About the position
Responsible for leading and delivering high-impact Organisation Effectiveness initiatives . The role combines strong project management discipline with advanced business analysis capability. The incumbent will manage complex, cross-functional projects, conduct business analysis, engage stakeholders, and ensure projects deliver measurable value aligned to organisational priorities.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Project Management
- Project Management: Plan, execute, and monitor projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with organisational goals. This may involve managing project timelines, resources, risks, and dependencies.
- Apply appropriate project management methodologies to ensure timely and effective delivery (agile/waterfall/sprint).
- Manage the end-to-end delivery of strategic and enterprise-wide projects, from concept through to implementation and benefits realisation.
- Develop and maintain project charters, business cases, project plans, schedules, budgets, and risk registers.
- Monitor project performance, manage dependencies, and proactively address risks and issues.
- Provide project leadership and guidance to project teams and contributors, including external service providers where applicable.
- Manage Post-implementation reviews and lessons learned
- Ensure governance, reporting and assurance requirements are met.
Business Analysis & Strategic Insight
- Conduct business analysis to define problems, opportunities, and strategic options.
- Engage stakeholders to elicit, analyse, and document business requirements, functional specifications, and process maps.
- Assess current-state processes and design future-state solutions that improve efficiency, effectiveness, and customer outcomes.
- Translate strategic objectives into actionable initiatives, measurable outcomes, and success indicators.
- Support data-informed decision-making through analysis, insights, and scenario modelling.
- Make recommendations that align to project management objectives.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of project delivery frameworks, tools, and standards.
Stakeholder & Change Enablement
- Partner with Senior Manager: OE to align projects with organisational strategy.
- Facilitate workshops, design sessions, and strategic conversations to build shared understanding and commitment.
- Support change management efforts by ensuring stakeholders are informed, engaged, and ready to adopt new ways of working.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Qualifications & Experience
- Relevant Honours degree in Business Management, Project Management or a related qualification.
- Minimum of 7–10 years’ experience in project management, with significant exposure to HR and enterprise wide projects.
- 5 – 7 years in business analysis, including requirements elicitation, process mapping, and solution design.
- Project management certification (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2, Agile) and business analysis certification (e.g. CBAP) .
- Local government experience is added advantage
Desired Skills:
- • Analytical skills
- • Strong attention to detail
- • Strong ability to manage projects
