Full-Time Project Manager

Project Management:

• Develop and manage all aspects of project and engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks, and issues.
• Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources.
• Chair the project management team meetings.
• Procure and secure adequate resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes.
• Monitor, track, and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies, and critical path deliverables.
• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks and issues, and communicating across leadership.

Business and Senior Stakeholder Engagement:

• Engage with external stakeholders and internal business sponsors and focal points across the Organization globally and providing them with updates.
• Demonstrate a functional acumen to support how solutions will address the Organization’s project goals while maintaining alignment with industry best practices.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations to various audiences, including project team, sponsors, and key stakeholders.
• Deliver appropriate and effective executive level communication.

Team Management including Performance:

• Set and continually manage project and program expectations while delegating and managing deliverables with team members, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Coach, mentor, motivate, and oversee the work of project team.
• Monitor the performance of project staff.

Quality Control and Assurance:

• Manage ongoing quality control and participate in quality issue resolution.
• Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities.

Mandatory Requirements:

• University degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Marketing, Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline.
• Professional qualification or foundation certification in project management methodologies such as PMI, Prince 2, Agile SCRUM
• At least five (5) years of recent professional experience in program / project planning, management and successful delivery of complex cross functional or interdependent projects, some of which should be at the global or international level.
• Experience in collaborating with teams (physically or virtually) in an international and multi-cultural environment whilst producing results.
• Proven experience in writing project plans and project-related documentation.
• Experience in facilitating workshops, presentations to senior stakeholders and managing change in a federated (decentralized) organization.
• Knowledge of MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.) and MS SharePoint, MS Visio, MS Project
• Expert knowledge in spoken and written English.

Desirable:

• Extensive experience in working across multiple time zones without the need for face-to-face meetings.
• Experience with UN or other international or multinational organizations.
• Experience with professional business services such as consulting.
• Experience in facilitating workshops, presentations to senior stakeholders, and managing change in a federated (decentralized) organization.

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