Jobs in Egypt: Agile Project Lead at Orange

Orange is offering a full-time job opportunity as an IT Agile Project Lead to join the team in Cairo, Egypt for 2021. The job’s mission is to facilitate and energize 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.

1. Responsibilities:
2. Progress tracking and reporting on IT Next Gen activities
3. Facilitation of workshop sessions
4. Coaching of managers and supervisors to enable them to explore what agile means for them personally and their way of managing.
5. Delivery of MVP actions.
6. More agile customer centric way of working in OBS IT Egypt resulting in savings (money, time, people, materials) and greater customer satisfaction.
7.  To act as an agile coach , facilitator and educator to Egypt OBS IT leadership team and their direct reports to enable us to move from traditional ways of working to a more agile way of working.
8. To work with the local management using agile methodology to ensure customer experience is optimised across the full range of projects we are conducting
9. To facilitate, follow up and maintain momentum on all MVP and Next Gen actions.
10. To co-ordinate, report on and analyse progress on all key projects
11. To manage all activities related to IT Next Gen in Cairo – Act as the key point of contact for global project management and work stream leaders/sponsors.
12. To provide support on any other project activities as deemed necessary by the CMI site leader Cairo.

Requirements:

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/ facilitator/coach.
4. Flexible/ adaptable / willing to do what needs to be done.
5. Cultural awareness.
6. Curiosity/ Creativity/lots of ideas.
7. Sense of urgency.
8. Willingness to learn and develop on the job and off the job.
9. A model of good practice in agile mindset and way of working. 

Soft skills:

1. Ability to manage by influence using powers of persuasion and influence.
2. Ability to negotiate conflicting priorities.
3. Ability to work on own initiative without close supervision.
4. Ability to manage conflict.
5. Ability to work within ambiguity and in a matrix rather than hierarchy.
6. Strong written and verbal communications in English.
7. A knowledge of French would be a bonus.

Experience:

1. Project management expertise and track record.
2. Trained and experienced in working in agile mode and on agile projects.
3. IT technical understanding – ability to understand the principles of IT technologies in use.

About Orange:

Orange S.A., formerly France Télécom S.A., is a French multinational telecommunications corporation. It has 256 million customers worldwide and employs 95,000 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 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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