IT Project Manager

Recruiter:

Carlysle Human Capital

Job Ref:

DBN000587-AD

Date posted:

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Location:

CapeTown, South Africa

Salary:

Negotiable and market related

SUMMARY:
Our client in beautiful SOMERSET WEST is looking for an intermediate level Project Manager to manage single projects of high complexity, multiple projects of low complexity or assist a senior project manager in managing a large project of high complexity.

POSITION INFO:

Role Expectations:

A mid level Project Manager will be expected cover the following project knowledge areas in the project/s they are managing; Integration, Scoping, Project costings, Scheduling, Quality management, Resource Management, Risk Management, Communications management, Procurement, Stakeholder engagement and project closure. A mid level project manager will be expected to report direct to the head of PMO and communicate direct with the Operations Director. A project manager will be expected to mentor entry level and junior project managers during their management of projects at Interfront. A project manager will be expected to contribute to growing the efficiency of the Project Management Office and to offer suggestions in ways to improve the ways of working within the Project Management Office.

Responsibilities/Tasks of a project manager

Collaborate with Business Analyst, Systems Engineer and project stakeholders to determine and agree on project scope.
Ensure roles, responsibilities and deliverables for each project discipline/member are defined.
Facilitate High-level software design sessions.
Host project effort estimation sessions
Define a WBS and create a project plan in MS Project or appropriate tool
Setup JIRA projects and create Jira tickets to carry out the defined plan
Define a workflow that suits the project environment and is agreed on by project members
Project communication of project plans, project meeting minutes, project reporting.
Facilitate regular project updates with project stakeholder
Facilitate regular project meetings like daily stand-ups, sprint retrospectives, risk and issue resolution, change management, status check-ins
Manage and control of project schedule using JIRA and MS Project
Demonstrate collaboration with System Engineers, Architects and Team Leads to understand the none functional and quality requirements needed to deliver your project
Leading and motivating the project team
Demonstrate the willingness to understand the product the project you are managing is building
With assistance from your peers, managing of third party vendors and their availability to perform tasks as per your project plan.
Building ongoing relationships with line management and other company departments required to deliver the end product.
Understand the software release process and become enabled to manage multiple releases to the client.
Ensure creation of functional and nonfunctional documentation
Documenting of Software release plans

Minimum Requirements:

Relevant tertiary qualification in Engineering or Information Sciences.
2-4 years technical Project management experience
2 years+ of project management experience in a software development environment
Project management certification
Intermediate level of understanding of Agile Principles
Intermediate level of understanding of SDLC
Intermediate user of MS Project or similar software and MS Office applications.
A novice level of Software design principles

Skills and Knowledge Requirements:

Intermediate level of experience in Project Administration
Intermediate level of understanding of the PMBOK Process Groups and Knowledge Areas
Experience working within a software development environment
Demonstrate experience in leading and motivating a project team
Have the ability to perform scenario based analysis
Having the ability to think on your feet and posing leading questions to resolve issues

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