Project Manager ICT

Job Description

Title: Project Manager ICT

Company Name: mPower Social Enterprises Ltd.

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline from a reputed university.
∎ Having an MPH or an MBA degree will be considered as an added advantage.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ mPower is a pioneer and global leader in "Development Intelligence", business intelligence for the social development in government and non-government sectors. If you are passionate about changing the world and improving the lives of millions of poor and disadvantaged people of the world combining both creativity & cutting-edge technology, apply for our Project Manager ICT vacancy.
∎ mPower Social Enterprises Ltd. mostly deals with clients from Government and Non-Government Organizations. During the project life-cycle, regular monitoring of deliverables from different stakeholders within deadlines is absolutely necessary. We are looking for someone who will take complete ownership of his/her projects from initiation to closure. Certain portion of the LOE will be assigned for Donor funded programs after recruitment.
∎ Duty Station: Head Office in Banani, Dhaka with occasional field visits as per project needs.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Development and review of project roll-out plan and quarterly budget plan for health projects. Share project plans with senior management and clients to keep them in the loop
∎ Keep track of project milestones and key deliverables on day-to-day basis to ensure project activities are on track. If any issue is noticed, raising flags to senior management and if changes in existing agreement is required, communicating with clients to make required changes.
∎ Coordinate project activities among the project management, development, business, implementation, quality assurance and system analysis team to ensure the project runs in proper harmony and all teams are on board for the project properly.
∎ Conducting weekly project meetings with product development, implementation and system design team managers to discuss about upcoming deliverables and way forwards to handle any bottlenecks that might come up.
∎ Developing regular project progress reports and budget reports based on incoming project data analysis, activity analysis from project management system and field reports for the senior management team and relevant stakeholders on a monthly basis.
∎ Managing project constraints, including Scope, Quality, Schedule, Budget, Resources, and Risk(s) and ensures road blocks are removed. Identifying and communicating project/program interdependencies to relevant stakeholders. Escalate issue and risk to Senior Management to obtain their directive for appropriate mitigation.
∎ Working with Business and Technical resource managers to ensure the needed staff are available and assigned to the project; including entering resource requests into System.
∎ Maintaining liaison and coordination with key stakeholders and partners to ensure smooth management of project activities and deliverables.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Fluency in written and spoken English. Advanced communication skills to do effective and goal-oriented project management.
∎ Work cooperatively and effectively with clients and internal teams to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions that enhance organizational effectiveness.
∎ Assess crisis situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the problem.
∎ Ability to perform logic driven negotiations with project stakeholders.
∎ Strong decision-making capabilities based on the available information.
∎ Keen observation skills with attention towards details to identify different issues of existing projects and coming up with optimal solutions.
∎ Proactive problem-solving attitude.
∎ Ability to Pick up new skills and processes quickly and rigorously.
∎ Managing and working cooperatively with all relevant project stakeholders in a tactful and effective manner to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions that enhance organizational effectiveness.
∎ Proficient in MS Office applications, MS Project, Microsoft Visio, Project Management tools.
∎ Minimum 5 years of work experience in ICT sector.
∎ Prior experience in working with Government HMIS will be treated as an advantage.
∎ Prior experience of managing USAID funded project and Government liaison will be preferred.

Salary:
∎ Negotiable
∎ Competitive salary package.

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Income tax paid by the company.
∎ Lunch provided by the company.
∎ Two festival bonuses.
∎ Leave Encashment/ Carry Forward Facility.

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 25 Jun 2023

Company Information:
∎ 17 Jun 2023
∎ mPower Social Enterprises Ltd.
∎ Business : About mPower: mPower Social Enterprises was founded by graduate students of Harvard University and MIT in 2008. Currently based in Dhaka (Bangladesh), mPower has partnered with more than 30 of the world`s leading development organizations across 8 countries to amplify the impact of development programs through innovative use of ICTs. Our partners/ funders include BRAC, Save the Children, CARE International, Oxfam, Winrock International, The Asia Foundation, Grameen, World Bank, UNDP, UNICEF, WHO, DFID, USAID, Population Council, Harvard and Johns Hopkins University. mPower has won a number of competitive innovation awards both at international and national levels, including USAID Global Development Award, Gates Innovation Challenge, Grand Challenges Canada etc.
Vision: A world where everyone has access to quality services
Mission: We partner with development organizations to amplify the impact and outreach of their interventions by leveraging the power of information and communication technologies
mPower`s Services:
We help implementers harness the power of innovative design, information technologies, and market forces to ensure delivery of quality services to the underserved
We design and build solutions that allow implementing organizations,
to provide more timely and higher quality services using frontline workforces
to collect field data for better decision-making, organizational learning and monitoring
to develop capacity of community members so as to positively influence choices and behavior
to empower community members to report abnormalities and hold service providers accountable
to take market-driven approaches to service delivery rather than subsidy-driven in order to ensure sustainability

Category: IT/Telecommunication

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