About Discovery

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As a global thought leader, Discovery is passionate about innovating to not only achieve financial success but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About Discovery Health Systems (DHS)

The Discovery Health Systems (DHS) is a world-class software development house that enables the Discovery Health

Business to use digital transformation as a competitive advantage. It focuses on rapid quality software delivery. Innovation and excellence are key attributes of all our initiatives. The skills and expertise of the team allow diverse product development on all strategic, tactical, and operational changes. Our environment is fast-paced and demands energy, drive, enthusiasm, ownership, and creativity, but it rewards with an extremely fulfilling and stimulating environment that actively supports career growth and development.

Key Purpose

The purpose of this role is to ensure the successful delivery of projects by planning, organising, and managing resources effectively, while aligning project outcomes with the organisation's strategic goals. The role is responsible for driving project objectives, coordinating activities, and maintaining adherence to quality standards, budgets, and timelines. By fostering collaboration, ensuring accountability, and promoting structured methodologies, this role plays a critical part in achieving both project-specific and broader organisational objectives, delivering value to stakeholders and supporting long-term success.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

1. Project Delivery

Coordinate and facilitate kick-off meetings with key stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and approach.
Collaborate with business owners, functional teams, development managers, business analysts and technical teams to gather necessary input for initiation and planning documents.
Plan, manage, and oversee the execution of project tasks with Systems and Business, ensuring alignment with timelines, objectives, and resource availability.
Facilitate the required cadence to ensure that the project remains on track
Monitor progress, resolve blockers, and adjust plans as necessary to achieve project goals.
Perform project implementation review workshops.

2. Resource and Budget Management

Communicate resource and capacity allocation to business and manage delivery expectations
Provide feedback on resourcing and capacity constraints
Work with business to define project benefits and related metrics

3. Stakeholder Engagement and Communication

Serve as a point of contact for stakeholders, ensuring regular updates on project progress, risks, and outcomes.
Prepare and deliver clear reports, presentations, and dashboards for project stakeholders.
Foster strong relationships with internal Systems and Business teams, clients, and external partners to align expectations.

4. Risk and Issue Management

Identify potential risks or issues and manage or escalate them for resolution promptly.
Collaborate with teams to develop and implement risk mitigation strategies.
Maintain comprehensive logs for issues, risks, and decision points.

5. Project and Programme Reporting

Develop and maintain project and programme reporting structures, including progress updates, status reports, and metrics.
Ensure accurate and timely reporting to programme leads, senior management, PMO, and other stakeholders.
Contribute to the preparation of portfolio-level reports that align with organisational goals and strategies.

6. Governance and Compliance

Ensure projects adhere to DHS governance frameworks and comply with organisational standards.
Advocate for best practices to improve project delivery and team collaboration.
Maintain alignment with risk, audit, and regulatory requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
Monitor project activities to ensure deliverables meet quality standards and compliance expectations.
Support testing, reviews, and retrospectives to continuously improve processes and outcomes.

Skills and Competencies

1. Technical Skills

Proficiency in enabling and collaboration tools such as MS Project, Jira and Confluence.
Understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and frameworks.
Understanding of SDLC
Understanding of change management frameworks
Business writing and executive reporting and presentation.

2. Behavioural Skills

Strong organisational and time management capabilities.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to identify issues and risks and proactively facilitate problem-solving with a focus on achieving results.
Ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional teams.
Ability to confidently make data-based objective recommendations to improve project outcomes
Ability to foster a healthy team culture while ensuring delivery of key projects

3. Personal Attributes

High attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities.
Resilience and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.
Views themself as a change agent
Values continuous improvement
Adopts an owner mindset
Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trust and rapport with stakeholders.

Education and Experience

Education:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Project management certification (e.g. CAPM, PRINCE2, Agile) is advantageous.
Experience:
- A MINIMUM of 2 years’ experience managing medium to large complexity technical projects in a software development environment.
- Experience in healthcare IT systems or software development projects is advantageous.

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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