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Project Manager
| Designation: | Project Manager |
| Category: | Multichoice Africa Holdings Operations |
| Level: | |
| Closing date: | 31 Oct 2024 |
| Position Type: | Permanent |
| Location: | MultiChoice City |
Job Description:
Purpose of the role:
To implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs. Lead the planning and implementation of project
Key Accountabilities
Project management
Define the scope of the project, as prioritised by the Exco and/ or the head of the PMO
Translate the approved and defined POC and/ or project plan into milestones to execute
Prepare and maintain comprehensive project documentation for all projects with milestone detail around:
prioritising project activities and timelines
coordinating and allocating resources
managing budgets
roles of third parties and vendors
Identify project inter dependencies and determine the optimal approach to deliver on the project
Track project deliverables using appropriate tools
Constantly monitor and report on progress of the project to all stakeholders
Develop full scale project plans
Provide direction and support to project team
Project evaluations and assessment of outcomes
Manage projects team to deliver on the project objectives
Ensure that business cases, functional specifications and relevant test cases are prepared and signed off by key stakeholders (where applicable)
Facilitated projects scoping sessions to assist technical team to translating business requirements into functional end solutions (where applicable)
Identify resources needed and assign individual responsibilities
Track and Deliver projects within agreed objectives, standards, budget and timelines
Manage and motivate project team members to achieve set project objectives
Effectively manage stakeholders’ expectations and project plan changes and consequences
Ensured approval of all changes, costs and decisions by project sponsors, owners and senior management
Track and report on all Issues, Risks and Decision that may impact project delivery
Conduct regular stage gate reviews with the Project Owner and Sponsor reviewing the viability of the project.
Ensure projects legal documents and contracts are signed off (approved) and stored (where applicable)
Define project KPI’s and measurements and ensure a clear KPI tracking mechanism is in place once the project goes live
Provide a consultative role to Business Analysts and provide support in the requirements elicitation process
Review and provide feedback on Business documents such as Business cases, business requirements, functional requirements, technical design documents
Set up and drive Steerco sessions
Governance
Adherence to Africa P&PO Reporting Standards
Manage Projects in accordance with accepted project management processes and methodologies as set out in the policies and procedures in the Africa P&PO
Ensured project documents are complete, accurate, current and stored as per Africa P&PO policy
Reporting
Produce regular status reports on a weekly and monthly basis or as agreed with the stakeholders
Compile Steerco pack where required
Stakeholder Relations
Establish and maintain the necessary relationships to execute projects
Provide specialised and technical support to internal and external stakeholders to ensure achievement of project objectives
Establish and monitor healthy, diverse internal and external relations and implement remedial actions where required, in the achievement of functional goals
Ensure SLAs are complete and available, and escalate deviations to relevant parties
KPI / Benefits tracking
Provide a consultative role to key project stakeholders in assessing benefits and strategic goals of projects prior to delivery
Facilitate and oversee the delivery of outputs linked to benefits realisation and maintain communication to stakeholders (to ensure benefits are measured, especially for tentpole initiatives where requried).
Go to Market
Work with different business functions (Sales, CVM, Regulatory, Tech, Digital, Marketing, Training etc.) to define the “How to win” strategy i.e. define the activities that each business function must be involved in, in the end to end the journey and what they’d need to contribute to the overall success
Manage and tracks the key executional elements required for successful delivery of the project across all business functions (Sales, CVM, Regulatory, Digital, Marketing, Training etc.)
Qualifications
A 3-year National Diploma in Project Management / Relevant Degree/ Equivalent
Microsoft EPM
PMBOK / Prince 2
Experience
Minimum of 3 years’ experience in managing multiple projects
Experience in managing projects with some technical delivery will be preferred
Experience in managing projects with some technical delivery
Media industry project management experience preferred
Rest of Africa hands on project experience will be an advantage
Senior Architect Decoder UI Development
| Designation: | Senior Architect Decoder UI Development |
| Category: | Technology |
| Level: | Senior |
| Closing date: | 02 Nov 2024 |
| Position Type: | Permanent |
| Location: | MultiChoice Technology |
Designation: Senior Architect Decoder UI Development
Category: Technology
Level: Senior
Closing date: 02 Nov 2024
Position Type: Permanent
Location: MultiChoice Technology
Job Description:
The MultiChoice Group is a multinational media and entertainment group headquartered in South Africa, Dubai and the Netherlands with principal operations in pay television, video entertainment, advertising and content security. Brands within the Group include DStv, GOtv, SuperSport, M-Net, DStv Media Sales, Showmax and European-based content security leader Irdeto. We’re proud to say we serve 20 million subscribers across 52 African markets, with a successful history of identifying and adapting to industry trends, allowing us to continuously deliver the best in entertainment. Key areas of operations are:
Storytelling ranging from content creation, production and aggregation including the best global general entertainment, sport and eminent African content library, delivered to customers
Pay Television: direct-to-home satellite and digital terrestrial television services;
SVOD: subscription video on demand services across multiple online platforms with a focus on library and local content in developing markets, and
Advertising: providing dynamic media solutions; handling commercial airtime, on-air sponsorships, content integration, and online sales across a variety of 130+ channel brands on linear TV, VOD, social media, and digital platforms.
The group’s strength lies in its focus on local language and culture, its entrepreneurial spirit and the quality of its workforce. Multichoice Group has a successful history of identifying trends early, adapting them for the markets in which it operates and leveraging them to maximum advantage. The group generates revenues primarily through subscription model, with a growing contribution from advertising revenue. Its key objectives are to:
Expand Pay TV, SVOD subscriber base and Advertising sales
Focus on investment and technology
Maintain a local approach
Provide quality service
Attract innovative and motivated employees
Join Africa’s most loved storyteller!
Purpose of the Position:
Architecting and Designing of technical solutions for UI/UX on STB.
Requirements analysis and development of architectural proof of concept works and artefacts.
Research industry wide solutions and recommend tools and technologies.
Prototyping new features and solutions.
Integration strategies & dependency mapping for the various work packages of the release.
Mentorship of Technical Teams.
Influential in company-wide technology decisions..
Key Performance Objectives
Operational Delivery:
Participates in pre-product discussions with stakeholders
Suggests product requirements for existing technologies
Contributes to product proposals
Writes and maintains technical requirements specifications (functional, non-functional)
Reviews requirements specifications
Is responsible for identifying & resolving technical risks
Advises stakeholders on what MCA systems can do and also impact on wider scope of E2E system
Monitors the evolution of standards that are relevant to the business / projects
Assists Project & Product management in defining phases
Active role in Change Request / Enhancement requests process for technical impact assessments
Breaks down product use cases into technical system / component use cases
Leads the core team for systems / components based on existing products to meet the customer needs
Defines and reviews system architecture & component specification documents
Defines and reviews interface documents
Defines and reviews the interfaces with third party suppliers
Performs analysis of requirements including gap analysis
Reviews list of materials (BOM) impacted by design
Provides guidance on requirements and system architecture to Developers, QC, Systems Integration & Systems Engineers
Ensures the delivered solution meets the business technical requirements for moderately complex systems
Responsible for identifying & resolving technical issues
Reviews lower-level component design
Provides input to the analysis of in-field issues & defects
Breaks down high level use cases into component level use cases, identifying modules impacted
Seeks clarification from system & solution architects as well as product team
Contributes to requirements reviews
Breaks down requirements into use cases for component backlogs
Works with product team (BAs) to understand functional & user requirements / behavior
Responsible for the component design including some of the following:
Design patterns and framework to use
Implementation technologies
Third-party or Open source components
Internal modules design & interactions
Collaborates on Interface Definitions / APIs with other component providers
Considers trade-off between design sophistication and time-to market when making architectural decisions
Tracks design decisions that result in technical debt
Owns the evolution of the component design / architecture
Ensures implementation respects rules of agreed framework
Applies best practices of software design
Involved in implementing the design, often writing framework code / foundation architecture
Offers guidance to developers, QA & Integration teams
Provides training on component if needed
Participates in ongoing Change Request Processes
Qualifications
B.Sc (Electronic and/or Computer Engineering) or similar qualification.
Postgraduate or PhD in the fields of Software or Hardware Engineering (optional).
Relevant industry wide patents preferred.
TOGAF certification preferable.
Experience
Typically, 12+ years of appropriate experience in embedded software design/development, preferably STB.
Excellent hands-on experience with Architecting and Designing for Embedded Devices.
Strong knowledge of embedded software development, integration, debugging/troubleshooting, testing, configuration, support and maintenance processes with multiple vendor components.
Strong knowledge of core Java language.
Strong knowledge of Web technologies (e.g. WS, RESTful, etc.) and scripting languages (e.g. HTML, Javascript, CSS etc.)
Strong knowledge networking technologies, protocols such as – HTTP, WS, FTP, UDP, UPnP, RTSP, RTP.
Strong knowledge of embedded hardware systems, real-time & Linux operating systems.
Strong knowledge of Database Design and Management tools (SQLite, etc.).
Strong experience in Systems Design Methodologies (UML and other Modelling Techniques).
Experience in Mentoring and Leading Technical Design Teams and good with Whitepapers and Technical presentations
Exposure to various SDLC methodologies like Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid, DevOps etc.
Nice to have knowledge of embedded C/C++ languages.
Experience with Architectural design tools like Enterprise Architect, IBM Rational or similar.
Experience with SDLC Tools, e.g. IBM Jazz, Jira, HP Quality Centre
Nice to have of Hardware Design and Components for STB..
Technical Competencies
Strategic Thinking
Analytical Thinking
Accountability
Teamwork
Delegation
Clear Communication
Perseverance
Motivating
Prioritization
Senior Project Manager
| Designation: | Senior Project Manager |
| Category: | Multichoice Africa Holdings Operations |
| Level: | Management |
| Closing date: | 31 Oct 2024 |
| Position Type: | Permanent |
| Location: | MultiChoice City |
Job Description:
Purpose of the role:
To implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs. Lead the planning and implementation of project
Key Accountabilities
Project management
Define the scope of the project, as prioritised by the Exco and/ or the head of the PMO
Translate the approved and defined POC and/ or project plan into milestones to execute
Prepare and maintain comprehensive project documentation for all projects with milestone detail around:
prioritising project activities and timelines
coordinating and allocating resources
managing budgets
roles of third parties and vendors
Identify project inter dependencies and determine the optimal approach to deliver on the project
Track project deliverables using appropriate tools
Constantly monitor and report on progress of the project to all stakeholders
Develop full scale project plans
Provide direction and support to project team
Project evaluations and assessment of outcomes
Manage projects team to deliver on the project objectives
Ensure that business cases, functional specifications and relevant test cases are prepared and signed off by key stakeholders (where applicable)
Facilitated projects scoping sessions to assist technical team to translating business requirements into functional end solutions (where applicable)
Identify resources needed and assign individual responsibilities
Track and Deliver projects within agreed objectives, standards, budget and timelines
Manage and motivate project team members to achieve set project objectives
Effectively manage stakeholders’ expectations and project plan changes and consequences
Ensured approval of all changes, costs and decisions by project sponsors, owners and senior management
Track and report on all Issues, Risks and Decision that may impact project delivery
Conduct regular stage gate reviews with the Project Owner and Sponsor reviewing the viability of the project.
Ensure projects legal documents and contracts are signed off (approved) and stored (where applicable)
Define project KPI’s and measurements and ensure a clear KPI tracking mechanism is in place once the project goes live
Provide a consultative role to Business Analysts and provide support in the requirements elicitation process
Review and provide feedback on Business documents such as Business cases, business requirements, functional requirements, technical design documents
Set up and drive Steerco sessions
Provide guidance and support to Project Managers, if required.
Provides support to Senior Manager as required
Governance
Adherence to Africa P&PO Reporting Standards
Manage Projects in accordance with accepted project management processes and methodologies as set out in the policies and procedures in the Africa P&PO
Ensured project documents are complete, accurate, current and stored as per Africa P&PO policy
Reporting
Produce regular status reports on a weekly and monthly basis or as agreed with the stakeholders
Compile Steerco pack where required
Stakeholder Relations
Establish and maintain the necessary relationships to execute projects
Provide specialised and technical support to internal and external stakeholders to ensure achievement of project objectives
Establish and monitor healthy, diverse internal and external relations and implement remedial actions where required, in the achievement of functional goals
Ensure SLAs are complete and available, and escalate deviations to relevant parties
Ensure effective communication between project managers and the business sponsors for projects
Chair Executive/ Steering Committee meetings for Project
KPI / Benefits tracking
Set up of value drive tree to determine important KPI that drive the most value for the organization
Provide a consultative role to key project stakeholders in assessing benefits and strategic goals of projects prior to delivery i.e. benefit realization tracking (tracking bottom line impact of projects in real time, to adjust and course correct projects that are underdelivering)
Facilitate and oversee the delivery of outputs linked to benefits realisation and maintain communication to stakeholders (to ensure benefits are measured, especially for tentpole initiatives where required).
Go to Market
Manage complex GTM planning in fragmented landscapes with different business functions (Sales, CVM, Regulatory, Tech, Digital, Marketing, Training etc.)
Work with business to unpack the “How to win” strategy of their initiatives i.e. define the activities that each business function would need to to to contribute to the overall success of the project
Manage and tracks the key executional elements required for successful delivery of the project across all business functions (Sales, CVM, Regulatory, Digital, Marketing, Training etc.)
Qualifications
A 3-year National Diploma in Project Management / Relevant Degree/ Equivalent
Microsoft EPM
PMBOK / Prince 2
Experience
Minimum of 6-8 years’ experience in managing multiple large projects
Experience in managing projects with some technical delivery will be preferred
Experience in managing projects with some business delivery i.e. end to end co-ordination with multiple business units
Media/Telecoms/Finance industry project management experience preferred
Rest of Africa hands on project experience will be an advantage
All the best with your applications.
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