Director IT Projects and Portfolio Management

Key responsibilities:

• Define, manage, and direct the IT end-to-end PMO work effort, leveraging best practices to identify, quantify, and track the realization of expected benefits defined in business cases.

• Provide regular visibility on the IT project portfolio status, including key decisions, dependencies, issues, risks, and metrics, through status reporting and program/work stream reviews.

• Regularly review and evaluate opportunities to improve project management best practices to achieve higher maturity in PPM.

• Direct PPMO meetings, present performance updates regularly, and follow up on corrective and preventive actions to prioritize programs and projects based on company and IT objectives in a dynamic business environment.

• Manage changing functional needs, resource capacity constraints, risk exposure, and interdependencies.

• Generate project status reports providing consistent and integrated views of project data, reporting on performance metrics for IT Strategic Projects.

• Collaborate with internal audit and Risk management to drive appropriate IT controls and support them to ensure compliance and accuracy of the established controls.

• Provide oversight for all IT internal audits observations and Risks findings with the owners to address or mitigate them, and provide regular updates to concerned departments.

• Perform other responsibilities as required by higher levels of supervision.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Computer Science/Information Technology or equivalent from an accredited institution.

Experience:

• Minimum of Seven (7) years of project management experience.

• Plus 5 years leading/managing a PMO.

• Plus 8 years management responsibility including managing a team of project management professionals.

• Plus 5 years working in Telecom.

Managerial Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the achievement of the strategic objectives of the sector through performing own responsibilities and managing direct reports' performance.

• Set the department's goals and objectives and ensure the cascading of such to reporting sections, and guide their achievement.

• Contribute to the development of the sector's policies, procedures, and processes through providing input as advised by the direct supervisor.

• Provide direction and advice to the direct reports in performing their delegated responsibilities.

• Ensure the ongoing development of the department's employees, and assure the developmental activities of direct reports.

• Oversee the overall performance of direct reports and ensure KPIs are well communicated and monitored.

• Ensure effective identification, allocation, and utilization of the division's resources.