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Delivery Manager Jobs – Kanzu Code Foundation
Job Title: Delivery Manager
Organisation: Kanzu Code Foundation
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Kanzu Code Foundation discovers, develops, and deploys young African tech talent into the exciting tech ecosystem, through accelerated, immersive, project-based online tech training programs and later connecting our brilliant tech talent with diverse local and global work opportunities.
Job Summary: Reporting to the CEO, the Delivery Manager will oversee and manage software projects from start to completion.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: Working closely with the engineering team.
Delivery manager will:
- Fully responsible and accountable for the monthly, quarterly and annual revenue targets expected from their team — the wins and losses.
- Identify and engage potential clients in order to gather project requirements
- Review the work scope and align with the lead engineer to generate precise project scope, cost and timelines.
- Collaborate with the lead engineer to create viable project plans — including creating Trello cards and assigning tasks to the team.
- Ensure efficiency of their engineering team — including task delivery, monitor project risks e.g. scope creep, blockers, delays etc. And create solutions for timely project delivery and handle team concerns to keep a project on track.
- Track project milestones, deliverables, timelines and change requests. This tracking is done per team member (individual level) and whole team (team level). This can be done using Trello, Sheets and/or Slack.
- Execute timely testing of the engineer’s work to ensure that the client requirements are met with acceptable quality. This is key for repeat business!
- Manage the communication between their team, company management and the clients. This will involve running ad-hoc, daily, weekly, monthly and annual meetings for strategic purposes to ensure alignment.
- Prepare, maintain and submit daily, weekly, monthly and annual reports about projects and their team. These will be submitted to the CEO.
- Work with management to ensure that their team is profitable and healthy — including recruitment process, leave management, payouts etc.
- Any other duties assigned to you
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- A bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Software engineering or a related field or an equivalent combination in the areas of Software programming.
- A minimum of 3 years experience as a software engineer.
- Proven experience in leading or managing software projects.
- A good leader who can make decisions and motivate a team.
- A good communicator who is fluent in English — spoken and written.
- Result oriented.
- Understands the business of software projects.
- Strong attention to detail and multi-tasking as well organized.
- Strong ability to work independently. You must be proactive.
- Knowledge of PHP/WordPress and Javascript is an added advantage.
How to Apply:
All candidates should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 24th July 2024
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