform other related duties or assignments as directed.
• To act as a back-up in the absence of a colleague. 4. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, AND SKILLS Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field. Experience:
• 3 to 5 years of relevant experience of which 1 year in a Bank or Financial Institute in IT PMO function Job-Specific Skills (Generic / Technical):
• Knowledge of Project Management (principles, policies, procedures, and internal processes)
• Knowledge of Portfolio and relationship management
• Knowledge of industry practices
• IT Background: A strong foundation in IT is a must as the majority of FFC projects are IT based/related.
• Bilingual: must be proficient in both Arabic & English to effectively communicate across diverse teams.
• Digital Transformation: Should have hands-on experience managing digital transformation initiatives.
• Project Management Skills: Strong ability to manage multiple projects in parallel and delivering successfully from inception till completion. In addition, he should have leadership traits with effective communication skills as he’ll be reporting to CEO and dealing with C-level/heads and key stakeholders on daily basis.