Project Manager

CSC requires the services of a Project Manager (level 3) to support the National Comptrollership Branch Corporate Financial Management System’s priorities and initiatives, such as but not limited to a full ERP migration and other related initiatives as required.

Mandatory requirements

• University degree or a two-year college diploma in finance, accounting, project management, business administration, or information technology;
• Project Management certificate recognized by the Project Management Institute (PMI);
• five (5) years of experience performing project activities for an SAP ERP Implementation project or an Oracle EBS implementation project;

Optional requirements

• SAP Activate Project Manager certification or the Oracle Project Management Training and certification;
• Certified Change Management Professional, or PROSCI Change Management, or Change Management Foundation and Practitioner Certification;
• Experience in projects that included the SAP modules, below:
  • Sales and Distribution and/or Point of Sale
  • Plant Maintenance
  • Inventory Management
  • Business Intelligence (BI) / Business Warehouse (BW)
  • Manufacturing
  • Order Management
  • Material Management
  • Financial Administration
  • General Ledger/Controlling/Financial Management
  • Delegated Financial Signing Authority
  • Warehouse Management
• Completed and delivered projects in which they performed all the following in organizational change management:
  • A detailed organizational change management strategy and presentations.
  • CM sub-strategies and associated plans and presentations, including:
    • a. stakeholder engagement;
    • b. risk management;
    • c. communications and
  • Employee coaching, transition, and training with respect to organizational change management;
  • CM performance measurement indicators and monitoring plan.
  • Weekly progress status reports on change management activities, risks, and issues.
  • Presentations and facilitation services for group discussions and consultations on CM.

General tasks

• Create clear and attainable project plans and schedules, build project requirements, and manage project costs, time, scope, and quality;
• Identify resource needs and work with resource managers to assign individual responsibilities;
• Manage day-to day operational aspects of the project and scope;
• Lead project scoping activities;
• Effectively communicate:
  • a. Relevant project information to stakeholders
  • b. Project changes and updates to appropriate team members;
• Facilitate team and stakeholder meetings to review work;
• Prepare regular status reports and distribute as necessary;
• Review deliverables prepared by project team prior to presenting to stakeholders;
• Ensure documents are complete, current, and stored following project or departmental IM policies;
• Address and/or escalate issues in a timely manner;
• Manage both internal and external approvals;
• Monitor scope creep and re-scope project if required;
• Track project issues, risk, and decisions;
• Prepare risk mitigation strategies;
• Manage contractor resources;
• Manage several project team members each responsible for an element of the project and its associated project team;
• Manage steady-state in-service support and business transition through the migration to a large IM/IT system, during its development and implementation;
• Assist in the development of performance metrics and/or standards that could be applied during the implementation of any initiatives or support activities;
• Define, document, and maintain plans, determine budgetary requirements, the composition, roles and responsibilities and terms of reference for the project resources using a variety of project management tools;
• Provide knowledge transfer to departmental personnel on an on-going basis;
• Define business strategies and plans in support of change management activities;
• Coordinate the development of training and coordination with various stakeholders, and;
• Create presentations and present to various stakeholders and facilitate meetings and discussions