Project Coordinator at Salt South Africa

About the Role

• A leading South African retailer is running a large-scale Composable Commerce Re-Platforming Programme and needs a Project Coordinator to keep it operating smoothly. This role sits directly behind the Online Programme Manager – your job is to ensure that plans, risks, reporting, and governance are always current and accurate so that leadership focus stays on decisions, not data-gathering.
• This is a coordination and support role, not a delivery-accountable one. You won’t own squad outcomes, but you will own the operating rhythm that makes delivery possible.
• Due to the high volume of applications expected, candidates who have not received feedback within two weeks of applying should consider their application unsuccessful.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain the programme plan, milestone tracker, and cross-squad dependency map – flagging slippage and conflicts early
• Own the RAID log (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) – logging, chasing owners, and preparing for steering and Exco review
• Prepare agendas, minutes, and action logs for governance forums (steering committee, architecture review, cross-functional sync) and track actions to closure
• Support budget and Capex tracking, maintaining spend-to-plan views and flagging variances
• Manage the programme document repository (Confluence/SharePoint) – keeping specs, decisions, and architecture artefacts current and correctly versioned
• Coordinate the programme planning cadence: scheduling, pre-reads, consolidating inputs, capturing outputs
• Coordinate release-readiness activities across release trains with Delivery Managers
• Act as first point of contact for cross-functional coordination, triaging and routing where Programme Manager involvement isn’t required

Requirements

• 2-4 years in a project/programme coordination, PMO, or delivery support role – ideally within a digital, e-commerce, or technology programme
• Relevant qualification in project management
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint
• Working familiarity with Agile/SAFe and traditional project delivery methodologies
• Strong risk judgement – knows the difference between noise and an escalation
• Financial and vendor management exposure
• Confident stakeholder communicator across multiple levels

Contract Details

• Duration: 12 months
• Location: Cape Town – in office Monday to Thursday, remote Friday
• Rate: Market-related