Job Opportunity in Egypt as an IT Agile Project Lead in Orange Company

Orange offers a job opportunity in Egypt as an IT Egypt site agile project lead. The agile approach facilitates and energizes the adoption of an agile mindset and agile ways of working across the full range of IT activities in OBS IT in Egypt align with the IT next-generation strategy. The key figures of the host entity are OBS IT in Egypt is 200+ employees forming most of the ITIL  functions such as incident management, problem management, service level management, QoS, and user experience in addition to some development activities.

Eligibility:

You must have:

1. Energy/ vivacity/ positive mental attitude.
2. Tenacity/ resilience/able to maintain positivity even in the face of overt or covert resistance.
3. Good listening skills/ facilitation/coaching.
4. Flexible/adaptable/willing to do what needs to be done.
5. Cultural awareness.
6. Curiosity/ creativity/lots of ideas.
7. Willingness to learn and develop on the job and off the job.
8. A model of good practice in agile mindset and way of working.
9. Ability to manage by influence using powers of persuasion and influence.
10. Ability to negotiate conflicting priorities.
11. Ability to work on own initiative without close supervision.
12. Ability to manage conflict.
13. Ability to work within ambiguity and in a matrix rather than hierarchy.
14. Strong written and verbal communications in English.
15. A knowledge of French would be a bonus.
16. Project management expertise and track record.
17. Trained and experienced in working in agile mode and on agile projects.
18. IT technical understanding and the ability to understand the principles of IT technologies in use.
19. Blended learning off the job through coaching, online learning, etc.
20. It is an operational position and a cross-departmental position.

Your Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for:

• Progress tracking and reporting on IT NextGen activities.
• Facilitation of workshop sessions.
• Coaching of managers and supervisors to enable them to explore what agile means for them personally and their way of managing.
• Delivery of MVP actions.
• More agile customer-centric way of working in OBS IT Egypt resulting in savings (money, time, people, materials) and greater customer satisfaction.
• You will work in close collaboration with the Customer Marketing&Innovation (CMI) site leader to specify and shape action plans and take the lead on managing and maintaining the momentum on the full range of IT NextGen and other transformation or project activities across the Cairo team.
• Act as an agile coach, facilitator and educator to Egypt OBS IT leadership team and their direct reports to enable them to move from traditional ways of working to a more agile way of working.
• Work with the local management using agile methodology to ensure the customer experience is optimized across the full range of projects the company is conducting.
• Facilitate, follow up and maintain momentum on all MVP and NextGen actions.
• Co-ordinate, report on and analyze progress on all key projects.
• Manage all activities related to IT NextGen in Cairo and act as the key point of contact for global project management and workstream leaders/sponsors.
• Provide support on any other project activities as deemed necessary.

About Orange:

Orange is a French multinational telecommunications corporation. It has 266 million customers worldwide and employs 89,000 people in France, and 59,000 elsewhere. It is the tenth-largest mobile network operator in the world and the fourth largest in Europe after Vodafone, Telefónica and VEON. In 2015, the group had a revenue of €40 billion. The company's head office is located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. The current CEO is Stéphane Richard. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.

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