Permanent - Junior Project Manager - Johannesburg (Incl. Northern Suburbs) - South Africa

Purpose of the role

• The Junior Project Manager is responsible for supporting the planning, coordination, and execution of small to medium-sized projects or workstreams within larger initiatives.
• This role assists in project administration, stakeholder communication, schedule tracking, and risk monitoring to ensure smooth delivery.
• Working closely with the Senior Project Manager and broader project team, the Junior Project Manager helps ensure deliverables are met, issues are escalated timeously, and project documentation is maintained.
• This role also contributes to process improvements and learns to apply project governance principles in a real-world delivery environment.

Top Management

• Controls the functional integration of the business. Determines the overall strategy and objectives of the business.
• Directs the company into the future.
• The nature of the work and focus is long-term. Sign-off on policy or strategy

Senior Management

• Knowledge of the entire business area/BU/company or group. Provide inputs for/formulation of the overall Organisational strategy.
• Translates the overall strategy into business plans for BU/Functional Unit, thereby operationalising organisational strategy.
• Implements and manages business plan, goals, and objectives and ensures the achievement of overall key Organisational/BU/Functional outputs.
• Manages the development of innovation and change

Professionally qualified & experienced specialists/mid-management

• Professional knowledge of sub-discipline or discipline.
• Provide input in the formulation of Organisational/Functional Unit business plans. Formulate and implement departmental/team plans that will support the BU business plans.
• Optimisation of resources (finances, people, material, information, and technology) to achieve given objectives in the most productive and cost-effective way.

Semi-skilled & discretionary decision making

• Accountable for the direct product, process, or service quality. Incremental improvement of existing processes and procedures according to clear guidelines.
• Choosing of correct action on the basis of set standards, training procedures, and past experience

Unskilled & defined decision-making

• Steps to accomplish work or processes are clearly defined and understood.
• Tasks are sometimes repetitive and uncomplicated, and the work cycle is short

Qualifications and/ or Certification

• Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in Project Management, Information Systems, Industrial Engineering, or a related field
• Project Management training or certification (e.g., CAPM, Agile Fundamentals) is advantageous
• Familiarity with SDLC and Agile methodology preferred

Experience and skills

• 1–3 years’ experience in a project coordination or junior project management role
• Exposure to IT or business systems projects preferred
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (especially Excel, Word, and PowerPoint)
• Experience with Jira or other project tracking tools is advantageous
• Strong attention to detail and organisational skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication

Competencies

• Task and Schedule Coordination
• Communication and Reporting
• Team Collaboration
• Issue and Risk Awareness
• Initiative and Willingness to Learn
• Documentation and Governance Support
• Time Management and Prioritisation