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The Focus Group

Senior Agile Project Manager (Contract)

The Focus Group

  • R800 - R1,200 per month
  • Contract Senior position
  • Randburg
  • Posted 22 Aug 2025 by The Focus Group
  • Expires in 34 days
  • Job 2620331
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About the position

Purpose:
Lead and manage enterprise-wide agile software projects, ensuring alignment with business strategy. Oversee planning, execution, stakeholder engagement, and delivery while promoting agile best practices and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Implement Agile methodologies to improve software quality and delivery.
  • Facilitate agile ceremonies and mentor teams on agile practices.
  • Collaborate with diverse stakeholders and manage change effectively.
  • Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and scope.
  • Track benefits, manage risks, and maintain governance standards.
  • Translate product requirements into actionable tasks.
  • Conduct post-implementation reviews and retrospectives.
Qualifications & Certifications:

  • Matric and relevant Honours Degree.
  • PMP/Prince2 and PGMP certifications (essential).
  • Scrum Master and Scaled Agile certifications (preferred).
Experience:

  • 8–10 years in project environments, with 2–3 years on medium to high complexity projects.
Skills & Knowledge:

  • Strong grasp of project management, financial principles, and agile tools.
  • Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.
  • Knowledge of industry trends, governance, and risk controls.
Behavioral Competencies:

  • Planning & Organizing
  • Influencing & Decision Making
  • Customer Orientation
  • Trust Building & Applied Learning

Desired Skills:

  • Agile
  • Budgeting
  • Compliance
  • Cost Management
  • Jira
  • Negotiation
  • Project Management

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THE FOCUS GROUP was formed in 1989 and has offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. We are a full service Human Resource Consulting Company, encompassing Black Empowerment joint venture partner Focus Kamoso, and offering a comprehensive range of integrated recruitment, assessment, employee relations, training and development, HR, employee benefit and payroll management services to a wide range of South African, African and international business organisations. Our commitment is to enter into a partnership with you, the Client, which adds value to your business and profit to your bottom line, by tailoring solutions that assist you to • Source, assess and select the best possible human resources. • Design and implement competency based training programmes, which ensure that your employees are capable of delivering the service excellence that your clients demand, and the competitive edge which you seek to maintain. • Create a business environment in which you manage change to your advantage and an organisational climate that allows your team to perform to its maximum potential. • Design employee benefit and remuneration structures which ensure that your people take ownership of your business and which protect you against losing your most valuable resource to your competition. • Implement an employee relations framework that promotes workplace harmony and minimises the occurrence of disruptive legal disputes.

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