Project Manager L2 at Derivco

• Responsible for end-to-end delivery of medium to high complexity projects involving internal and external stakeholders and impacting more than one project team, a single business processes and IT system.

Areas of Responsibility

Project Management & Governance

• Determine project complexity and scope to enable effective project approval and prioritization.
• Create and maintain an internal or external stakeholder register and communication plan to ensure all project stakeholders are informed of relevant project information.
• Facilitate all project engagements to ensure the relevant stakeholders are informed and aligned on project information.
• Set up and maintain project governance and management templates to ensure alignment between project stakeholders and the availability of project management data.
• Develop and communicates a project schedule with dependencies, tasks, and milestones to create clarity on roles and responsibilities and project timelines.
• Receive, identify, record, and communicate all project risks, issues and dependencies and ensure appropriate preventative, corrective or mitigating actions are identified and included in project planning and governance documentation to ensure the impact on project delivery is minimised.
• Communicate changes to roadmaps and schedules with impact on delivery to relevant stakeholders to manage expectations.
• Monitor and track the project team's time logging to ensure time is logged correctly for accurate billing and costing.
• Track the on-time completion of tasks, manage risks and issues, and communicate with relevant stakeholders on project status to ensure the effective monitoring and control of projects.
• Manage project change requests and adjust project plans and governance documents accordingly to ensure the impact of changes is understood, communicated, and agreed to by stakeholders.
• Perform post-deployment activities to enable successful delivery into production environments.
• Complete project closure activities and facilitate lessons learnt sessions to Identify and recommend project management improvement opportunities

Knowledge, Practices and Continuous Improvement

• Reviews project management practices and identify process improvement opportunities to make recommendations that support continuous improvement.
• Reviews project management process performance measures to recommend improvement initiatives

Technical Competencies

PROJECT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT

• Able to define the estimated duration of assigned tasks with a clear understanding of how this supports what needs to be delivered.
• Demonstrates knowledge of how projects are managed; and how risks and dependencies are defined.

PROJECT FINANCE, RISK AND GOVERNANCE MANAGEMENT

• Skilled in project cost estimations, cost analysis and budgeting.
• Skilled in tracking various costs on a project, identifying financial risk and implementing preventative actions.
• Understands how to initiate the relevant procurement and legal processes.
• Sound knowledge of the risk identification and monitoring process for a project.
• Skilled in the mechanisms for governance and control in a project.
• Skilled in applying project change control processes and requirements.
• Knows the types of project risks and how these could be avoided or managed.

DRIVE (RESULTS ORIENTATION)

• Clarifies commitments/requirements to understand expectations.
• Takes ownership of commitments.
• Resilient in achieving outcomes despite setbacks.
• Can verify whether commitments are reasonable and achievable.
• Manages and creates visibility around expectations related to any commitment.
• Timeously inform stakeholders and dependent teams of impacts related to changes in commitments.

STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT

• Identifies the stakeholders for a business team or a business process and describes the impact and expectation of each stakeholder.
• Effectively engages and communicates with stakeholders.
• Identifies and addresses circumstances and challenges timeously with stakeholders.

COMMUNICATION

• Able to convey information verbally and in writing clearly to diverse audiences.
• Adapts content and tone to suit the target audience.
• Able to communicate technical concepts and information in simple, well-understood terms.
• Knows which communication medium will be the most appropriate and achieve the intended outcome.

PROBLEM SOLVING AND DECISION MAKING

• Identifies the relevant information needed to understand a problem.
• Breaks down problems into manageable parts to identify solutions.
• Determines root causes of problems and evaluates solutions that address them.
• Ensures appropriate due diligence before making decisions.

INNOVATE AND IMPROVE

• Demonstrates a continuous improvement and innovation mindset.
• Regularly reviews own and team performance to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Encourages others to experiment and propose improvements in work practices and/or new ideas.
• Can verify whether the intended benefits of improvements have been realised.

WORKS WITH CHANGE

• Recognises the need for change and supports change initiatives.
• Displays flexibility in adapting to changing customer/stakeholder needs and business requirements.
• Communicates the reason for the change and promotes the anticipated benefits

SKILLS:

• Executing Projects
• Project Management Scheduling
• Virtual Project Management
• Process Alignment
• Problem Solving
• Project Team Management
• Facilitation
• Stakeholder Management
• Communication
• Organizational Project Management
• Executing Projects
• Leading Project Teams
• Microsoft Projects
• Time Management

Requirements:

• Qualifications 
• Relevant 3-year tertiary qualification BSC/ BCom/ Business Diploma / Adv Management Diploma 

Certifications

• Minimum: Relevant PM certification, e.g., Certified associate in project management (CAPM) or Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent

Experience

• 4-6 years' experience in a project management role
• Advantageous: Project management experience in a software development or IT service delivery environment