Job Description

The invitation is for a Senior Agile Project Manager to join the client and take responsibility to manage and deliver medium projects from commencement to completion within the scope, budget and time agreed.

The Project Manager will play an active role in providing mentorship and coaching on agile best practices to staff. Also, ensure the team is working on the right tasks at the right time, working closely with the product manager to translate epics, stories, and other items on the sprint list info action.

Key responsibilities:

• Ensure successful implementation of Agile in software projects with improved quality in accordance with business needs and strategic goals.
• Provide expert level guidance to 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 multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of needs and wants.
• Build professional relationships through engagement and regular communication and feedback with all stakeholders using quality metrics and project status reports as drivers.
• Ensure accurate cost estimation based on coverage of client requirements and project scope.
• Manage project budget within the project scope.
• Deliver projects on target within due date, budget and according to scope and project governance.
• Ensure traceability of defined benefits throughout the lifecycle of the project and escalate any deviations.
• Ensure management of scope including coverage of client requirements and based on estimations.
• Manage delivery of project against agreed schedule.
• Meet requirements by providing advice to clients on the most appropriate Project Management approach, identify project stakeholders, communicate their roles, and define the level of participation in project, map their communication needs and mange stakeholder engagement strategies.

Projects could be associated with any discipline: property, engineering, information, technology in line with the business strategy.

Isilumko Staffing