Delivery Lead - 12 Months Contract

SUMMARY:

Our client is recruiting for a Delivery Lead for a 12 Months project based in Cape Town to who will be involved in the actual breakdown of the execution of a project in biometric systems. The Delivery Lead will meet with all the parties and be involved in the actual delivery by meeting with the BA, the Solutions Architect and the design team.

POSITION INFO:
Qualification and Experience:

• Matric - Grade 12 & relevant tertiary qualification
• Certifications: e.g. MSP, PRINCE2, PMBOK and /or Agile related training (e.g. SCRUM or equivalent experience)
• 3+ year’s business or technology management
• 3 years of dedicated Project Portfolio and Programme Management
• Experience in supporting the delivery of large complex initiative
• Project management skills
• Leadership of multi-disciplined/skilled delivery teams within Portfolio
• Executive-level stakeholder management experience

• To effectively support and manage the portfolio demand pipeline of projects, programmes, and product iterations required to develop and release IT services and features.
• Support and take ultimate accountability for a project or set of projects, enabling it to effectively deliver through active sponsorship, leadership and business involvement in specific initiatives to ensure they meet time, cost and quality requirements.
• Facilitates, manages and coordinates the coherent activities needed to design, develop, and release services or service changes.

• Manage the technology demand portfolio and facilitates appropriate processes and methods for prioritizing demand under constraints of time and resources.
• Manages the criteria and evaluation of inputs to aid both business and IT stakeholders to agree on the prioritization of new or changed services.
• Accountable for breaking down requirements into work schedules, for all delivery styles (waterfall, agile, hybrids).
• Manages resource availability and resource scheduling across projects and BAU activities, using appropriate tooling.
• Plans how new or changed services are transitioned into operations, coordinating with other functions to ensure organizational readiness for change. Technical planning for "go-live".

• Supports projects through delivery, using appropriate methodologies. Ensures delivery within sanctioned parameters and responsible for delivering objectives.
• Coaches and leads teams to deliver on time.
• Using best practice methods and tools ensures that programme/project risks and issues are appropriately identified, assessed and mitigated.
• Ensures effective communication to all internal and external stakeholders on programmes and projects.
• Ensures visibility of IT resources, workloads, allocation, availability, and skills.
• Manages resource scheduling in the most optimal and efficient way possible.
• To manage support activities within agreed SLAs.
• Manage the relationships of the relevant application suppliers to ensure delivery on work requests

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