Programme Manager

• Programme Management: Lead and manage the end-to-end lifecycle of multiple projects, ensuring timely delivery and specified quality outcomes.
• Benefits Management: Ensure that the Business Case ROI remains relevant and updated. Forecast and track benefit(s), ensuring that epic delivery is linked to the company OKRs.
• Team Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams, providing guidance, motivation, and support to ensure collaboration and achievement of epics. Ensure that the team is aligned and focused on outcomes.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Establish and maintain effective relationships and communication with stakeholders, ensuring their needs and expectations are understood, managed, and addressed.
• Budget Management: Manage program budgets, perform accurate forecasting, track expenses, and ensure that the allocated budget is utilized effectively and efficiently.
• Risk Issue Management: Identify potential risks and issues and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful program delivery.
• Quality Assurance: Implement and monitor quality control measures to guarantee the delivery of high-quality outcomes.
• Reporting and Documentation: Prepare high-quality reports, documentation, and presentations as required for relevant meetings, forums, and stakeholders.
• Dependency Management: Identifies dependencies and inter-dependencies between programs/projects and actively manages these.
• Continuous Improvement: Evaluate program effectiveness, identify areas for improvement, and implement enhancements to optimize outcomes.
• Capacity management: Ensure adequate capacity for the required Epic delivery.
• Vendor Management: May be required to manage 3rd party vendors together with their respective service delivery and standards.
• Operational Business readiness: Ensures that all organizational elements of the program are addressed, integrated, and handed over to the relevant Business Owner.

• Relevant Agile certification.
• 5+ years’ experience in people leadership of a medium to large team.
• 5+ years’ experience in Programme Management.
• 3+ years’ working experience in an Agile or SAFe environment.

• Bachelor’s Degree or relevant tertiary qualification.
• Relevant Project Management certification.

• Essential: Familiarity with both traditional and agile project management tools and frameworks
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to comprehend information in verbal and written communication.
• Ability to operate in a highly pressured and ambiguous environment.
• Ability to build and maintain a healthy, collaborative, and productive team culture.
• Exceptional interpersonal and relationship-building skills to foster collaboration across teams.
• Strong leadership and team management abilities, with the capacity to inspire and motivate teams toward common goals.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and thrive in a dynamic environment.

• Contract Position
• Location: Cape Town (Hybrid)

• At iOCO, we believe anything is possible with modern technology we are continuously pushing the boundaries of innovative solutions across multiple industries using an array of technologies. 
• Our culture of continuous learning will ensure that you will have all the opportunities, tools, and support to hone and grow your craft. 
• By joining IOCO you will have an open invitation, a place where you will be able to connect and learn from your peers by sharing ideas, experiences, practices, and solutions. 
• We encourage diversity and work culture, and Setting U up for Success! #SuuS

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