Project Manager / Scrum Master at Confidential Employer – Harare

An Organisation in the financial sector is seeking a project manager / scrum master who can lead and coordinate IT and digital transformation projects using a hybrid delivery approach, ensuring effective project planning, governance, risk management and resource control.

Principal Accountabilities:
* Leads IT and digital transformation projects throughout the full project lifecycle, ensuring effective delivery from initiation to closure and post implementation review.
* Develops and maintains project plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, governance documents and delivery roadmaps in line with the Organisation's project management framework.
* Applies appropriate predictive, Agile or hybrid project methodologies and serve as Scrum Master for assigned Agile initiatives.
* Monitors project scope, timelines, budgets, quality, risks, issues and benefits, implementing corrective actions and escalating material variances where necessary.
* Facilitates project governance through Project Boards, Steering Committees and stage-gate reviews, ensuring decisions, actions, risks and dependencies are properly tracked.
* Maintains RAID logs and coordinates cross-functional, vendor, technology and regulatory dependencies to support effective project delivery.
* Ensures project deliverables meet approved quality, acceptance, cybersecurity, data protection, business continuity, regulatory and architecture requirements.
* Manages project financials, procurement requirements, resource forecasts and vendor performance, including expenditure and cost variance monitoring.
* Coordinates benefits realisation, project transition, handover, closure and post-implementation reviews to assess outcomes and realised benefits.

* Bachelor's degree in information systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, Project Management or a related discipline.
* Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent PMI certification is required or strongly preferred.
* PRINCE2 Practitioner is required or strongly preferred; PRINCE2 Agile is an added advantage.
* Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM I/II) is required; PMI-ACP or equivalent Agile certification is an added advantage.
* ITIL, COBIT, ISO/IEC 27001, data protection, cyber-security, vendor management or financial-services governance certification is an added advantage.
* Minimum of 4 years' progressive project management experience including end-to-end delivery of medium to large IT or digital transformation projects, with at least 2-3 years practical Agile/Scrum delivery experience.
* Strong working knowledge of PMBOK project management principles, value delivery, planning, measurement, uncertainty/risk and tailoring for predictive, adaptive and hybrid environments.