Posted May 09, 2024 385 views
Main Responsibilities:
- The primary responsibility of the Senior Project Manager is to enhance Directorate of Reform & Automation’s capability to deliver WeBOC projects by maturing the DTO (Digital Transformation Services) and creating a delivery focal point for project information, progress and expertise. The required tasks may include:
- Lead on all WeBOC’s Programs/Projects w.r.t planning, coordination, collaboration, and monitoring of activities and support alignment of various activities against holistic strategic drivers promoting commonality of approach, process, and documentation.
- Prioritize projects and change requests in close consultation with the Directorate of Reforms & Automation and communicate the priorities to the WebOC development team.
- Ensure that deliverables, objectives, and outcomes of the project(s) are achieved as specified, within agreed timelines, as per agreed quality standards
- Lead project meetings and facilitate workshops as required, producing & presenting written and oral reports/management information to Senior Management and other stakeholders as appropriate.
- Identify, document, analyze and, if required, challenge internal & external customer requirements, ensuring the project meets business needs / strategic aims
- Undertake detailed project planning & documentation (defining project deliverables, success criteria, benefits management, dependencies, change control, risk management) including escalating risks & issues as required.
- Closely monitor project progress, performance, and quality, including evaluation and benefits realization. Develop / implement tools for effective project management and reporting.
- Monitor and report progress against plans through regular reviews and maintain close contact with all stakeholders for tracking project implementation, and identification of implementation gaps if any.
- Lead and provide guidance to Project Managers for the delivery of projects/programs on time, within scope and on budget.
- Develop, implement, and govern Trade Reform Program Management processes, dashboards, templates, policies, and metrics.
- Monitor compliance with project policies and standards.
- Interface with executives to define project priorities, implementation opportunities, and challenges and communicate project risks and opportunities.
- Serve as the PSW point of contact with the Directorate of Reforms & Automation, Customs, Federal Board of Revenue on all WeBOC related issues.
- Provide project management support to the WeBOC transformation team being established by PSW for WeBOC upgradation.
- Manage own continuous professional development, internal collaborations and external networks, to contribute to service quality, research excellence and innovation.
Required Skill Set:
- Strong leadership qualities and organizational skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, assignments, and roles.
- Understanding of business processes of cross border trade will be an added advantage.
- Exceptional knowledge of Agile/Scrum/Lean principles and practices.
- Strong knowledge of SDLC principles and practices.
- Experience using Click UP/ JIRA / Zoho /Atlassian/ Slack workflow will be preferred.
- Experience in a program or project office environment including familiarity with best practice program and project governance.
- Candidates with PMP or PgMP certification shall be preferred.
- Experience in strategic alignment, request prioritization and benefit management.
- Experience in people and performance management.
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills. In particular, a demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally as needed to support the strategic goals.
- Delivering high-profile, approved business transformation projects.
Job Details
Pakistan Single Window
Pakistan Single Window (PSW) is an ICT-based system in Pakistan providing a single window for trade. PSW is a facility that allows parties involved in trade and transport to lodge standardized information and documents at a single-entry point to fulfill all import, export, and transit-related regulatory requirements. If information is electronic, then individual data elements need to be submitted only once. PSW will connect relevant government departments with each other and with economic operators like importers, exporters, customs agents, shipping agents, transporters etc, in Pakistan for efficient management of cross border trade. It will provide the ease and transparency in achieving compliance with relevant regulatory requirements, through an on-line facility, that will intelligently handle the information for each transaction without the need to provide same information more than once or to physically visit such government departments. Pakistan has committed to implement various provisions of World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement that includes implementation of a National Single Window (NSW) system before February, 2022. Pakistan also needs PSW implementation to overhaul management of its external trade for reducing time, cost and complexity involved to improve its position in various global rankings on competitiveness and ease of doing business. Guiding vision and mission objectives: VISION: Pakistan will establish a world-class automated hub by 2022, offering services and creating efficiencies, to reduce cross border trade related costs, time and complications for improved trade facilitation and compliance. MISSION: Improve cross-border trader processing by providing centralized ICT based services, simplified processes, effective and reliable automation, harmonized data exchange and risk-based selectivity in enforcement of government’s regulations.
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