Postal services in Afghanistan have a history of more than a century. These services were first laid in 1870 for the first time during the reign of Amir Shir Ali Khan, which witnessed significant ups and downs due to changes in the political, social and cultural spheres. In 1928, Afghanistan became a member of the World Postal Union and in 1968, a member of the Asia-Pacific Postal Union, in order to expand its postal relations and strengthen ties with the rest of the world.

 To offer and develop traditional and modern postal services that meet the needs of customers and compete in the market nationally and internationally; The change of legal personality has manifested itself.

The goals of the Afghan Post SOC include:
• Providing postal services with credibility, acceptable and accessible to customers
• Development of postal services
• Launching lucrative digital services
• Providing employment opportunities
• Provide postal facilities to postal customers
• Development of postal network in the country
• Growing the quality of traditional and modern postal services
• Compliance with global postal laws and standards
• Adapting postal service quality standards
• Expanding relations to governmental and non-governmental departments
• Partnership and cooperation with the private postal sector

Job Overview/Summary:

This position provides overall project management for technology infrastructure projects. The primary function of this position will be to plan, schedule and track core infrastructure, Platform and Electronic Locker technology projects within the IT department. Areas covered network infrastructure hardware and software. Design deployment Operation, Control Room Design implementation and Operation & Platform Design Development Hosting and Operation and maintenance using Electronic Locker in borders of the country the ability to continually identify, prioritize and mitigate day-to-day project issues and risks and effectively control project scope are critical success factors.

This position requires strong organization skills, excellent interpersonal skills, and the ability to work well in a distributed, multicultural environment. The ECTS Project Manager reports to the (IT Director) and works collaboratively with IT Team and associates across the organization.

The person in this position will develop and manage existing project documentation, including project schedules, weekly and monthly status reports, presentations, risk logs, action logs, issue logs, etc. The Project Manager works proactively to gather information required for analysis of project cost, resources, time and other project supporting deliverables.

Major Responsibilities:
* Creates and Maintains Project Plans: Develops, and continually updates, detailed project/program management plans. Develops work breakdown structures based on the project objectives and scope. Ensures PM methodology is adhered to.
* Supports the Management of the ECTS Project Portfolio: Work with appropriate IT and Vendors or supplier to define, prioritize and manage the pipeline of potential future ECTS (Electronic Cargo tracking System) project. Work with stakeholders on reporting the current status of the project based on established project management criteria. Facilitate the process to accelerate, decelerate, add to or remove projects from the portfolio.
* Manage Project Status Reporting: Prepares status reports to convey project scope, goals, milestones, budget, risk, status, change requests, and critical issues to the client and project team.
* Develop and Maintain Project Schedules: Incorporates regular updates from each functional team.
* Lead Project Cost Estimation and Ongoing Budget Tracking: Provides budget information to (Management) . Assists in developing costs estimates and analyzing data.
* Perform Project Resource Management: Provides work direction and leadership to assigned projects, including scheduling, assignment of work and review of project efforts. Identifies project resource requirements and staff assignments. Checks for staff availabilities. Updates the project plan with work assignments.
* Conducts Risk Management: Maintains documentation for identified risks and mitigation strategies. Proactively gathers and updates risk status and documentation as needed.
* Support Stakeholder Management: Works with technology and business owners to analyze stakeholder expectations for projects based upon approved project requirements.
* Integrate Project Business Analysis: Works with project team members and stakeholders to integrate technical and functional changes to projects into work assignment and schedules
* Provide Overall Project Administration: Participates in program team meetings, proactively documents meeting minutes, track issues, decisions and action items, and follow-up between meetings to drive issues to closure.
* Other Support Duties as Needed: Performs other duties or special projects as required or as assigned

Key Working Relationships:
* Works closely with IT Teams to understand technology and business needs and goals
* Works with IT Director to maintain a productive working relationship with technology staff, project sponsors, system users, and vendors.
* Interacts with other IT Team, senior technical personnel, and other functional or support organizations.

Position Reports to: (IT Director)
Position directly supervises: Project Team

Indirect Reporting: (Deputy Operation & Commerce)

Other Internal and/or external contacts:

Internal:
* Project Management team
* Central Post Office & National Field Teams - multiple departments
* As needed, business project team members outside IT, and wider stakeholders
* Project Sponsor and Steering Committee members

External:
* Vendors and Consultants

Education: Bachelor Degree from Computer Science, Computer Engineering, information Technology or other related field Master Degree will be preferred  

Knowledge/Skills

* Can estimate the project’s effort from functional/technical requirements to the necessary level for planning and scheduling purposes
* Functional understanding of datacenter components and conceptual integration of servers, storage, and networking technologies.
* Strong technical vocabulary for communicating with engineers and translating for business users.
* Working familiarity with leading IT industry hardware/software providers.
* Knowledgeable about the integration of risk management (security, backup/recovery, redundancy) into technology implementations.
* Can prioritize trade-offs between on-time, on-scope or on-budget delivery
* Skilled at project scheduling, including via automated tools, and can analyze progress and trade-offs
* Can implement project change process, as appropriate for scope control and change processes
* Can debate effectively for or against project changes, as appropriate
* Supports Project and Portfolio Management process implementation
* Sufficient communication and organization skills to implement a formal communications plan
* Capable of project risk assessment, monitoring and mitigation planning

Preferred Additional Requirements

Experience in working within a Project Management Office, or equivalent structure
* Some hands-on experience with systems administration, virtualization platforms, network engineering concepts and/or cloud hosting platforms.
* Experience working with telecom vendors for circuit provisioning and Move/Add/Change orders.
* Experience with IT security and compliance considerations such as would be gained in a validated environment.
* Project Management certification
* Working knowledge of ITIL , ITBM , ITSM
*  PMP certified; or actively working toward certification

Working Environment:
* Standard office working environment

 Qualification:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other related field, Master Degree is Preferable.

Experience:

* Minimum 7 years of experience managing cross-functional IT projects of medium to high   complexity.
* Experience with IT service Project , IT infrastructure Project on an enterprise level and support process redesign and documentation
* Experience implementing project-related changes into a 24x7 production environment.
* Exposure to IT infrastructure/datacenter technologies, such as Balde Architecture  server hardware and operating systems, SAN storage, Load Balancer , and networking equipment such as switches, routers, firewalls.
* Must possess knowledge and expertise in the use of project management methodologies and tools, resource management practices and change management techniques.

Interested of afghan nationals should submit their updated application comprises your CV and a non-page cover letter explaining your interest and suitability for the advertised position.

Email: recruitment@afghanpost.gov.af

Human resource directorate

Afghan Post SOC.

PLEASE MENTION THE VACANCY NUMBER & NAME OF POSITION YOU ARE APPLYING IN YOUR E-MAIL SUBJECT LINE otherwise the application will not be considered

APPLICATIONS RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

ONLY SHORT LISTED CANDIDATES WILL BE CONTACTED FOR INTERVIEW.

The vacancy announcement is open only for Afghan national(s) applicants.