Broadcast Project Manager

1 Main Job Purpose
The Project Manager is expected to have very good management and communication skills to carry out the role. They are to coordinate the project to ensure all plans for achieving the goals run smoothly and efficiently. The applicant must possess a high level of technical knowledge both in their Project Management skills and modern television tapeless newsroom, production and Playout facilities so as to be able to successfully to understand and communicate to all parties. They are be expected to take accountability for planning, structuring, leading and executing the project and guarantee the smooth and efficient progress will all goals and deliverables being achieved according to the schedule.

2 Duties and Responsibilities

- Oversee the activities and plans a of the SI's and 3rd party vendors by monitoring progress and ensuring all issues are well understood and documented between all involved parties.
- Monitor delivered and realised benefits as the project progresses.
- Working with the Programme Manager to plan the project and monitoring its overall progress, resolving issues and initiating corrective action as appropriate.
- Manage and motivate the Project team members.
- Ensure the delivery of the project is to the appropriate levels of quality, on time and in accordance with the project plan.
- Be responsible for the quality assurance and overall integrity of the project.
- Manage third party contributions to the project as appropriate.
- Communicate with all stakeholders.
- Working with the Programme Manager and other Project Managers to ensure the dependencies and the interfaces between projects are documented and tere are not gaps between these projects.
- Manage and documents the risks to the project's successful outcome.
- Report progress of the programme at regular intervals to the Programme Manager and key stakeholders.
- Hold regular meetings between all project parties to ensure all issues are understood, documented and all parties are aware of the progress.
- Follow up on all issues with design and development to build and testing.
- Defines requirements and plan project life cycle deployment.
- Defines resources and schedule for project implementation.
- Efficiently identifies strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.
- Plans and schedule project deliverables, goals, and milestones.
- Directs and oversees project 3rd party vendors, technical teams and users groups and manages conflicts within these groups.
- Demonstrates leadership to define requirements for project risk.
- Develop Requests for Proposals (RFP) for external services and vendors.
- Lead technical evaluations of Vendors Responses
- Maintains technical and project documentation.
- Strong organizational, presentation, and customer service skills.

3 Skills/Attributes Required

- Experience of managing multiple parties including Engineering Teams and Third Party vendors in technologically innovative enterprise solutions.
- Experience in the design and interfacing of an Avid and VizRT based production and newsroom systems.
- The ability to manage dives teams.
- Understand resource allocation procedures.
- Project scheduling experience.
- Ability to create a sense of community amongst the members of the project team.
- Able to communicate at all levels with culturally dives key stakeholders and project participants.
- Good knowledge of MS Project.
- Good knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Excellent Documentation control

4 Qualifications

- PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification or equivalent preferred.
- Degree or higher in Engineering, Technology or related field.
- Minimum 5-10 years of experience in the broadcast industry.
- Minimum 3 years experience in Project Management of the delivery of a tapeless broadcast systems, workflows & processes project.