Project Manager 2

Our client in Johannesburg has a Permanent vacancy for a Project Manager who possesses and applied advanced in-depth knowledge, skills and experience of own discipline through degree/certification or equivalent work experience and has broad knowledge of related disciplines to completion of complex significant assignments

• Degree/Professionally Skilled Level
• Centre of excellence participation
• Improving best practices
  Has broad knowledge of related disciplines to completion of complex/significant
• Contributes to process/solution improvements
• Well-developed leadership qualities
• 4 - 8 years’ experience

• Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects (typically with direct business impact and firm deadlines)
• Ensures that realistic project plans are maintained and ensures regular and accurate communication to stakeholders
• Adopts appropriate project management methods and tools whether predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approach
• Ensures Quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure
• Manages the change control procedure and ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are signed off
• Provides effective leadership to the project team and takes appropriate action where team performance deviates from agreed tolerances

COMPETENCIES

• Must be willing to be onsite at the client, as and when required
• Good relationship with the Account Managers
• Once the FoO and PO has been signed off, need to have a handover session with the Account Manager to ensure they understand all the detail in the FoO as well as the estimates
• Assist the PDM with Invoicing and Revenue Recognition as and when required
• Ensure that the team log their time/hours on JIRA per project
• Ensure that TeamDeck is updated every week to ensure the correct projects and timelines are loaded
• Update the Time Lost report on a Weekly Basis
• Need to ensure that the FSD's are completed and signed off
• Responsible for setting up the Sprint Planning Sessions and Retrospect's
• Need to setup and attend daily stand-ups
• Need to compile minutes of meetings and distribute
• Update weekly Project Status Presentations/Dashboards
• Compile Project Schedules and ensure it's updated at all times and distributed to the team and Stakeholders
• Send out Daily Status Updates (if required and depending on the project)
• Follow up with the Project Team on tasks/deliverables/estimates
• Ensure that all Project Documentation/Artefacts are loaded onto SharePoint/Teams
• Ensure that all project communication happens via Teams
• Manage the Onboarding of project team members and obtaining their AB Numbers (Required for ABSA projects)
• High-level understanding of what the Project/Business is about
• Pull the team's time-logged reports from JIRA
• Must be part of the PM CoE
• Ensure that proper documentation is compiled and signed off for any deployments/releases
• Send out release notes after each deployment
• Assist with arranging support during or after deployments

Complexity

• Variety: Responsible for monitoring, measuring, adopting and adapting processes, tools and techniques to perform extensive range of complex, professional work tasks. Undertakes work which requires the application of fundamental principles in a wide and often unpredictable range of contexts
• Difficulty: Work on moderate to complex projects. Tasks are difficult and challenging
• Complexity of projects:
• Medium size Project Teams
• Team members still need to gain experience and need coaching and guidance
• Resource availability is a constraint
• Project has an impact on Client deliverables and possible external parties/stakeholders
• Moderate changes to technology infrastructure
• Project Size - Medium (cost R500 000 – R2 000 000)
• Understands the relationship between own specialism and wider customer/organizational requirements