
Associate Project Manager Remote
Job description
This position is a UK based role, which manages new and existing govService projects. The focus of the position is to lead project teams to complete client projects on time, and with overall quality. Communicating progress to the client, and managing communication between the client, govService team members, and across multiple internal teams.
What your impact will look like:
- Manage a diverse array of project resources to successfully complete projects.
- Lead projects throughout the project life cycle from discovery to delivery, through ongoing project management and optimisation.
- Cultivate and manage collaborative partnerships among customer and internal stakeholders to enable scoping, project, and resource decisions.
- Develop and maintain project management artefacts, including custom project plans, schedules, and deliverables for external customers to satisfy quality, time, and budget.
- Manage projects with a clear charter, prioritisation, and urgency.
- Analyse project roadmaps for conflicting tasks, timeline consolidation, risks, and resource allocation; identify critical path to completion and plans for risk management and mitigation.
- Ensure projects are completed within the constraints of scope, cost, resources, and time.
- Work with the finance organisation to ensure project timelines align with billing expectations.
Who you are:
- Strong listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
- Strong problem-solving skills, particularly about anticipating and solving problems, issues, risks or concerns before they become critical.
- Self-motivated and able to define, plan, and implement tasks in a team environment.
- Fast learning and adaptable — able to work in fast-paced environment.
- Passion for public service, citizen engagement, and communication.
- Excellent client service attitude and team focus.
- Clear sense of integrity with interest in building strong customer relationships.
- Proven ability to make sound professional judgments and to effectively communicate those to the client.
- Understanding of Project Life Cycle methodologies.
- One to two years of involvement in project management, preferably in an agency- like or public-sector serving environment is a plus.
- Technical implementation experience is a plus.
- Experience of project management software and tools; Salesforce.com or other CRM experience a plus.
- Project Management certification is a plus.
