Project Manager - (PERMANENT)

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POSITION INFO:

Job description:

• The person will typically be allocated to a project with budget of more than R5million to deliver over a 12-36 month period with a medium/large sized team of resources (10-15 full time people).
• The person will typically manage cross-functional level change initiatives which introduce substantial change where there is some resistance to change and the project priority and urgency is high.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Project Definition, Inception and Kick-off (kick-off sessions; definition of charter; facilitate definition of requirements and user stories).
• Project Planning (scoping, conceptual sprint planning and development; project and work stream definition; sizing and estimating; sprint, release and milestone management).
• Project Financial and Cost management (accurate budgeting, actuals tracking, forecast projections, monitoring and control of expenses, invoicing and payment).
• Project Time and Cost management (budget definition, monitoring and control; time recording and costing; Invoicing and payments; cost containment).
• Managing Project Scope (understanding project scope and product backlog; monitoring scope).
• Project level Risk, Issue and Decision management (including Dependency management and escalation).
• Project Reporting (reporting on status, financials, schedule, risk, blockers and issues, quality; reporting on metrics including burn up/down charts, team velocity; updating Agile/PMC reporting and management tools).
• Defining and implementing the project’s Governance framework (review and sign-offs, decision-making, steerco management, change control and content review, management of tolerances, closure and lessons learned).
• Quality Management (ensuring projects deliverables meet the requirements and the appropriate quality. Includes ceremonies such as: team retrospectives, attending Scrum-of-Scrum sessions, managing dependencies, blockers/ impediments and resourcing).
• Stakeholder management (ability to work with external and internal stakeholders across divisions at all levels demonstrating strong interpersonal skills).
• Project Success management (agree and regularly review project measures of success ensuring projects deliverables meet the programme requirements and the appropriate quality).
• Support implementation of the Agile way of working. Adherence to the Agile framework, governance, standards for reporting and Tools (JIRA, Confluence).

Qualifications and Experience:

• Relevant 3+ year degree or equivalent qualification.
• Certificate or Diploma in Project Management from an industry recognized training institution. Agile certification recommended.
• At least 10-15 years’ experience in managing projects and/or change initiatives.
• At least 5 years’ experience working in the Financial Services and/or Insurance industry to demonstrate understanding of the business context.
• Knowledge of, and experience in, the implementation of industry regulatory and compliance changes beneficial.
• Knowledge of, and experience in, data driven and/or digital enablement initiaitives.
• Sound experience working with stakeholders at different levels across organisations/divisions; both on-shore and off-shore, face-to-face and remote.
• Demonstrate experience in the application of industry standard project management methodologies and processes; and working in an Agile environment with Scrum method knowledge strongly preferred.
• Experience using the Tools and Techniques in alignment with the agreed group’s ways of working. Including but not limited to, PPO, JIRA, Confluence, Portfolio for JIRA and SharePoint.
• Demonstrate experience and sound knowledge of the system development lifecycle processes and methods from business concept to deployment stages.
• System development life-cycle knowledge and solution implementation experience required. Understanding of the integration between business strategy delivery in terms of data, technology, people and process.
• Ability to act as Scrum Master supporting the scrum teams to ensure the delivery of sprint goals and measurable business value. Includes: partnering with the business Product Owner determining the product backlog and the on-going refinement and prioritization of the backlog that ensures the availability of work for the development team; proactively work to eliminate blockers/impediments and other barriers for the development team; guide the team members on best practices and facilitate scrum ceremonies.

Skills:

• Well-honed MS Office skills.
• Agile and Scrum Method and Tool experience (JIRA, JIRA Portfolio and Confluence suggested).
• MS Project skills and Project Management Tool experience (PPO suggested).
• Facilitation skills.
• Financial and business acumen.
• Foster and support the Agile approach. Demonstrate a growth mindset in support of the Agile values and Group’s culture: Trust, Respect, Collaborative, Self-organisation, Adapt, Transparent, Courage, Focus, Openness, Servant Leadership.

Knowledge

• Deep understanding of project management methods, techniques and tools.
• Deep understanding of agile ways of working, techniques and tools.
• Deep understanding of the system development lifecycle and frameworks for business solution delivery. Incudes waterfall, iterative and agile methods.
• Understands architectural considerations in order to effectively factor them into planning, decisions and recommendations and effectively communicate.
• Familiarity with change management disciplines including stakeholder management, communication and business readiness.
• Ability to identify project implications based on an understanding of systems, processes and business.

Personal Attributes:

• Directs work - Contributing through others
• Manages complexity - Contributing through others
• Plans and aligns - Contributing through others
• Optimises work processes - Contributing through others

Core Competencies

• Being resilient - Contributing through others
• Collaborates - Contributing through others
• Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others
• Customer focus - Contributing through others
• Drives results - Contributing through others

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