We have an opening for an experienced IT Project Manager capable of delivering elements of both conventional project management and agile.

The Project Manager is expected to lead our multi-faceted project team of architects, analysts, testers, and developers in delivering a large complex project in a demanding and fast-paced customer environment.

We’d prefer someone based in Johannesburg, but we can consider someone based elsewhere in South Africa as well.

Qualification Required:

  • Grade 12

Preferred Qualifications:

  • IT Related Degree/ Diploma

Experience Required:

  • Minimum 8+ years of full-time project management experience.
  • Exposure to both conventional project management and Agile / Scrum.
  • PMP or comparable industry-standard certification.
  • Telecoms and specifically call centre experience preferable.

Duties/ Responsibilities:

  • Coordinate delivery team Sprint cadence (planning, stand-ups, retro’s and backlog grooming, etc.). No need to be intimately familiar with the technical detail – the delivery team is competent; however firm grasp is required of the cadence and momentum of the overall process.
  • Maintain sprint artifacts.
  • Coordinate the release process.
  • Track the progress of work items and the direction of the project overall.
  • Maintain focus on correct priorities direction within the bigger picture and project vision.
  • Actively drive risk mitigation and removal of blockers.
  • Track overall project risks, issues, and decisions.
  • Partake in project delivery across the spectrum and support / contribute where possible.
  • Partaking in stakeholder engagement > into the customer audiences (business, technical, user representative audiences), internal audiences to our own organisation, and vendors.
  • Coordinate and facilitate the expected standard project meetings, updates, and check-ins.
  • Formal reporting to customers and internal organisation.
  • Project team resource management.
  • Team resource and capacity planning with internal organisation.
  • Vendor engagement and administration.
  • Contractor engagement and administration.
  • Project cost accounting and financial administration (billing and debtors etc.)

Work environment:

  • Hybrid working model

Desired Skills:

  • Systems Analysis
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Programming
  • C#
  • Java
  • SQL
  • HTML

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