Digital Project Manager

3 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Oryx + Crake Full time

We are seeking an experienced and knowledgeable digital project manager to join our dynamic marketing team. As a key member of our organisation, you will play a crucial role in managing and overseeing digital and social media projects from conceptualisation to completion. A digital project manager's role is to plan, delegate, track, review and measure results of the campaign. They also need to ensure that the goals and objectives of the campaign or digital project are met and that clients are able to see a valuable return on their investment.

**Responsibilities**:
Creating and communicating a project plan, schedule and budget.
Brief the social digital team with the deliverables that are required by the clients.
Assigning tasks and deadlines.
Ensuring that projects are running according to the brief and regularly getting updates on the status of the projects.
Manage the project scope and ensure that the budget aligns to the project scope.
Deliver operational excellence with the ability to anticipate potential issues and dependencies, highlight project risks, and manage and change against any business and technical requirements by effectively suggesting solutions or contingency plans at the appropriate stage of projects.
Ability to schedule, track and prioritise the work correctly against critical deadlines and milestones
Be the custodian of the change management process. i.e. identifying scope creep and ensuring any changes/new requirements are documented, agreed and updated into the existing project plan.
Effectively communicate the project status to both internal and external stakeholders during meetings, working through project gantts and key stakeholder deliverables.
Ensure tasks, jobs and costs are set up correctly within the internal trafficking and timekeeping tools, and therefore resource and client profitability can be reported accurately.
Presenting post project analysis reports of the total project budget against the total project cost (based on timesheet hours) ensures that all learnings form part of future briefs.

**Qualifications**:
**Education and experience**: Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, or a related field. 2-5 years of proven experience in account or project management.

**Technical skills**: Proficiency in Chase Software. Have an understanding of digital marketing platforms, such as social media (Meta, X, Linkedin, Snapchat, YouTube etc). Strong IT skills and experience - presentation, word processing and spreadsheets.
Analytical skills

**Communication skills**: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex data in an understandable format.

**Problem-solving**: Creative problem-solving skills and the ability to work under tight deadlines.



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