Project Manager

Project Manager

CAREER OPPORTUNITY:  PROJECT MANAGER

 Position Description:

The National Commercial Bank of Anguilla Ltd (NCBA), the leading financial institution in Anguilla, is seeking a suitably qualified and experienced individual to fill the position of Project Manager. 

The Project Manager is responsible for identifying, organizing, prioritizing, authorizing, managing, and controlling projects and programs to achieve specific strategic business objectives

 The position key accountabilities and required competency levels:

1. Develop project scope, cost estimates, human resource requirements, work plans, time schedules, communication plans, and makes work assignments to meet project or program objectives.
   1. Conducts risk assessments; reports identified risks to management; provides recommendations for mitigation of risk (including termination of the project if appropriate).

2. Coordinate with cross-discipline team members to make sure that all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules.
3. Establish and monitor program priorities, objectives, and procedures, determining area objectives, targets of service, and resource needs allocation.
4. Provide leadership and direction to the functional team so that tasks and activities are coordinated for project scope control, quality control, communication management, change control management, risk management and issue management.

6. Escalate impediments, manages risk, helps ensure value delivery, and helps drive relentless improvement.
7. Coordinate work activities by scheduling staff assignments, setting the work priorities, and directing the work of project resources, (including contractual) in the development of new information technology systems and enhancements to existing systems.
8. Sets and tracks project milestones; manages and accounts for unforeseen delays, then realigns schedules and expectations as needed.
9. Establishes and implements project communication plans, providing status updates to concerned staff and stakeholders.
10. Collects, analyzes, and summarizes information and trends as needed to prepare project status reports.
11. Preparing requests for proposals and conducting all necessary meetings to facilitate selection of project services and products
12. Meet with project team members to identify and resolve issues.
13. Submit project deliverables and ensuring that they adhere to quality standards.
14. Manage and Coordinate project technical teams engaged in the development of Information Technology projects.
15. Prepare status reports by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing relevant information.
16. Establish effective project communication plans and ensuring their execution.
17. Prepares and implements a budget based on estimates
18. Facilitate change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget.
19. Coordinate the development of user manuals, training materials, and other documents as needed to enable successful implementation and turnover of the process or system to the clients.
20. Provide technical advice and guidance for all I.T. related projects for the Bank
21. Identify and developing new opportunities with clients.
22. Work with all Managers/Section Heads to ensure project delivery with deadlines

The ideal candidate must possess the following qualifications and background:

a)     BSc Project Management or Computer Science

b)     Thorough understanding of project management fundamentals.

c)     Understanding of software development life cycle.

d)     Comptia Project+, CAPM, or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification..

e)     Minimum three (3) years’ experience in project management in a managerial role

f)      Proven experience in project management.

g)     Ability to lead project teams of various sizes and see them through to completion.

h)    Strong understanding of formal project management methodologies.