Introduction: Losika Consulting is seeking a skilled Junior Project Manager or Senior Project Coordinator ready to move into a Project Management role to join our team on a contract basis. This role involves planning, tracking, monitoring, and controlling small to medium projects to ensure they are completed on time, within budget, and to the agreed quality standards. The Project Manager will collaborate closely with the product manager to translate epics, stories, and other items on the sprint list into actionable tasks for the delivery team. Job Purpose: To plan, track, monitor, and control activities of small projects, ensuring project goals/objectives are accomplished within the prescribed time frame, agreed quality, and funding parameters enabled through our banking client's project methodologies and people management. The Project Manager will ensure the team works on the right tasks at the right time, working closely with the product manager. Key Responsibilities: Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in cultural building initiatives (e.g., staff surveys). Participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives to achieve key business strategies. Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance processes, systems, and policies, supporting the implementation of new processes, policies, and systems. Ensure accurate cost estimation based on coverage of customer requirements and project scope. Manage project budget within mandate. Deliver projects on target, within due date, budget, and according to scope and project governance. Ensure traceability of defined benefits throughout the project lifecycle and escalate deviations. Identify project stakeholders, communicate their roles, define participation levels, map communication needs, and manage stakeholder engagement strategies through the project plan. Manage each stakeholder group actively through the change cycle. Manage business change impact across processes, systems, and technology. Understand roles, behaviors, and operations, defining strategies in the project schedule. Coach customers and management where processes and systems are changed, ensuring the change management process is led and supported. Capture client needs accurately in scope and ensure stakeholder sign-off. Ensure satisfactory post-implementation review by obtaining final sign-off from customers. Stay abreast of legislation and industry changes by reading relevant newsletters, websites, and attending sessions. Understand and embrace the client's vision and demonstrate values through interaction with team and stakeholders. Improve personal capability and stay abreast of developments in the field by identifying training courses and career progression for self through feedback from managers. Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in roles and responsibilities by completing learning activities, practicing experience, and obtaining/maintaining certifications within specified time frames. Ensure successful implementation of Agile in software projects with improved quality in accordance with business needs and strategic goals. Provide expert-level guidance to the software project team in terms of process, system, tools, methods, as well as communication, integration, and successful team dynamics through weekly facilitation sessions. Integrate with diverse stakeholders by engaging and facilitating with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs. Build professional relationships through engagement and regular communication and feedback with all stakeholders using quality metrics and project status reports as drivers. Ensure satisfactory post-implementation review and perform retrospectives/inspect & adapt sessions as required. Essential Qualifications: Relevant Project Management qualification. Agile or Scrum-related certification or qualification. Minimum Experience Level: 1-2 years working experience in a project environment, including exposure to the management of small/medium projects. 1-2 years agile - Scrum Master or Product Owner background and implementation essential. 1-2 years experience in the relevant Agile role for a software development team that was diligently applying Agile principles, practices, and theory. Behavioral Competencies: Collaborating Continuous Learning Planning and Organizing Customer Orientation Monitoring Information Leveraging Feedback Earning Trust Technical / Professional Knowledge: Relevant regulatory knowledge. Governance, Risk, and Controls. Data analysis. Relevant project management platform and tool knowledge. Principles of financial management. Information Technology concepts. Project Tool Kit. Project management principles and methodologies. How to Apply: If you meet the above requirements and are ready to take on an exciting challenge, please send your CV and a cover letter to recruitmentlosika.co.za or apply through our career portal. Join Losika Consulting and contribute to the success of our banking client through effective project management and Agile implementation. Losika Consulting is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Apply Now

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