Job Purpose

To plan, track, monitor, and control activities of medium to large projects to ensure that project goals/objectives are accomplished within the prescribed time frame, agreed quality, and funding parameters enabled through Nedbank project methodologies and people management. 
The methodologies for the projects include Waterfall, Hybrid, Agile and Milestone tracking. The Projects could be associated with any discipline e.g. property, engineering, information technology, in line with the business strategy. The Project Manager will also need to play an active role in providing mentorship and coaching on agile best practices to the projects they are involved with. The Project Manager will also ensure that the team is working on the right tasks at the right time, working closely with the Project team. 

The Project Manager will also ensure the team is working on the right tasks at the right time. If the methodology of the project is Agile, the Project Manager will work closely with the product manager to translate epics, stories, and other items on the sprint list into actionable tasks for the delivery team.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g., staff surveys etc.).
• Participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of key business strategies.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance processes, systems, and policies and support 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 life cycle of the project and escalate any deviations arising throughout the project.
• Identify project stakeholders; communicate their roles; define level of participation in the project; map their communication needs and manage stakeholder engagement strategies through the project plan.
• Manage each stakeholder group actively through the change cycle.
• Manage the business change, impact across process, systems, and technology.
• Understand roles, behaviours, and operations and define strategies in the project schedule.
• Coach customers and management where processes and systems are changed; ensure the change management process is led and supported together with the customer; capture client needs accurately in scope and ensure sign-off by stakeholders.
• Ensure satisfactory post-implementation review by obtaining final sign-off from customers.
• Keep abreast of legislation and other industry changes that impact the role by reading the relevant newsletters, websites, and attending sessions.
• Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and demonstrate the values through interaction with the team and stakeholders.
• Improve personal capability and stay abreast of developments in the field of expertise by identifying training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from managers.
• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities by ensuring all learning activities are completed, experience practiced, and certifications obtained and/or maintained 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 performing retrospectives/inspect & adapt sessions as required.
• Understand and run projects with an agile methodology.