Procept Associates Professional Services Limited (Procept Africa) is a franchisee of Procept Associates Ltd, a premier provider of professional training programs specializing in Project Management, Agile Project Management, Business Analysis, IT Service Management and Business Continuity Management, with oversight for African region. Our consulting division has offered strategic consulting services in our specialization areas since 1983.

Job description

The ideal candidate will support the Team Lead, Consulting services in the execution and delivery of consulting assignments.

In this position you will be responsible for providing insights for clients’ needs. To do so, you will first meet with clients to uncover their business needs and challenges. Then, you will use your strong analytical skills to perform quantitative and observational data analyses. From these analyses, you will form and present your recommendations to our clients.

Responsibilities include:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Planning:

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

Job Requirements:

1. Education: Bachelor’s degree in from any recognized institution.
2. Experience: Two or more years demonstrable experience in three or more of the following domains/practices:
   1. 1. Business Advisory;
      2. Service Management;
      3. Business Continuity;
      4. Information Security;
      5. Project Management;
      6. Business Analysis;
      7. Enterprise Architecture.
3. Skills Required:
   • Strong analytical and quantitative skills;
   • Demonstrated proficiency in MS Office;
   • Strong presentation and communication skills.