Junior Project Manager at Badger Holdings (Pty) Ltd

Description

• We are looking for someone to assist our development team to drive new projects to completion. The successful candidate will need to have a unique blend of structured thinking, excellent communication, problem solving ability and eagerness to learn.  This is an exceptional opportunity to be a meaningful part of a fast-growing team that cares about its people and its purpose.

Requirements

Job purpose

• To assist in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling new and existing dotsure.co.za projects and small developments.

Duties and responsibilities

• Monitor the progress of all relevant dotsure.co.za projects and report back to stakeholders.
• Enforce deadlines and inject urgency when necessary.
• Liaise with relevant parties to discuss new concepts and ideas and offer insight into existing projects.
• Create product and system specification documents in order to assist the development teams to understand the requirements from business.
• Liaise with the development teams and communicate the technical constraints and challenges to the relevant parties.
• Articulating, queuing and prioritizing bug fixes and small developmental tasks.
• Assist with analysing data, conducting market research and compiling research reports.

General skills and qualifications    

• Excellent organisational skills, ability to multi-task.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail and deadlines (essential).
• Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships at all levels, including during difficult or challenging circumstances.
• Ability to think ahead and anticipate needs before they arise.
• Ability to exercise discretion in dealing with confidential or sensitive matters.
• A minimum of 1 year experience in a projects or dev environment is required.
• Relevant qualification in project/business management is advantageous.
• A general understanding of Agile Development methodology.

IT proficiencies

• Excellent knowledge of MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint).
• Experience using Monday.com, JIRA, Trello or similar task management software will be advantageous