Contract: 12-month fixed-term contract

Location: Hybrid, Johannesburg

About the role

X-idian is seeking a PMO Specialist on behalf of the client to support the effective operation of its Enterprise Project Management Office (ePMO). This role focuses on project governance, portfolio administration, reporting, methodology management, and tooling support to enable consistent and successful project, programme, and portfolio delivery.

The successful candidate will play a key role in maintaining delivery standards, facilitating governance processes, supporting project teams, and ensuring the accuracy and integrity of portfolio information. This role will contribute to improved delivery transparency, effective project controls, and reliable insights for management and executive decision-making.

The position requires a detail-oriented and organised professional who can work collaboratively with stakeholders, maintain strong governance practices, and identify opportunities to improve project management processes and tools.

Responsibilities

• Project Governance and Assurance

  • Support the implementation and administration of the client's project governance framework.

  • Coordinate project stage gates, governance reviews, approvals, and decision-making forums.

  • Monitor compliance with project management standards, policies, and documentation requirements.

  • Maintain governance artefacts, decision registers, action logs, and project audit trails.

  • Track governance exceptions, conditions, and remediation actions.

  • Support project health reviews and assurance activities, escalating governance or compliance concerns where necessary.

• Project and Programme Support

  • Provide day-to-day PMO support to Project Managers and Programme Managers.

  • Assist with project initiation, planning, monitoring, reporting, and closure.

  • Maintain integrated project schedules, milestone tracking, and portfolio reporting information.

  • Track risks, issues, actions, assumptions, dependencies, and change requests (RAID).

  • Facilitate project status reviews and follow up on agreed actions.

  • Coordinate cross-functional dependencies and support consistent application of project management methodologies.