Job Title: IT Project Manager
Location: Remote
Start Date: October 2023
Job Type: Contract

My client a leading Non Profit organisation is looking for an experienced Project manager to assist with an implementation of a new CRM system

Full time remote

Knowledge and skills:

• Experience with SugarCRM or implementation experience with other CRM systems
• Distinctive blend of business, IT, financial and communication skills. This blend is vital because this is a highly visible position with substantial impact.
• Familiarity with project management methodologies (for example, that of the Project Management Institute, PRINCE2 and agile approaches).
• Knowledge of project-planning tools.
• Ability to lead and motivate others; ability to empathize and knowledge of personality types.
• Sensitivity to working in a political environment and to interacting with senior leadership.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Expertise in setting and managing customer expectations.
• Effective influencing and negotiating skills in an environment where this role may not directly control resources.
• Ability to work in multi-cultural and hybrid work environments.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the successful delivery of single or multiple projects:
• Analyze project proposals to determine time frame, funding limitations and appropriate process for accomplishing projects.
• Identify and schedule project deliverables, artifacts, milestones, and required activities and tasks.
• Establish a work plan for staffing for project activities, iterations or phases, and, in coordination with the project sponsor, establish a project delivery team.
• Address cross-functional challenges:
• Coordinate across products, product teams or business units.
• Identify and manage cross-functional stakeholders, issues, risks and dependencies, and implement mitigation plans.
• Reduce delivery delays and friction:
• Update executive stakeholders on project status and escalate issues.
• Implement a change management and communication plan.
• Manage finances for the project with financial planning, analysis, and budget oversight.
• Coordinate with vendors.
• Train and coach project delivery teams:
• Incrementally develop project management knowledge and skills in the project teams.
• Monitoring and Reporting:
• Monitor the execution, progress and continued alignment of project (s) with IT Strategy via appropriate project reports/dashboards.
• Coordinate with Portfolio Management to ensure project teams are supported throughout the delivery.

Deliverables at the end of the engagement:

• Oversee and ensure the successful delivery of single or multiple projects on a daily basis.
• Deliver high-quality results within the identified objectives and constraints, ensuring the effective use of the allocated resources.
• Perform project risks and issue management, project communication, change and stakeholder management, budget oversight and training.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.


Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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