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Project Manager

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South Africa
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Remote
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Key Responsibilities

  • Manage client implementation projects from handover through completion.
  • Establish project objectives, plans, milestones, responsibilities, and delivery expectations.
  • Monitor project timelines, budgets, allocated hours, scope, risks, issues, dependencies, and overall project health.
  • Identify potential delays, blockers, resource constraints, and scope concerns and take appropriate action.
  • Maintain proactive communication with clients and manage stakeholder expectations throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure priorities, requirements, deliverables, dependencies, and timelines are clearly understood.
  • Identify and manage project risks and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.
  • Manage scope changes and ensure variations are properly documented and approved.
  • Monitor project budgets and allocated hours and escalate potential variances when required.
  • Maintain accurate project documentation, status updates, action items, decisions, approvals, risks, and issues.
  • Provide clear and timely project reporting to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Support organizational change and user adoption activities to help achieve successful implementation outcomes.
  • Capture lessons learned and contribute to improving project methodologies, templates, and processes.


Requirements

  • Proven experience successfully managing and delivering projects.
  • Experience in software, technology, consulting, digital transformation, or professional services environments is preferred.
  • Experience managing multiple client-facing projects simultaneously.
  • Strong experience managing project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, issues, and dependencies.
  • Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and resources.
  • Strong client-facing and stakeholder management skills.
  • Excellent communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to identify potential delivery issues early and take proactive action.
  • Strong attention to detail with the ability to maintain focus on overall project outcomes.
  • Comfortable managing changing priorities, dependencies, and project requirements.
  • Experience preparing project plans, status reports, risk registers, action logs, and project documentation.
  • Experience managing scope variations and change is an asset.
  • Experience supporting organizational change and user adoption is an asset.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft 365, including Teams and SharePoint.
  • Experience with project management platforms such as ClickUp or similar tools.
  • Experience working with municipal, government, or public-sector organizations is an asset.
  • A recognized Project Management certification is an advantage, but practical project delivery experience is equally valued.
  • Must be comfortable working remotely and collaborating with clients and teams across multiple time zones.
  • Must be available to work North American business hours.

Workplace: Fully Remote

Employment Type: Full-time

Industry: Government / Software / Technology

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