Job Description
Agile Delivery & Facilitation
- Lead sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and reviews.
- Ensure agile principles are followed and adapted to the team’s context.
- Track sprint progress and manage delivery timelines and milestones.
- Ensuring that sprints are running smoothly and corrective actions taken wherever appropriate.
- Effectively communicate to project manager/delivery manager about the progress as well as blockages in the on-going sprints.
- Ensuring all change governance and standards are adhered to
- Developing plans to ensure delivery of teams’ work.
- Experience in maintaining and supporting multiple sprints.
Project & BAU Coordination
- Oversee the execution of initiatives and BAU enhancements.
- Collaborate with business analysts and delivery partners to ensure smooth delivery.
- Maintain delivery roadmaps and backlog prioritisation.
Reporting & Insights
- Support the creation of dashboards and reports using tools like Power BI and Excel.
- Consolidate and present delivery metrics, risks, and blockers to stakeholders.
- Ensure traceability of requirements and outcomes through structured documentation.
- Provide delivery updates in governance forums.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Can effectively manage and develop relationships with key decision makers and stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes.
- Promote a digital-first culture and agile mindset across the function.
- Provide regular updates and feedback loops to ensure transparency and alignment.
- Uses stakeholder management strategy effectively and knows how to navigate the organisation
- The ability to facilitate and negotiate with multiple parties to bring about agreement and resolution, even when position is not initially shared by others • Clearly and effectively communicates difficult or complex ideas clearly to
stakeholders, peers and subordinates - Adapts style to contribute and enhance teams performance by working effectively with people across a wide range of disciplines and levels, both internal and external.
Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve delivery processes and team performance.
- Encourage innovation and experimentation within agile teams.
- Stay current with agile trends, tools, and best practices.
Behavioural Attributes
- Deals comfortably with ambiguity and uncertainty and is effective when working with unstructured teams, situations and environments.
- Aware of project costs and resources, help in tracking actual against budget and managing the balance of delivery within time/cost/quality constraints.
- Ability to maintain a dialogue in difficult situations.
Experience
- Minimum 5 years of experience in agile delivery or project management, managing multiple sprints/projects.
- Experience supporting both project delivery and business-as-usual (BAU) initiatives.
- Familiarity with user acceptance testing (UAT), documentation, reporting and stakeholder engagement.
- Experience in internal audit or financial services is preferred.
Qualifications
- Matric (Senior Certificate)
- Relevant project management or agile delivery certification
Education
National Certificate: Information Technology (Required)
Salary
Competitive
Monthly based
Location
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Job Overview
Location
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
