Project Manager Ii

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa 2U Full time

At 2U, we are all in on purpose. We are motivated by our mission - to eliminate the back row in education - and connected by our shared passion to deliver world-class digital education at scale. As the parent company of edX, the world's leading online learning platform, 2U powers more than 4,000 online higher education offerings - from free courses to full degrees. Together with more than 230 colleges, universities, and corporate partners, we are helping to unlock human potential.

**What We're Looking For**:
The Project Manager II is responsible for managing and executing strategic projects and programmes of work that underpin and are crucial in achieving the strategic mission and business objectives of 2U.

They offer strategic guidance to **leadership teams** on projects or programmes, drive the execution of projects to ensure alignment with global business objectives, and identify critical dependencies across projects.

The Project Manager II will act as the bridge between key business stakeholders and teams delivering the work. They are responsible for managing senior stakeholder expectations, mitigating risks, ensuring cross-functional alignment, and guiding teams in delivering project success for local and international work.

**Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To**:
**Programme Management (10%)**
- Manage a portfolio of projects or programmes of work.
- Responsible for delivering on both project success and overall programme success.
- Ensuring the link between the projects within an overarching programme of work is managed efficiently and all project inter-dependencies are accounted for.
- Manage resource planning across projects within a programme of work.
- Manage the programme risks and ensure the project leads are aware of potential roadblocks and that mitigation / contingency plans are developed and actioned.
- Accountable for consistent programme status updates sent to all project stakeholders on a consistent frequency.
- Determine the project management approach that best suits the programme to ensure efficiency and success of the projects and programme.

**Project Management (70%)**
- Manage high-risk and business critical projects, dealing with senior leadership team members as the Project Sponsors.
- Manage projects across offices or companies, working with inter-office stakeholders.
- Manage and execute strategic projects, including Inter-office projects, S&T projects, and cross-functional strategic initiatives
- Project Planning:

- Compile and align business on Stakeholder List / RACI to define project team roles and responsibilities.
- Create and accurately maintain project plans, indicating accurate tasks, milestones, timings, assignees, and task dependencies.
- Ensure that the project sponsor / product owner has supplied and thought about project success criteria ahead of project kick-off and provide guidance and support to help define and align on the criteria where required.
- Schedules and facilitates project kick-off meetings, to review project timings, agree to roles, and align the team on scope and project overview.
- Project Execution:

- Governance of project documentation in a structured manner on a Team Drive / Google Sheet.
- Compile project Risk Registers and escalate risks / issues where necessary by representing these on the Programme Management Risk Register.
- Escalate project risks and issues to project sponsors to ensure project success.
- Lead project meetings and distribute meeting outcomes to ensure that next steps are planned for and expectations are managed at all times.
- Clearly communicate project expectations, risks, project progress and updates to internal and external project stakeholders on projects.
- Manage project team task execution to ensure successful project delivery.
- Technical project management:

- Scope management and change request processes.
- Monitors the project variables (effort, scope etc.) against the plan and the project performance baseline.
- Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), setting up kick-off sessions, ensures relevant test cases are prepped and track progress and feedback reviews.
- Ensure business sign-off on UAT and Production deployment.
- Determine the project management approach to follow for the specific projects, within the constraints of 2Us PM framework (Agile and Waterfall).
- Finalise all activities to formally close the project, including closing off project codes, running project retrospectives and sending out the project closure survey.

**Strategic Support (10%)**
- Partners and guides the project sponsor / product owner in supporting the project vision.
- Is a sounding board to the project sponsor / product owner, offering project advice and suggestions on the best way forward.
- Has adequate business knowledge to guide on the next steps and ability to identify affected department and project interdependencies.
- Works closely with senior leadership to provide structure and implement process

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