Summary
Date Posted: Monday, August 16, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job title: Project Execution Supervisor
Managing Director's Office
The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) is positioning itself to be the Social Security Provider of Choice in Uganda. Our purpose is “to make lives better” by means of a highly ambitious innovation program focused on customer experience and financial growth. As a result, we have a healthy pipeline of strategic projects which require effective execution. We therefore seek the services of a Project Execution Supervisor to support the Program Management Office (PMO) in its oversight function on the quality of project management.
Job Title: Project Execution Supervisor (1position)
Reports To: Program Management Office (Pmo) Services Manager Department: Managing Director’s Office Duty Station: Kampala, Workers House
Main Purpose:
As the Fund delivers future-oriented projects in relation to its long-term strategic objectives, the Project Execution Supervisor will be responsible for supporting project teams to conduct credible needs assessments and project planning, based on “agile” principles. You will also be responsible for facilitating project teams to: create product roadmaps, validate business/customer requirements as they are being delivered, and prepare project reports in order to keep the project teams on course and the Project Steering Committee(s) updated. Ultimately, you will facilitate and support strategic project teams to deliver the intended value of their projects to market as quickly as possible.

Duties and Responsibilities include:
• Aligning Needs Assessments for Strategic Projects by working with the project teams to develop project business cases, guiding teams, managers, and users on integrating the customer perspective using user stories and active feedback loops. 
• Facilitate Project/Product Roadmap Development i.e. work with project and product teams to develop, set priorities and design credible delivery roadmaps.
• Coaching and mentoring Project/Product Teams through training the project and product teams on Agile Methodology to help ensure effective project outcomes. 
• Institutionalize Agile Project/Product Management Practices and Processes by working with the PMO Manager to develop knowledge management systems to share best practices and information on agile product/project management throughout the fund.
• Participating in calendar milestones and activities aimed at enabling the Strategy department to achieve its mandate, e.g. providing support over the facilitation of the annual Strategy retreat. 
• Serving as a key resource and/or advisor in the development and delivery of the Fund’s digital transformation strategy. 
• Supporting the innovation program directly and indirectly as the situation demands.
• Participate in internal staff management processes such as meetings

Education Requirements:
1. The applicant must have Bachelor’s degree in a business or technology-related field.
2. Must be a certified Project Management practitioner (preferably, Prince2 Agile practitioner or PMI Agile certified practitioner).
3. Added advantage;
• Certification in Business Analysis, such as: Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) from the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA).  • Professional Certificate in Agile Business Analysis from the British Computer Society – Chartered Institute for IT.  • A degree equivalent in Business Analysis. 
Related Job Experience:
1. The applicant must have at least at least 3 years of combined professional experience in a Project Management role (with a technology enablement bias) in a busy office environment.

Skills and Abilities:
• Strong spreadsheet skills
• Strategic Thinker
• Data analytics/management, business intelligence and business analysis. • Presentation Skills
• Strong analytical and business acumen.
• Resourceful, with a problem-solving attitude and willingness to think creatively to reach resolutions.
• Collaborative and able to build bridges across cross-functional teams.
• Active listening skills, and the ability to listen for feedback, and validate and address concerns.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Ability to travel domestically and globally to share Thought Leadership and work on building internal innovation capacities with external clients the Fund may contractually engage with.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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Job application procedure
Interested individuals should send copies of academic credentials, application letters and detailed CVs addressed to the Head of Human Resources & Administration to recruitment@nssfug.org  by Wednesday 25th August 2021, for registration and onward transmission.
Please note that canvassing or lobbying will lead to automatic disqualification of the candidate

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