Senior Agile Project Manager

Job Description

To plan, direct, and coordinate enterprise-wide projects to ensure project goals are accomplished, develop project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, risk identification, contingency plans, and resource allocation, while monitoring progress, running agile ceremonies, and providing mentorship on agile best practices.

Requirements

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree
• PMP or Prince certification
• Project Management or closely related Certified Scrum Master and Scaled Agile certification preferred
• 8-10 years experience working in a project environment, including 2-3 years with medium to high complexity projects
• 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

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 teams in terms of process, system, tools, methods, communication, integration, and successful team dynamics through weekly facilitation sessions
• Integrate with diverse stakeholders by engaging and facilitating with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs
• Build professional relationships through 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 budgets 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 project lifecycle and escalate any deviations
• Manage delivery of projects against agreed schedules and meet project requirements
• Manage project priorities effectively and ensure dependencies are catered for according to the project scope
• Ensure professional advice is accepted and implemented
• Identify project stakeholders, communicate their roles, define their level of participation, and map their communication needs and stakeholder engagement strategies throughout the project plan
• Structure and lead multidisciplinary and multi-level stakeholder engagements with the ability to synthesize and communicate in 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 the change management plan
• Ensure roles and strategies are defined, and behaviors and operations are understood
• Ensure clients are informed
• Lead and support the change management process together with the client
• Ensure satisfactory post-implementation reviews and perform 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