Duties Responsibilities
- Coordinate and lead weekly project meetings to facilitate communication and progress tracking.
- Create, update and disseminate comprehensive weekly project progress reports, including meeting minutes and action logs.
- Monitor project deliverables and implement corrective actions as necessary to ensure alignment with project goals.
- Manage project risks and issues, implementing strategies to mitigate potential challenges.
- Maintain meticulous control over scope changes, ensuring the business case is updated and obtaining necessary customer signoffs.
- Chair various project meetings, preparing essential documents such as minutes and reports for SteerCo, Weekly Status Stakeholder meetings, and Daily Stand-ups.
- Direct and motivate project teams across GroupTech to ensure the successful delivery of project scope within established time, cost, and quality parameters.
- Regularly update project plans to reflect evolving project requirements and timelines.
- Escalate issues to project sponsors, technical leads, and other relevant stakeholders in a timely manner.
- Update, submit, and manage change registers and change controls to track modifications to the project scope.
- Manage overall project scope, schedules, deliverables, communications, and risks while ensuring compliance with quality standards and adherence to relevant methodologies and templates (governance).
- Monitor key interdependencies and complexities, communicating them effectively across the business.
- Oversee the registration, administration, and execution of projects in alignment with company objectives.
- Provide comprehensive project documentation for all projects, ensuring transparency and accessibility of information.
- Ensure projects are delivered in accordance with the Project Management Methodology, project standards, and business strategy, meeting the specified business requirements.
- Provide necessary support to the Programme Manager, Senior Managers and Head of PMO as required.
- Manage key interdependencies and complexities (cross functional teams across organization) closely and ensure these are communicated and understood across Business and Group Tech
Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent NQF Level 7 Qualification in Business /Project Management/ Engineering
- Project Management certification (PMP®/Prince2®/ Agile or similar) – Advantageous
Experience
- A minimum of 5+ of relevant work experience
- Senior Project Management
- Proven track record in delivering complex cross-functional projects
- Proven track record in delivering OTT projects
Technical Competencies
- Project Management methodology (PMBOK / Prince2 / Agile)
- Managing multiple complex projects (cross functional teams)
- Project Governance
- RAIDs Management (Proactive and Reactive)
- Support Budget Development Management
- Support Change Management
- Support Benefits Realisation
- Stakeholder Management
- Effectively managing collaboration in cross functional teams
- Strong Communication Skills
Desired Skills:
- Instructing
- Learning Strategies
- Active Listening
- Coordination
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Persuasion
- Service Orientation