Program Manager at Alfred & Victoria Associates

Alfred & Victoria Associates is one of Nigeria’s leading ICT solution based company. Our company offers a wide range of services which are in high demand of today’s emerging market. AVA has three major arms which have been streamlined to meet our customer’s needs.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Program Manager

Location: Lagos
Group: Technology
Department: Technology
Unit: Technology Operations
Reports to: CTO

Job Objective(s)

• Implementing an Agile methodology.
• Consultants will lead cross-functional teams to deliver innovative products to the market. This key role will facilitate the project team through the SCRUM process of release planning, sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• The ability to communicate clearly and concisely regarding deadlines, project plans and status is essential.

Specific Roles and Responsibilities

• Create an environment in which your team(s) can execute Products.
• Coordinate and facilitate Scrum meetings/Scrum on Scrum.
• Plan and facilitate team release planning, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives for 2-3 cross-functional Scrum teams.
• Maintain a multiple-sprint release plan, release trajectory, and release burndown, based on capacity and velocity predictions.
• Enforce team rules, help resolve impediments, facilitate productivity, and increase the probability of success in each sprint. Champion accountability within and outside the team.
• Represent your teams at scrum-of-scrums, coordinating dependencies across teams.
• Provide visibility of team status and issues to senior management.
• Promote a collaborative team environment that fosters creativity and innovation.
• Promote continuous team improvement, measure the team, and help the team and individuals measure themselves.
• Mentor team members and others on agile software development principles and practice.

Team:

• Lead.
• Drive.
• Delegate.
• Coach.
• Mentor.
• Motivate and Influence.

Education

• Minimum of 2nd class lower in first degree. (MBA, MSc, MA, ML is a must).

Work Experience:

• Minimum of 15 years working experience in a corporate environment, must have worked as a project manager and managed projects using the Scrum framework within this time.

Skills:

• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Strong knowledge of computer applications especially MS Office Tools.
• Oral and written communication skill.

Knowledge:

• Information Technology Process improvement.
• Information Technology Process methodology.
• Information Technology Project management.

Personalities and attributes:

• Lead, Coach, Mentor, Motivate and Influence.
• Team player.
• Honest, proactive and hardworking.
• Ability to adapt to changes.

Salary
Very attractive.

Application Closing Date
3rd June, 2019.

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