Middle Manager Project Portfolio Delivery

About the role

Task Grade: M18 Area of specialization: To be accountable for planning, formulating, implementing, managing and maintaining professional projects support strategies, services, resources and controls required for the success of the multi million rand network expansion portfolio per operating unit to meet the network expansion and refurbishment needs of the operating unit, Department of Electricity and Energy (DEE), Integrated Demand Management (IDM) and key customers Department: Project Development Business Unit: Grid Planning and Development Location: Megawatt Park

Responsibilities

• Skills and Competencies Required
• 1. Behavioural
• Resilience and flexibility
• Integrity and values
• Professionalism
• Trustworthiness
• 2. Leadership
• Strategy generation and alignment
• Change leadership
• Stakeholder mobilisation management
• Represents Eskom
• Embraces diversity
• Emotional maturity
• Negotiation and conflict resolution
• Business acumen
• Teamwork, collaboration
• Dealing with complexity
• Working with authority
• Providing direction through change
• Strategic thinking
• Building and developing teams
• Building cross-boundary, cultural relationships
• 3. Knowledge
• Project management
• Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and other project management systems and
• tools
• Construction management and regulations
• Earned value management (EVM)
• Contracts management
• Quantity surveying
• Financial management
• General management
• Portfolio strategic alignment
• Portfolio governance management
• Portfolio performance management
• Portfolio communications management
• Portfolio risk management
• Portfolio stakeholder management
• 4. Skills
• Analytical
• Problem-solving
• Judgment and decision-making
• Influencing and persuading
• Client focus
• Organisational communication
• Delegation of authority and responsibility
• Developing organisational talent
• Negotiation, persuasiveness
• Planning and organising
• Strategic functional leadership
• Key Responsibilities
• Lead the development of project management procedures, guidelines and standards.
• Manage portfolio accounting, costing and cost control systems.
• Monitor, assess and improve the network expansion portfolio execution of projects.
• Manage portfolio planning and schedule control processes.
• Establish and manage the project contracting environment.
• Act as a project management centre of excellence.
• Manage programme and project management mentoring and coaching

Requirements

• Minimum Requirements
• Qualification(s)
• B-Degree/B Tech/Advanced Diploma in Built Environment/Commerce/ Human Sciences at NQF7 with 360 credits.
• Experience
• 7 years of project management experience.