Agile Project Manager
3 days ago
**Minimum Requirements**
**Education**:
- Matric
- Qualification in Project Management
- Qualification in Change Management (desirable)
- Degree or Diploma in Business Management, Computer Science, Business Science or Engineering would be advantageous
- PRINCE2, PMBOK, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Kanban
**Experience and Skills**:
- 8 -10 years’ solid Project Management experience, preferably managing IT & Business projects
- 3 or more years’ experience managing multiple teams across multiple projects
- Advanced budget management skills
- Exposure to Agile and alternative delivery methodologies
- Exposure to Business & Process Analysis Strong MS Office proficiency, Atlassian Suite (Jira, Jira Portfolio Roadmaps, Confluence)
- Exposure to short term insurance or financial sector IT project management
- Change management
**Job Specification**:
**Key Responsibilities and/or output areas include, but are not limited to**:
**Project Initiation**:
- Identify Stakeholders and establish Steering Committee with appropriate mandates
- Define project success criteria and socialise this throughout the duration of the project
- Consult broadly with clients (executives and delivery teams) and other stakeholders
- Build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration and innovation
- Develop Project Charter, change management plan and analyse business case
**Project Planning**:
- Collect, document and analyse requirements
- Define scope
- Understand dependencies
- Create product backlog
- Develop Project Management Plan
- Define activities
- Sequence activities
- Estimate activity resources and duration
- Develop schedule
- Estimate costs and determine budget
- Plan quality
- Develop HR plan
- Plan and map out all communications
- Plan and identify risks
- Perform qualitative and qualitative risk analysis
- Plan risk responses
- Plan procurement
**Project Execution Management**:
- Direct and manage general project execution
- Perform QA activities
- Acquire, Develop and Manage project team
- Distribute information
- Manage stakeholder expectations
- Conduct procurement as and when required
**Project Monitoring and Control**:
- Monitor and control project work
- Perform integrated change control
- Verify and control project scope
- Control project schedules
- Control costs
- Perform Quality Control
- Report on team and project performance
- Monitor and control risks
- Attend to all administration and reporting relating to procurement
- Prepare and conduct Steering Committee meetings with support from Product Owners
**Project Close-out**:
- Close Project or phase
- Ensure that all relevant documentation and reports have been disseminated
- Close procurement's
- Off-board team project team members and complete close-out
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