Junior Project Manager

Location: Yaba, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• This is a key support role within project management teams, typically tasked with assisting the project manager in the planning and execution phase of project operations.
• This is a full on role to achieve the required success.
• If you are looking for a role that stops when you leave the office, please do not apply.
• We are looking for an extraordinary individual who will be an addition to our professional team and can think laterally within situations of project delivery management.

Job Responsibilities

• Schedule and conduct project meetings to communicate the team members’ roles, project expectations, and deliverables and ensure the project team has the tools and training required to perform the project’s task.
• Develop project plans and enhance adherence to the project plans to ensure project quality is maintained.
• Supervise lower project manager levels, such as assistants and associates.
• Understand the project scope, budget, duration and create the project requirements needed to complete the project.
• Identify areas of conflict of interest, which might hinder project implementation and propose possible solutions to the conflict of interest.
• Identify project risks and prepare risk mitigation measures to enhance full utilisation of project resources.
• Maintain a good working relationship with project vendors to enhance quality and timely delivery of supplies.
• Design the project methodologies and deliverables and monitor all teams to enhance adherence to the best-identified methodology.
• Monitor the projects regularly to evaluate the progress, quality, management issues emerging, and any events that might cause a delay in project completion.
• Safeguard and maintain all the quality documents and data to ensure project integrity is enhanced.

Requirements
Qualifications / Skills:

• Competence in IT usage, particularly in standard project management tools like PowerPoint and Excel.
• Conflict resolution skills.
• Proven working experience in project management.
• Certified junior in project management.
• Ability to work under pressure and complete projects within a set duration and budget.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Bachelor's Degree in Project Management or Business Administration.
• Minimum of 2 years work experience.
• Ability to work with strict deadlines.

Other Requirements:

• UML Design principles experience.
• Waterfall, Agile and Prince2 methodologies.
• Project Management qualification required but not essential.
• Experience of managing software and business delivery projects with a timeline of at least 6 months from initiation to delivery.