Project Coordinator

Recruit Digital is now part of Salt, a global, award-winning digital recruitment agency, connecting people and businesses within Creative, Marketing, Sales, and Technology. Over 250 consultants are "Creating Futures" around the world and change the lives of 1000s of people each year by helping them to start new roles in some of the most exciting start-ups, scale-ups, agencies or large global powerhouses. We cover permanent as well as contract roles and have offices in Auckland, Cape Town, Dubai, Johannesburg, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, London, Melbourne, New York, Singapore, and Sydney. Our services range from single hires to covering complete outsourcing solutions involving business change. We partner with our clients to find and place not only the best individual talent but also produce the most impressive and exciting digital teams across the globe. In New Zealand, our market coverage extends to Accounting & Finance, Business Support & Operations, and Supply Chain & Logistics. Salt also recently acquired APAC-based specialist digital, tech, media, and sales firm, Xpand to further increase our global talent services. Together with the new teams, we will have a stronger presence in the market as they join our vision in "Creating Futures" for our customers globally that will positively impact the digital economy. About the Role A leading South African retailer is running a large-scale Composable Commerce Re-Platforming Programme and needs a Project Coordinator to keep it operating smoothly. This role sits directly behind the Online Programme Manager - your job is to ensure that plans, risks, reporting, and governance are always current and accurate so that leadership focus stays on decisions, not data-gathering. This is a coordination and support role, not a delivery-accountable one. You won't own squad outcomes, but you will own the operating rhythm that makes delivery possible. Due to the high volume of applications expected, candidates who have not received feedback within two weeks of applying should consider their application unsuccessful. Key Responsibilities Maintain the programme plan, milestone tracker, and cross-squad dependency map - flagging slippage and conflicts early Own the RAID log (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) - logging, chasing owners, and preparing for steering and Exco review Prepare agendas, minutes, and action logs for governance forums (steering committee, architecture review, cross-functional sync) and track actions to closure Support budget and Capex tracking, maintaining spend-to-plan views and flagging variances Manage the programme document repository (Confluence/SharePoint) - keeping specs, decisions, and architecture artefacts current and correctly versioned Coordinate the programme planning cadence: scheduling, pre-reads, consolidating inputs, capturing outputs Coordinate release-readiness activities across release trains with Delivery Managers Act as first point of contact for cross-functional coordination, triaging and routing where Programme Manager involvement isn't required Requirements 2-4 years in a project/programme coordination, PMO, or delivery support role - ideally within a digital, e-commerce, or technology programme Relevant qualification in project management Advanced Excel and PowerPoint Working familiarity with Agile/SAFe and traditional project delivery methodologies Strong risk judgement - knows the difference between noise and an escalation Financial and vendor management exposure Confident stakeholder communicator across multiple levels Contract Details Duration: 12 months Location: Cape Town - in office Monday to Thursday, remote Friday Rate: Market-related