Junior Project Manager

1 week ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Uyandiswa Full time

To deliver projects successfully within approved budget, timelines and meeting quality whilst ensure alignment of projects and project outcomes to the business, IT strategies and objectives. Additionally, the role will achieve desired outcomes through best practices in project management as well as manage and grow relationships with business and solution providers.

**Junior Project Manager is accountable for**:

- Managing relationships with the project stakeholders and customers
- Creating and maintaining a consistent, coherent project plan that can be used to guide project execution and project control
- Planning, defining the scope of the project and controlling changes
- Formalising acceptance of the scope by stakeholders
- Planning, defining the schedule of the project and controlling changes
- Planning resources, estimating cost, allocating project budget and controlling changes to the budget
- Maintain quality planning, quality assurance and quality control for the project
- Identifying, documenting and assigning project roles, responsibilities and reporting relationships
- Ensuring timely and appropriate generation and dissemination of project information
- Identifying, analysing and managing project risks

**Acquire & Implement**
- Effectively conduct research into and make use of appropriate existing intellectual property as relevant to assigned project tasks Deliver & Support
- Deliver projects in keeping with cost, quality, schedule and agreed criteria
- Identify, assess and manage project risks, which could result in time or cost overruns or failure to deliver products which are fit for purpose
- Optimise total utilisation for all project resources
- Ensure the participation and commitment of project stakeholders to project activities / reviews as required
- Ensure timely dissemination of appropriate project information to stakeholders
- Control changes to project scope, schedule and budget
- Collect and disseminate performance information - status reporting, progress measurement and forecasting
- Manage responses to risks and changes to risks over the course of the project
- Generate, gather and disseminate information to formalize project completion
- Ensure that projects are formally closed and, where appropriate, subsequently reviewed, and that lessons learned are captured and published

**Monitor & Evaluate**
- Monitor costs, timescales and resources used, and take appropriate action where these deviate from agreed tolerances
- Evaluate overall project performance on a regular basis to ensure that the project will satisfy relevant quality requirements
- Monitor specific project results to ensure compliance with relevant quality standards and identify ways to eliminate unsatisfactory performance

**Education and Experience Required**
- Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (required)
- BSc degree in Information Systems or related field, compulsory
- Recognised Project Management qualification (PMP/ PRINCE2), compulsory
- Minimum 2 years’ Project Management experience
- Minimum 2 years’ Financial Services Industry experience
- Minimum 2 years’ IT/ IT Consulting experience
- Minimum 1 years’ Consulting/ Change Management experience, advantageous
- Business Case Management experience, compulsory
- Exposure in Benefits Management
- Exposure in Change Management
- Exposure in Project Management
- Exposure in Stakeholder Management
- Exposure and Knowledge of Banking and Financial Services business

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