Senior Agile Project Manager

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Nedbank Full time

**Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact**
- 132761 - Thembi Mtshali- Application Closing Date: 18 March 2024- Job Family- Project, Process and Product
- Career Stream- Projects
- Leadership Pipeline- Manage Self: Professional

**Job Purpose**
- To plan, direct and co-ordinate the activities of enterprise-wide projects to ensure that project goals are accomplished and to develop project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans and allocation of available resources, in line with the business strategy. The Project Manager will also monitor and report on project and deliverable progress, run agile ceremonies, and provide mentorship and coaching on agile best practices. The Project Manager will also ensuring the team is working on the right tasks at the right time, working closely with the product manager to translate epics, stories, and other items on the sprint list into actionable tasks for the delivery team.**Responsibilities**:

- Ensure successful implementation of Agile in software projects with improved quality in accordance with business needs and strategic goals.
- Provide expert level guidance to software project team in terms of process, system, tools, methods as well as communication, integration, and successful team dynamics through weekly facilitation sessions
- Integrate with diverse stakeholders by engaging and facilitate with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs
- Engage and facilitate with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs
- Build professional relationships though engagement and regular communication and feedback with all stakeholders using quality metrics and project status reports as drivers
- Ensure accurate cost estimation based on coverage of client requirements and project scope.
- Ensure project budget are managed within project scope.
- Ensure projects are delivered on target within due date, budget and according to scope and project governance.
- Ensure traceability of defined benefits throughout the lifecycle of the project and escalate any deviations.
- Ensure management of scope, including coverage of client requirements, are created based on estimations.
- Manage delivery of project against agreed schedule. Meet project requirements.
- Manage project priorities effectively and ensured dependencies are catered for according to the project scope.
- Ensure professional advice accepted and implemented.
- Identify project stakeholders, communicate their roles, define their level of participation in project, and map their communication needs and stakeholder engagement strategies throughout the project plan. Be able to structure and lead multidisciplinary and multi-level stakeholder engagements with the ability to synthesize and communicate in a non-technical language
- Ensure each stakeholder group is actively managed through the change cycle.
- Ensure business change impact is conducted across process, systems, and technology in accordance with change management plan.
- Ensure roles and strategies are defined, and behaviors and operations are understood.
- Ensure clients are informed.
- Ensure the change management process is led and supported together with the client.
- Ensure satisfactory post implementation review and performing retrospectives/inspect & adapt sessions as required.
- Ensure client needs are accurately captured in scope.
- Ensure sufficient resource allocations.
- Manage delivery of large and complex projects according to prevailing project management methodology.
- Conduct effective resource negotiation and allocation.

**People Specification**
- Essential Qualifications - NQF Level- Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
- Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree
- Preferred Qualification- Project Management- Essential Certifications- PMP or Prince certification. Programme Management certification (PGMP)
- Preferred Certifications- Project Management or closely related Certified Scrum Master and Scaled Agile certification- Minimum Experience Level- 8-10 years experience working in a project environment of which 2-3 years working with medium to high complexity projects

**Technical / Professional Knowledge**
- Relevant regulatory knowledge
- Industry trends
- Relevant software and systems knowledge
- Research methodology
- Principles of financial management
- Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
- Principles of project management
- Communication Strategies
- Decision-making process
- Governance, Risk and Controls
- Behavioural Competencies- Decision Making
- Influencing
- Planning and Organizing
- Work Standards
- Applied Learning
- Customer Orientation
- Earning Trust
- **_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566_

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