Junior Project Manager
Umhlanga
South Africa
Permanent
Other
- Job Title: Junior Project Manager
- Location: Umhlanga
- Contract Type: Permanent
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Work Arrangement: Hybrid
- Fluent in English
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Experience working in a SCRUM / Agile environment
- Support the delivery of IT projects using Agile / Scrum ways of working
- Shadow and assist a Senior Director with day-to-day project leadership and decision making
- Help coordinate Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Reviews and Retrospectives
- Track project progress across scope, timeline, risks, issues and dependencies
- Maintain clear project documentation (plans, RAID logs, actions, meeting notes)
- Liaise with international stakeholders to gather updates and align priorities
- Support the Product Owner / business teams with requirements and user story clarity
- Work closely with Developers, QA and Delivery teams to unblock delivery bottlenecks
- Ensure tasks are updated accurately in tools such as Jira / Confluence / Azure DevOps
- Assist with reporting on project status and delivery metrics to senior leadership
- Help manage stakeholder communication and ensure expectations are set correctly
- Identify risks early and escalate to the Senior Director when needed
- Support UAT coordination and ensure feedback is captured and actioned
- Assist with release planning and go-live readiness activities
- Continuously improve delivery processes and ways of working across the team
Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Lungelo Nkosi

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