Job Description

We Want You:

You Bring:

• Bachelor’s Degree/National Diplomas.
• Relevant Project Management Certifications PMP, Prince II, Scrum Master, etc.
• 2 - 3 years’ experience in Software Development Project Management.
• 2 – 3 years’ experience with full product lifecycle with understanding of development lifecycle and various technology methodologies that support that lifecycle.
• Sound experience in Software Development Lifecycle and Implementation.
• Excellent planning, organizational and prioritization skills and be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

W hat You’ll Do:

Ensuring Project Management:

• Builds and maintains strong business relations with existing and prospective internal customers to interpret all individual requirements.
• Reviews changes in legal and procedural requirements affecting the business or projects.
• Validates product requirements and specifications with various departmental team members to understand the business requirements and facilitate handover to the development team.
• Analyses information and business systems to make recommendations for improvement of processes and systems.
• Co-ordinates, arranges and manages daily/weekly and monthly meetings with subordinates, management and business stakeholders as required.
• Is accountable for project status reporting as defined in a Communication Plan or as required by the Business Unit.
• Is accountable for proactively tracking the end-to-end project schedule and driving corrective action where required.
• Is accountable for end-to-end project planning and a Project Management Plan – including plans for Scope, Communication, Risk & Issues, Dependencies, Cost and Stakeholder Management.
• Assists Team Lead in creating and updating of Team Capacity Plans.
• Assists Team Lead in reviewing team backlogs and re-prioritisation with stakeholders.
• Identifies and schedules project deliverables, milestones, and required tasks.
• Adheres to best project management practices and methodologies such as Professional Management Institute standards or similar.
• Proactively manages change - including time, cost and scope changes.
• Tracks project decisions made on the project.
• Assists Business Units in getting any required benefits monitoring and reporting in place.
• Participates in all areas of the software development life cycle and provides technical support to other company personnel.
• Manages internal business processes or systems/application development projects.
• Liaises and manages external resources and suppliers.
• Ensures appropriate procedures and processes are followed.
• Participates in design control activities, and monitors, evaluates and ensures the completion of tasks and projects.

Ensures Effective Reporting:

• Reports on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities.
• Determines the frequency and content of status reports from the project and program team, analyse results and troubleshoot problem areas.
• Provides status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership.
• Defines success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project and program life cycle.

Ensures Effective Communication:

• Communicates any project risk and issues including timing, budget, resources, scope and more to IT management.
• Collaborates closely with the Senior Project Manager and PMO Leader on enterprise projects.
• Communicates with various departmental team members to understand the business requirements.