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IT Project Management Office Head

  • Location:

    Basrah

  • Sector:

    Oil & Gas

  • Contact:

    Elaf Khoshnaw

  • Job ref:

    4681

  • Published:

    about 18 hours ago

  • Expiry date:

    2025-04-11

mselect is looking to hire an IT Project Management Office Head for an international oil and gas operator in Basrah, Iraq. Candidates must have 5-8 years of relevant experience within the Oil & Gas industry. Fluency in English and Arabic is a must.

Job Purpose
To lead an IT project team and provide an IT project management and IT parts of projects of other departments by the standing procedures.

Key Responsibilities
  • Apply standard project management and IT control/assurance methodologies, standards and processes (such as PMI agile) including architecture, information risk management, and transition to support
  • Have a solid infrastructure knowledge of telecom and network in the oil field
  • Have a clear picture of the products of major vendors in the industry
  • Lead the team to maintain the existing system with the assurance team
  • Give the guideline or suggestion for the design of the new system
  • Monitor system resource utilization, trending, and capacity planning
  • Liaise with vendors and other IT sections for problem-resolution
  • Comprehensive knowledge of relevant development life cycles and the operating environments and in-depth knowledge of risk management Understands the interdependencies of business processes and information systems
  • Understands and applies the theory and practice of change management Knows and uses various change methodologies appropriately at the individual, team and organizational level
  • Understanding of the costs of IT (project and lifecycle) and the ability to identify cost levers which the project steering committee can pull to drive down the operations costs

Requirements
  • BSc Degree in Engineering, computer, communication, electrical
  • 5-8 years of relevant job experience within the Oil & Gas industry
  • PMI certification
  • Knowledge of agile methodologies
  • Relationship Management: Promotes a collaborative "One Team" mindset
  • Good understanding of and demonstrable hands-on experience in all functional aspects of IT-Telecom including networking, security, maintenance SLA management etc
  • MS Office: Excel (advanced), Word (Intermediate), PowerPoint (Intermediate)
  • English – upper intermediate (verbal & written)
  • Proven supervisory skills
  • Communication skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Focus on continuous self-learning and improvement
  • Ability to work cohesively and communicate successfully in multi-cultural teams whilst being aware of and sensitive to cultural differences
  • Ability to communicate, coordinate, and manage cost data flow interfaces with each function

Rotation
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*Only applicants meeting the strict criteria outlined above will be contacted as part of the shortlisting process.