Senior Project Manager

4 weeks ago

Century City, South Africa GRACE YOUR HR NEEDS Full time

Agile Project Manager

Project Management Office

Region: Cape Town

**Job Purpose**

The Project Manager is responsible for project planning, resource allocation, risk management and ensuring that projects are scoped and planned, required resources are allocated, issue management (risks, dependencies, issues, assumptions), and the assigned projects are delivered within time and budget and to the required scope and quality. The Project Manager ensures communication on project progress between project stakeholders is consistent and appropriate. The Project Manager should possess strong facilitation skills, provide guidance to collaboratively create the best solutions, and have the ability to lead and adapt best practices and procedures to meet the needs of current projects.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Facilitate the agile process, including daily stand-ups, sprint refinement and planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Work closely with distributed cross-functional teams, including software engineers, data scientists, and stakeholders, to identify and prioritize project requirements and deliverables.
- Evaluate available resources against required resources.
- Manage project budgets and timelines, ensuring that resources are allocated effectively to meet project requirements.
- Attend and participate in client-related meetings.
- Schedule regular update sessions with project participants to obtain feedback on project progress (actual versus agreed timelines and milestones).
- Identify and manage project risks and issues, proactively identifying solutions to ensure that project delivery is not impacted.
- Communicate project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders at all levels, providing regular updates and ensuring that expectations are managed effectively.
- Check project progress between milestones with project participants.
- Arrange the internal delivery meeting to prepare the team for the client delivery meeting.
- Assist employees in managing their project time and ensure the optimal scheduling of employee time.
- Drive adherence to basic principles of solid SDLC with a specific focus on ensuring the quality of deliverables.

**Experience & requirements**
- Experience in Scrum Master role beneficial
- Minimum 5 years of Project Management experience
- Project Management specific certification
- Advanced level MS - Excel skills
- Intermediate level MS - Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook skills
- Credit Risk Industry / Financial services / Software Services Knowledge
- Proven track record of mitigating risks within SDLC and dealing with impediments
- Project Management Life Cycle
- Experience using JIRA and the SAFe framework would be advantageous
- Experience within Product Life Cycle and Product Development Cycle would be advantageous
- Practical software development experience would be considered hugely advantageous

**Desired Soft skills**
- Excellent communication (verbal and written) and servant leadership skills
- Be innovative and creative in providing alternative solutions or ideas
- Proven record of problem-solving abilities and conflict facilitation
- Excellent organisational skills

**Behavioural Competencies**
- Proactive and takes initiative
- Dynamic and energetic
- High attention to detail (accuracy imperative)
- Strong sense of accountability
- Team player, with well-developed interpersonal skills and able to self-manage
- High degree of planning and organising skills
- Excellent time management skills
- Analysis and Problem solving
- Numerical ability
- Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written)
- Growing and learning mindset

**Other**
- Position based in Cape Town
- Driver’s licence essential
- Some ad-hoc travel to clients nationally and internationally (Africa, Middle East)

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: R780,000.00 - R800,000.00 per year

Application Question(s):

- Are you an SA citizen? If not do you have a work permit?

**Education**:

- Bachelors (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Project Management: 5 years (required)
- Credit Risk Industry/ Software Services Knowledge: 3 years (required)

License/Certification:

- Project Management certification (required)

Application Deadline: 2023/09/15

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