Job Title:  Project Manager. Enterprise Portfolio Management Office

Organisation: MTN Uganda

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Senior Manager – Project Implementation

About the Company:

MTN Uganda is a subsidiary of MTN Group, a multinational Telco operating in Africa and Middle East, with over 280milllion subscribers, making it the largest in Africa.

Job Summary:   To manage project implementation cycle, Ensure workmanship quality during project implementation, Contractor Management and Resource and stakeholder management

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure projects are executed using best practice Project management guidelines
• Ensure Regular Project reporting as per Business requirements
• Ensure that all CAPEX projects are implemented within specified time lines and within Quality Plan
• Ensure handover of all completed Projects to the respective internal customers
• Prepare project timelines with fully interdependence in the project activities
• Ensuring all CAPEX projects follow customer centricity guidelines
• Properly Manage Project risks
• Properly Manage Project Procurement
• Properly Manage Project Contracts
• Properly Manage Project Tender and Evaluation process
• Project human resource management
• Manage project documentation

• BSc Engineering, Electronics, Computer Science or Equivalent

Work Experience           

• Minimum of 5yrs experience in area of specialization.
• Three years’ experience in Information Systems based Environment or telecoms environment
• Experience in running business projects, end to end is a MUST

Attributes and Skills Necessary Skills:

• Experience in a multidimensional projects;
• knowledge in business Projects; experience in project planning
• Demonstrable capacity for multi-tasking; excellent understanding of activity timing and impact assessment
• Further qualifications in Contract management, Tender process or Project management

Behavior Attributes

• Problem Solving
• Improvement driver
• Relationship Manager
• Operationally Astute
• Research
• Accountable
• Adaptable
• Agile