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About

International Medical Corps seeks a Project Manager to lead a cross-departmental team delivering PIMS projects, including acquiring partners and vendors, implementing PIMS and supporting loyalty retention. The role manages project risk, quality and progress to organizational standards and is expected to deliver projects on time, on budget, to quality standards and within agreed scope. A relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, at least seven years’ experience leading complex projects, and an industry project-management certification are required. Reference: 5573 Duty station: Kenya - KE (Primary); Somalia - SO Office Nairobi

How to apply

Apply online through the official International Medical Corps careers advert page.

Responsibilities

• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
• Track project milestones and deliverables.
• Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.
• Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.
• Conduct project postmortems (i.e. lessons learned) and create recommendations reports to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
• Draft and submit budget proposals and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary.
• Where required, negotiate with other department managers for the acquisition of required staff time.
• Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitment if necessary, during project cycle.
• Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.
• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.

Qualifications

• Typically, a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering. Equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.
• Master of Business Administration is preferred.
• 7+ years hands on experience in leading medium to highly complex department and/or enterprise projects spanning across multi-disciplined areas, including 3+ years working with manager or director level.
• Core Adept Capabilities: Project Management, Influence and Negotiate, Deliver Results, Think and Solve Problems.
• Core Intermediate Capabilities: Manage and Develop People, Finance, Act with Integrity.
• Industry Project Management Certification (e.g. PMP, Prince2).
• Ability to operate a personal computer and other standard office equipment.
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in working with Microsoft Office Suite, project management software, diagram/process flow software, conference software, and statistical software.
• Strong troubleshooting and technical research abilities a must.
• Must demonstrate the ability to work in a high pressure, fast-paced environment.
• Must be able to effectively multi-task with complete follow through.
• Must be energetic, self-motivated, and flexible.
• Excellent interpersonal/communication/written/documentation skills.
• Must have the ability to communicate technical information to non-technical users.
• Demonstrated experience in resource management.