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 Job Summary

We are looking for a motivated and organized Junior Project Manager with knowledge of Agile methodologies and the Scrum framework to support project planning, execution, tracking, and delivery.

 

Key Responsibilities

A. Project Planning and Coordination

• Assist in preparing project plans, schedules, milestones, and delivery timelines.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to track assigned tasks and dependencies.
• Monitor project progress against agreed scope, schedule, and deliverables.
• Maintain project documentation, status reports, action items, and meeting minutes.
• Follow up with team members to ensure timely completion of assigned activities.
• Escalate project risks, blockers, and delays to the project manager or relevant stakeholders.

 

 Agile and Scrum Support

• Support Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Assist the Scrum Master or project manager in maintaining an effective sprint cadence.
• Help the team maintain a clear and prioritized product or sprint backlog in coordination with the Product Owner.
• Track sprint commitments, task progress, impediments, and completed work.
• Assist in preparing sprint goals and monitoring progress toward them.
• Encourage adherence to Agile principles, team collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Help document retrospective outcomes and track improvement actions.

 

 Project Tracking and Reporting

• Maintain project dashboards and task boards using Jira, Azure DevOps, Trello, or similar tools.
• Track sprint progress, milestone completion, open issues, and delivery risks.
• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly project status reports.
• Monitor metrics such as sprint completion, velocity, defect trends, and cycle time.
• Maintain RAID logs covering risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
• Support resource planning and workload tracking.

 

Stakeholder Communication

• Coordinate communication between development, testing, design, business, and customer teams.
• Schedule meetings and distribute agendas, minutes, and action items.
• Follow up on outstanding decisions, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Assist in preparing project updates for management and customers.
• Ensure project information is communicated clearly and promptly.
• Support requirement clarification and change-request tracking.

 

Risk and Issue Management

• Identify potential delivery risks, blockers, and schedule deviations.
• Maintain risk and issue registers and track mitigation actions.
• Coordinate resolution of cross-team dependencies.
• Escalate issues that may affect scope, cost, quality, or delivery timelines.
• Support root-cause discussions and continuous improvement initiatives.

 

 Quality and Process Improvement

• Support adherence to project governance and delivery processes.
• Coordinate with QA teams to monitor test progress and defect resolution.
• Ensure project documentation and deliverables are maintained appropriately.
• Participate in retrospectives and help implement agreed improvement actions.
• Promote transparency, accountability, and collaborative working practices.