Agile Project Manager III

Minimum requirements:

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Professional Qualifications/Honours Degree
• Project Management qualification (preferred)
• PMP or Prince certification. 
• Programme Management certification (PGMP)
• Project Management or closely related Certified Scrum Master and Scaled Agile certification (ideal)
• 5-8 years working experience in project environment of which 5 years in a PM role

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

Typses of exposures:

• Industry trends
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Principles of financial management
• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
• Principles of project management
• Communication Strategies
• Decision-making process
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Financial management
• Information Technology concepts

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.