IT Consultant at Procept Associates Professional Services Limited

Procept Associates Professional Services Limited (Procept Africa) is a franchise of Procept Associates Limited, Canada.  We specialize in consulting, training and software solutions, through a network of associates and partners, using best practice frameworks in Canada, Nigeria, South Africa, East Africa, Zambia and now Ghana.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: IT Consultant

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time

Responsibilities
Supporting the Team Lead in the following areas:
Initiation and Governance:

• Preparing Project Requirement Document
• Establishing Project Organization and Governance
• Preparing Project Charter
• Preparing Kick-Off Meeting slides for Steering Committee
• Preparing Kick-Off Meeting slides for Project Team

Assessment:

• Establishing Assessment Criteria
• Preparing Assessment Tool
• Establishing Assessment Schedule
• Conducting Assessment
• Analyzing assessment outcomes
• Preparing Assessment and Gap Analysis Report including recommendations
• Presenting Assessment and Gap Analysis Report

Planning:

• Establishing a project plan based on the outcome from assessment and previous implementation approaches.

Executing:

• Coordinate the work for each remediation action until completion
• Coordinate the work for each project objective until completion
• Gather data required to support the work required for each phase of the assignment
• Coordinate all workshops required to address remediation actions and project objectives
• Prepare draft deliverables including documentation
• Review the work of all the team members

Closing:

• Validate that all remediation actions and project objectives have been completed and closed
• Prepare Project Closeout report
• Obtain Project Completion Form from client
• Obtain Client testimonial

Meetings and Governance (Monitoring and Controlling):

• Supervising, coordinating and reviewing the work of team members
• Prepare Progress Report for Project Team
• Prepare Progress Report for Steering Committee
• Present Progress Report to Project Team
• Establish and regularly update RAID-C Log
• Obtain Client testimonial
• Maintain relationship with Clients

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or HND from a reputable tertiary institution
• Minimum 1 - 2 years work experience
• Understanding of best practice frameworks including service management (ITIL); business continuity management (ISO 22301; Procept’s BCM Lifecycle; BCI and DRI); information security management (ISO 27001); business analysis (IIBA); project management (PMI, PRINCE2 and/or Agile); business relationship management (BRM Institute); IT Governance (COBIT, CISA, CISM, CGEIT); enterprise architecture (TOGAF) and ISO standards
• Proficient in the use of tools such as MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) are vital, with strong emphasis on presentation skills and report writing.
• Organizational, analytical, problem solving and time management skill.
• Must be able to work long hours and weekends to meet deadlines (clients and non-clients) in a fast-paced changing environment.
• Must be discrete and highly confidential
• Must be flexible enough to have alternating and extended work hours including ability to work virtually.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.