Senior Manager: Programme Management

What you will be doing:

Facilitate the design process of key deliverables and secure authorization from primary stakeholders

Design, implement and facilitate process to ensure alignment on key deliverables and direction to encourage collaboration and agile delivery between all parties

Design and implement measures to help the teams on the ART note and track PI objectives, dependencies, impediments, and delivery progress

Facilitate the building of monitoring tools to monitor and track progress against objectives and delivery progress

Support the design, integration, and execution of end-to-end tactical enablement strategies across the ART and the supporting infrastructure to drive the collaboration between all parties affected by the ART

Facilitate the building of integrated enablers to drive seamless delivery of PI objectives

Facilitate the building and integration of capabilities to enable the execution of the agile train release capability

Facilitate the design and implementation of service standards for the full agile train release capability

Define, implement and monitor service level measures for the primary and secondary stakeholders (product owners, management and other stakeholders)

Implement and drive capabilities and associated measures/analytics to optimise the ART enablement activities

Facilitates or ensures the facilitation of ART-level synchronisation

Drive simplicity, agility, innovation when conducting PI planning, inspecting and adapting events on all ART practices and processes.

Supports the scrum masters in effectively coaching their teams on the effective execution of all other team events such as the Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning and Review and similar events

Drives a culture of relentless improvement, through facilitation of ART level inspect and adapt workshops. Continuously challenges current ways of work to improve delivery, by incrementally improving quality, predictability, flow and value

Analyse and interpret data to produce detailed reports explaining trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies.

Support the design of measures that will track daily, weekly and monthly progress/performance against strategy and tactical plans

Ensure timeous reporting on performance

Responsible for translating Management Information data and reports and tabling insights gained through studying such integrated business (function) reports to measure success and to realign tactical strategy implementation objectives appropriately

The effective implementation of and adherence to the risk and control framework associated with service enablement

Driving the remediation of risk daily where control design or operational execution failed resulting in losses/breaches

Ensuring that all compliance, regulatory, governance or other risk standards are adhered to by all service providers and other stakeholdersWhat we are looking for:

Completd relevant Degree

3 - 5 years experience in managing teams and / or significant complex projects.

5 - 7 years' practical experience in working in a variety of business areas within IT, including experience as Release Train Manager for cross-functional programmes

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification or equivalent

Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) certification or equivalent

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Certified Release Train Manager certification or equivalent

Contract interpretation and management skills

Management of 3rd parties and service providers

Knowledge of MI Reporting systems

Working knowledge of the FSP (i.e National Credit Act (NCA)

Working knowledge of the Lean User Experience (UX) innovation cycle

Working knowledge of the Agile methodology

Demonstrated ability to work with dynamic, highly collaborative teams, requiring close consultation and coordination

Please note that if you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, consider your application unsuccessful.

Please note that most of our positions are remote however candidates should be residing within the traveling distance as circumstance of the opportunity can change.