Manager: Project Management & Business Analysis (12 Months Contract)

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Project Management: Plan, execute, and monitor projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with organisational goals. This may involve managing project timelines, resources, risks, and dependencies.
• Apply appropriate project management methodologies to ensure timely and effective delivery (agile/waterfall/sprint).
• Manage the end-to-end delivery of strategic and enterprise-wide projects, from concept through to implementation and benefits realisation.
• Develop and maintain project charters, business cases, project plans, schedules, budgets, and risk registers.
• Monitor project performance, manage dependencies, and proactively address risks and issues.
• Provide project leadership and guidance to project teams and contributors, including external service providers where applicable.
• Manage Post-implementation reviews and lessons learned
• Ensure governance, reporting and assurance requirements are met.

• Conduct business analysis to define problems, opportunities, and strategic options.
• Engage stakeholders to elicit, analyse, and document business requirements, functional specifications, and process maps.
• Assess current-state processes and design future-state solutions that improve efficiency, effectiveness, and customer outcomes.
• Translate strategic objectives into actionable initiatives, measurable outcomes, and success indicators.
• Support data-informed decision-making through analysis, insights, and scenario modelling.
• Make recommendations that align to project management objectives.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of project delivery frameworks, tools, and standards.

• Partner with Senior Manager: OE to align projects with organisational strategy.
• Facilitate workshops, design sessions, and strategic conversations to build shared understanding and commitment.
• Support change management efforts by ensuring stakeholders are informed, engaged, and ready to adopt new ways of working.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Relevant Honours degree in Business Management, Project Management or a related qualification.
• Minimum of 710 years experience in project management, with significant exposure to HR and enterprise wide projects.
• 5 7 years in business analysis, including requirements elicitation, process mapping, and solution design.
• Project management certification (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2, Agile) and business analysis certification (e.g. CBAP) .
• Local government experience is added advantage