Line Manager: Lead Project Manager
Role Outline: To assist the Lead Project Manager and Programme Heads to ensure effective Project Management relating to Financial Inclusion projects. We are looking for a Junior Project Manager who has experience working on Financial Inclusion related projects or other relatable Economic Development projects Please note this is NOT -an IT Project Support role OR -Engineering Project Support role Your application will automatically be declined if you are in the above areas Non-negotiables for successful consideration:
- Completed degree (NQF 7)
- MAXIMUM 5 years’ experience in project management
Key Responsibilities:
Core Accountability 1: Project Administration
- Assist in the coordination, management and implementation of specific projects
- Arrange meetings and send out any relevant information, and attend each meeting to take minutes.
- Meet with the Project Manager to review progress and to discuss future steps
- Identify any potential issues or risks that could affect the progression of the project
- Support to plan, design and deliver project activities
- Monitor activity and budget implementation
- To be responsible for the day-to-day planning and supervision of specific projects
- Ensure the efficient capture and retrieval of complete and accurate project records
- To ensure that project results are made available to the relevant people, providing feedback to project managers, project teams and other staff as necessary
- To monitor the progress of a project against agreed and documented time and budget targets while ensuring appropriate quality standards are maintained;
- To liaise with Project Managers to enable appropriate project resourcing
Core Accountability 2: Project Support
- Maintain crucial project documents which track project progress
- Ensure that all documents are accurate and have been accepted by the Project Manager
- Check regularly that every deadline is still possible, and report any potential delays to the Project/Programme Manager
- Maintain project calendar and milestones.
- Supporting the project leads to develop project plans
- Updating contract forecast to support budgeting and forecasting
Core Accountability 3: Financial Administration
- Updating the team’s project financial reports
- Coordinating the team’s input to project forecasting (revenue and costs)
- Assisting with time management and expenses against projects
- Acting as the link between the Project Management team and Finance team when required.
- Assist in the preparation of fundraising concept notes, proposals
Core Accountability 4: Stakeholder Relations
- Maintaining relationships with various stakeholders.
- Monitor project delivery of all stakeholders to achieve deadlines.