Posted Oct 29, 2022 383 views
Responsibilities:
- Understanding of Project Scope and its Deliverables.
- Implement Project Management Institute (PMI) standards.
- Strong background to manage project implementation of large-scale projects.
- Act as a bridge between vendor and stakeholders to ensure timely communication/meetings, followed by well-defined action items and action owners.
- Prepare Communication Plan, Stakeholder Management Plan, and Risk Management Plan.
- Ensure an exhaustive plan from the vendor that focuses on Project Phases and their deliverables, development, integration of existing systems, installation & deployment, quality assurance & training services, and active support in change management.
- task execution by vendors and proactively mitigate possible delays.
- Ensure timely project deliverables from the vendor such as Project Inception, Infrastructure Requirements, Software Design, and Integrations documents.
- Prepare Escalation Matrix and inform stakeholders timely about any variation in the project baseline.
- Use technology to ensure all stakeholders are informed of the schedule, progress, and issues in the project.
- Ensure timely approval/feedback on deliverables from Internal or External Stakeholders.
- Review project deliverables from the vendor with the project team and make sure UAT signoff before production deployment and rollout.
- Promptly acknowledge and resolve issues/queries raised by any stakeholder.
- Keep track of project progress, deadlines, and open issues and Communicate project status to stakeholders and key project participants.
- Communicate with project team (such as Domain Management/Software Development/Networks and Infrastructure etc.) and Senior Management for providing visibility of project progress and to answer vendor questions.
- Organize catch-up calls regularly to get updates on progress, discuss any urgent issues and get clarity on vague ideas, constraints, dependency & assumptions.
- Monitor the quality of work performed by external vendors to ensure that it meets standards.
- Prepare status reports by gathering, analysing, and summarizing relevant information.
- Monthly Review Deliverables from the vendor such as Updated Business Requirements Specification, Updated Software Requirements Specification, Updated System Technical Architecture & Development, and deployment of developed services.
- Coordinate the development of user manuals, training materials, and other documents as per the defined scope to enable successful implementation.
- Be aware of vendor’s strengths and weaknesses.
- Previous experience managing vendors/contractors would be highly preferred.
Requirements:
- Strong communication (verbal &written) and organizational skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills and problem-solving abilities to deal with cross-functional team issues.
- Excellent understanding of the software development cycle.
- Ability to recognize technical, management, and cost risks and recommend mitigation approaches.
- Previous software development and release management experience.
- Proven ability to solve problems creatively.
- Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle.
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful.
- Ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget, and timeline
- Experience using Click UP/ JIRA / Zoho /Atlassian/ Slack workflow will be preferred.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Understanding of business processes of trade, logistics, supply chain, E-commerce, and transport will be an added advantage.
- Project management background/experience.
- PMP and/or ITIL certifications (desired, not required)
- Knowledge of PMI / PRINCE2 methodology.
Qualification & Experience:
- Masters / MBA-MIS or bachelor’s degree in computer science/ project management /computer engineering from HEC recognized University.
- 6 Years - 12 Years in managing IT and software development projects.
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Pakistan Single Window
Pakistan Single Window (PSW) is an ICT-based system in Pakistan providing a single window for trade. PSW is a facility that allows parties involved in trade and transport to lodge standardized information and documents at a single-entry point to fulfill all import, export, and transit-related regulatory requirements. If information is electronic, then individual data elements need to be submitted only once. PSW will connect relevant government departments with each other and with economic operators like importers, exporters, customs agents, shipping agents, transporters etc, in Pakistan for efficient management of cross border trade. It will provide the ease and transparency in achieving compliance with relevant regulatory requirements, through an on-line facility, that will intelligently handle the information for each transaction without the need to provide same information more than once or to physically visit such government departments. Pakistan has committed to implement various provisions of World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement that includes implementation of a National Single Window (NSW) system before February, 2022. Pakistan also needs PSW implementation to overhaul management of its external trade for reducing time, cost and complexity involved to improve its position in various global rankings on competitiveness and ease of doing business. Guiding vision and mission objectives: VISION: Pakistan will establish a world-class automated hub by 2022, offering services and creating efficiencies, to reduce cross border trade related costs, time and complications for improved trade facilitation and compliance. MISSION: Improve cross-border trader processing by providing centralized ICT based services, simplified processes, effective and reliable automation, harmonized data exchange and risk-based selectivity in enforcement of government’s regulations.
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