[Hiring] Senior Project Manager @PawaPay

Role Description

PawaPay is introducing a single, disciplined way of running cross-functional projects: clear ownership, one source of truth, and reliable visibility. This role is crucial for ensuring the delivery system across the business, which includes:

• Intake: Ensuring every project enters with a clear, complete brief and a named owner before work begins.
• Single source of truth: Maintaining a centralized view of every project in ClickUp.
• Prioritisation support: Supporting leadership dialogue on prioritisation and bottleneck management.
• Escalation: Spotting blockers and stalling tasks early and flagging them to the responsible line manager.
• Cross-functional bridge: Maintaining a clean interface with different departments and building relationships with collaborators.
• Active coordination: Coordinating the highest-priority projects while ensuring others run correctly.
• Reporting and AI: Stewarding the AI-assisted intake and reporting capability.
• Improvement: Continuously refining the delivery framework and ClickUp workspace.

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering and coordinating complex, cross-functional projects, ideally in fintech or regulated environments.
• A track record of bringing order to ambiguity and driving adoption.
• Fluency with ClickUp (or comparable platforms) and Slack, plus confidence with Google Workspace.
• Experience delivering merchant integrations, client onboarding, or API implementation projects is highly desirable.
• Relevant certification (PMP, PRINCE2, AgilePM, Scrum) is welcome but secondary to demonstrated ability.

Requirements

• Exceptional stakeholder management and influence without authority.
• Strong cross-functional coordination skills.
• Sharp risk anticipation and problem-solving abilities.
• Clear, credible communication with all levels of the organization.
• Comfort operating with high autonomy in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
• A genuine bias toward ownership and keeping processes proportionate.

Benefits

• Help improve financial access in Africa.
• Being part of an amazing team that shapes the company’s culture.
• An ambitious, talented, and diverse team that supports each other.
• Fast growth opportunities alongside the company.
• Competitive remuneration.
• 35 days of paid leave per year (inclusive of public holidays) and more.