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Job Title: Project Manager – Product Owner for Digital LSFF
Location: Abuja
Duration: 18 Months
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Job Description
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Project Manager – Product Owner for Digital LSFF to manage and provide support on the Digital LSFF project. This role will be on a fixed-term contract basis up to 18 months, subject to availability of funding. This position is open to GAIN’s country offices in Abuja and London.
Reporting to the Deputy Director, PST, the Project Manager will provide functional, technical, and managerial leadership to projects and teams in the thematic area.
You will lead a high-performing cross-functional project team, and establish, manage, and maintain relationships with relevant partners and stakeholders. The post holder will be responsible for the overall project management leadership and ensure the project team implements project activities within approved plans, budget, and quality standards.
The Project Manager, throughout the project life cycle, will ensure accurate planning, management, and reporting of activities, budgets (resources), monitoring, external services, and any other key areas required to deliver successful projects.
Responsibilities
Revising and executing a digital product strategy according to organizational goals, market trends, customer demands and the requirements of diverse stakeholders
Building and maintaining a deep understanding of all the digital product aspects, including the customer and user perspective, competitive products and our technical capabilities
Implementing best practice User-Centered-Design methodologies and research to achieve high user value and satisfaction and integrating stakeholder feedback/suggestions through best practice demand management processes
Leading the preparation for the inception workshop for the project. Facilitating the inception workshop with support from the other teams in GAIN
Leading a high-performing project team consisting of people across the organization including a consortium of 8 organizations; bringing together the skills, experience and competencies required for successful digital project delivery
Working with Business Architect to ensure product development enables go-to-market strategy, as well as developing positioning and messaging for customers
Collaborating with a consortium including designers and developers to ensure the deployment of necessary features, including overseeing customer research, solution design, user story writing, feature development, user acceptance testing, and market research
Building and maintaining strong partnerships with civil society, INGOs, government entities, private sector and other organisations
Ensuring monthly project reporting (in line with GAINs Project Management Standards) to update management on program progress achieved, program plans, changes in direction and challenges encountered
Requirements
The ideal candidate will possess experience on digital product development/digital transformation in emerging or developing country markets and knowledge and experience of working according to agile methodologies and lean product development, such as CSPO, SCRUM.
You will have proven experience in project management in complex and diverse environments, cross-disciplinary teams and product design or development. The postholder will also possess experience working in an Agile environment (reviewing business needs, refine priorities, outline milestones and deliverables, and identify opportunities and risks) as well as experience in food and agriculture systems development, experience in managing programs and digital transformation.
In addition to this, you will have excellent communications skills and able to work with diverse groups/individuals and comfortable working in multicultural and multi-lingual environments. You will be fluent in both written and verbal English. The postholder should also be highly flexible and willing and able to travel.
A Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, information systems or related field and/or recognized international accreditation in project management. You will be computer literate in Microsoft Office and with experience in SQL queries and with back-end and front-end programming languages such as Java, HTML, CSS.
Application Closing Date
23rd June, 2024.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
