PMO Project Manager

• 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.

• 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.

Skills

• Knowledge of Project Management (principles, policies, procedures, and internal processes)

• Knowledge of Portfolio and relationship management

• Knowledge of industry practices

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

• 3 to 5 years of relevant experience of which 1 year in a Bank or Financial Institute in IT PMO function

• Valid Driving license

• English and Arabic speaking preferred