Openings at Media24 (Pty) Ltd

Media24 has a permanent vacancy for a Project Manager at its head office in Cape Town. The role can also operate remotely. The successful candidate will report to the IT manager and will be responsible for the successful management of various IT projects.

What will you do?

• Establish and implement best practice project management processes, and ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget and within scope
• Formulate project requirements, investigate viability of projects, identify stakeholder needs and expectations and develop project scope accordingly;
• Directing and monitoring work efforts, identifying resource needs, performing quality reviews and escalating timeline issues appropriately;
• Track, analyze and report on the progress of projects
• Ensure the optimal allocation and use of resources for projects, and manage, mentor and guide the Project team;
• Collaborate with business owners and IT architecture to maintain business alignment and achieve architectural compliance;
• Monitor and proactively mitigate project risks;
• Develop and manage the budgets associated with the relevant projects;
• Manage change control appropriately
• Remain up to date with relevant technologies and project management methodologies.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, BCom or other related fields or equivalent work experience.
• Formal Project Management qualifications and certifications like a diploma in project management from the FTI, PMBOK, PMP, PRINCE2 Certifications etc will count in the applicant’s favor.

Experience:

• At least 8 years relevant project management experience with a proven track record of successful SAP and other IT related projects
• Experience with and exposure to SDLC, Agile and ASAP methodologies

 Preferred Skill Requirements:

• Strong Leadership abilities including the ability to manage and resolve conflict
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• High attention to detail and results oriented
• Pressure resilience
• Business acumen

Closing Date: 23rd, May 2022

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Duties will include the following:

• Writing authoritative and breaking news reports and articles for Daily Sun newspaper and dailysun.co.za.
• Work with the news editor to ensure a lively and relevant homepage.
• Occasionally tell stories through videos and audio.
• Writing quick news, aggregate news content for Daily Sun’s growing online publication.
• Creating and maintaining an extensive network of news contacts.
• Making original and feasible suggestions for stories.
• Writing authoritative and breaking celebrity, community and national news reports and articles.
• Be able to work under pressure and after hours.
• Tweet, post on Facebook and other social media platforms while out on stories or functions.
• Be able to use different content management systems in order to file stories on different platforms.

The successful candidate should meet the following criteria:

• At least two year’s experience and preferably a degree;
• A keen news sense and intuition for newsworthy items;
• The ability and self-motivation to deliver reports on a daily basis at the pace required by a daily newspaper;
• A valid driver's licence.

Closing Date: 20th, May 2022

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Responsibilities:

Backend Development

• Excellent programming skills in PHP (Ruby, .NET and other additional languages a plus)
• A passion for writing maintainable code with a deep understanding of OOP, design patterns, Test/Behaviour-driven Development, and data structures
• Experience building full-stack web applications with frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, and Rails (Angular, Vue, and React a plus)
• Experience with Test/Behaviour-Driven development and writing Unit Test (PHPUnit, Codeception, RSpec, Cucumber etc)
• Experience designing RESTful, Websocket and GraphQL APIs and other service layer components
• Experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, MySQL etc)
• Strong Unix skills (Linux, FreeBSD, and/or macOS preferred) 
• Experience using code versioning tools such as Git and branching models like Gitflow
• Assist with development efforts and crisis management where needed while identifying root cause and identifying preventative measures
• Researches and maintain a high awareness of industry issues and trends, particularly in regard to accessibility, usability, and emerging technologies
• Code reviews of team members' output to ensure it is satisfactory in regards to:

1. Code quality
2. Task efficiency
3. The accuracy of expected deliverable

• Approving pull requests and managing releases

Cloud Development

• Experience with AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure and SaaS technologies
• DevOps experience with using containerization tools such as Docker (or similar) for provisioning and automated deployments (CircleCI, Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, Travis etc)
• Exposure to architectures supporting applications built using AWS S3, EC2 and CloudFront
• Knowledge of AWS technologies and services such as S3, Cognito, SNS, API Gateway, SES, SQS, DynamoDB
• An understanding of Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud solutions 

Quality Assurance

• Coordinates with Central QA for Load Testing / Code Profiling to meet Quality Performance Metrics
• On a projects' inception, assess and recommend software architecture design in the most proficient and cost-effective manner
• Review and validate Scope of Work & Memorandum of Understanding documents to ensure they are accurate, feasible, and correct in their technological approach as per the documented Swipe processes and standards

People

• Leading by example to promote departmental unity and instil a culture of teamwork 
• Assist and advise team members on coding best practices in a supportive, motivating, and fact-driven way
• Provide leadership to Backend developers  in a fashion that supports the Swipe iX's culture, mission, and values
• Provide strategic leadership to architects, engineers, and technology professionals to promote business-driven thinking and decision making on daily task delivery
• Set up KPIs for team members and evaluated them on a monthly basis
• Grow team members’ individual skills that result in satisfying their KPIs
• Retain and motivate team members by means of bi-annual Health Checks as well as close mentorship to determine pain points, roadblocks, and general job satisfaction
• Track and raise any concerns with team members that perform poorly in regards to

1. Unsatisfactory communication in terms of daily tasks and deliverables
2. Time wastage due to miscommunication or poor investigation/underestimation of tasks
3. Number of development cycles required to satisfy deliverables and complete the task to a satisfactory level
4. Satisfactory Definition of Done on deliverables

Managerial

• Conduct and report to the executive team on the results of team one on ones
• Monitor and report on high-level adherence to the business goals of team members and department performance
• Provide technical vision, direction, clearly communicate business & project goals to ensure the development team is aligned with the company strategy
• Discussing technical solutions with clients and providing innovative new ideas for solutions