Project Coordinator, Fintech
Optasia
full-time
Posted on:
Location: 🇿🇦 South Africa
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JuniorMid-Level
Tech Stack
GoPMP
About the role
- Coordinates closely a deliverable’s execution, while taking responsibility for planning the management of scope and schedule
- Monitors and controls each sub-team’s deliverables
- Manages planned and unplanned changes, risks and issues to ensure rapid delivery and greater predictability
- Coordinates stakeholders’ involvement to keep them apprised of progress and address their needs, both internal as with the client, mainly MNO’s
- Shifts in priorities from senior leadership by ensuring members retain focus to handle changes with minimal disruption to productivity
- Performs reporting as needed.
Requirements
- 2-3 years of recent related work experience in a financial services, telecommunications & IT sectors
- Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in IT / Engineering, Telecommunications or related field
- Experience of process and project management
- Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously, facilitating status meetings and presenting to large groups
- Ability to identify problems, to mediate issues, to develop solutions, and to implement appropriate course of action
- Ability to assess and evaluate the criticality and benefits of any required action by the various stakeholders
- Understanding of the principles of software development lifecycle
- Project management certification is considered as a plus (PMP, Prince2 Practitioner, PM2)
- IPMA, MSP, Six-Sigma, ITIL practitioner, or agile certification is considered as a plus
- Willingness to travel up to 70% during the delivery phases