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