Qualification and Experience Required: Matric Diploma or Degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Information Systems, or a related discipline is preferred. A recognised Project Management certification or short course, such as CAPM, PRINCE2 Foundation, Agile fundamentals, or equivalent practical training, A minimum of five to 7 years experience supporting project or programme administration within complex transformation, technology, payments, financial services, or operational change environments. Experience supporting senior stakeholders, governance forums, project reporting, and multi-workstream delivery environments Technical Skills: Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office tools, particularly Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. The candidate should be competent in maintaining trackers, preparing meeting packs, consolidating reports, managing document repositories, applying version control, and supporting programme planning tools such as Microsoft Project, Planner, SharePoint, or equivalent platforms. Responsibilities: Senior Programme Administration and Delivery Coordination: Provide structured administration and coordination support across the programme and its workstreams. Maintain programme routines, trackers, calendars, artefact repositories, and working documents in a manner that supports delivery discipline, management oversight, and timely execution. Programme Governance Coordination: Coordinate governance forums, programme meetings, steering inputs, workstream sessions, and decision-making routines. Prepare agendas, consolidate packs, record decisions and actions, circulate outputs, and ensure that follow-ups are tracked through to closure. Project Portfolio Office Centralised Reporting Support: Support centralised project reporting through the PPO by coordinating reporting inputs, maintaining data quality, following up with workstream owners, updating agreed reporting fields, and ensuring that programme information is accurate, complete, and submitted within required reporting timelines. Integrated Status, Action, Risk, Issue, and Dependency Management: Maintain integrated trackers for actions, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, milestones, and deliverables. Proactively follow up with owners, identify overdue or incomplete updates, and escalate items requiring management attention. Programme Planning and Milestone Support: Support the maintenance of integrated programme plans, milestone views, workstream schedules, and delivery calendars. Assist with tracking upcoming deliverables, governance deadlines, dependency dates, and key programme commitments. Senior Stakeholder Coordination: Engage with programme leadership, workstream leads, internal teams, suppliers, and relevant stakeholders to Memorandum coordinate inputs, resolve administrative blockers, obtain updates, and support clear communication across the programme. Management Reporting and Governance Pack Preparation: Support the preparation and quality review of programme status reports, dashboards, governance packs, management updates, and decision papers. Ensure that reporting content is consistent, evidence-based, and aligned to the centralised PPO reporting process. Document Control and Programme Artefact Management: Maintain programme documentation in the agreed repository, apply version control, ensure naming conventions are followed, and support traceability of key artefacts, approvals, minutes, decisions, and sign-offs. Procurement, Onboarding, and Supplier Administration Support: Support administrative activities linked to supplier onboarding, purchase order tracking, timesheet follow-up, invoice support, and confirmation of deliverable sign-offs, where required by the programme. Quality, Compliance, and Governance Discipline: Support the programme team in ensuring that governance records, approvals, meeting outputs, reporting inputs, and supporting documents are complete, traceable, and aligned with applicable internal processes.
Junior Project Manager
DATA CENTRIX
johannesburg, johannesburg
Published 4 days ago
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