Project Manager - Cape Town
Salary Negotiable
Cape Town, Western Cape
Cape Town,
Western Cape
more than 14 days ago
23-05-2018 2:07:11 PM
18-07-2018 2:07:11 PM
A leading dev house has an exciting job opportunity for a Project Manager to join their team in Cape Town. You will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of small to medium sized, low to medium complexity projects
Your key job responsibilities as the Project Manager in Cape Town will include:
- Accountable for end-to-end project planning and a Project Management Plan
- Scope, Communication, Risk & Issues, Cost and Stakeholder Management
- Responsible for the Charter and defining and agreeing the high-level scope, milestones and initial risks early in the project.
- Responsible for defining the Project Benefits, Measurements and Critical Success Factors in the Charter
- Responsible for defining roles and responsibilities for the project team and stakeholders (RACI) in the Charter
- Responsible for setting up the Project Governance and Systems to effectively manage the project
- Accountable for creating, implementing and maintaining the Project Schedule and obtaining approval from relevant stakeholders
- Accountable for proactively tracking the end-to-end project schedule and driving corrective action where required
- Accountable for stakeholder management regarding the project
- Responsible for proactively managing risks, issues and dependencies on the project
- Responsible for proactively managing change - including Time, Cost and Scope changes
- Responsible for executing on the Project Communication Plan and ensuring the relevant stakeholders are kept informed
- Responsible for tracking project decisions made on the project
- Responsible for monitoring costs on the project, as required by the Business Unit
- Responsible for supporting Product Owner in quality product delivery
- Responsible for execution and communication of Deployment Plan (Pre-Go live, Go Live and Post Go live tasks)
- Responsible for arranging training for production teams to allow them to support the product / project after go-live
- Accountable for measuring the delivery of project objectives and benefits, including Critical Success Factors as defined in the Charter
Requirements for this Project Manager job in Cape Town:
- Relevant tertiary qualification
- Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) or Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent
- Excellent Communicator - written and verbal
- MS Office and MS Project
- EPM experience an advantage
- Agile experience is an advantage
- Experience in the end-to-end delivery of small to medium sized, low to medium complexity projects
- 3 years Project Management experience OR 2 years project management experience and 1 year relevant
- Experience in a software or IT environment
- Basic understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) or IT Delivery Cycle
- Basic knowledge of software or IT project management
- Exposure to 1 or more PM Methodologies
If you meet the above requirements for this Project Manager job in Cape Town, please send your CV through. If you do not receive any feedback within 7 days of your application, please be advised that you were not successful in making the shortlist