Project Manager
- Hiring from
- South Africa
- Work type
- Remote
- Posted
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Key Responsibilities
- Manage client implementation projects from handover through completion.
- Establish project objectives, plans, milestones, responsibilities, and delivery expectations.
- Monitor project timelines, budgets, allocated hours, scope, risks, issues, dependencies, and overall project health.
- Identify potential delays, blockers, resource constraints, and scope concerns and take appropriate action.
- Maintain proactive communication with clients and manage stakeholder expectations throughout the project lifecycle.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure priorities, requirements, deliverables, dependencies, and timelines are clearly understood.
- Identify and manage project risks and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Manage scope changes and ensure variations are properly documented and approved.
- Monitor project budgets and allocated hours and escalate potential variances when required.
- Maintain accurate project documentation, status updates, action items, decisions, approvals, risks, and issues.
- Provide clear and timely project reporting to internal and external stakeholders.
- Support organizational change and user adoption activities to help achieve successful implementation outcomes.
- Capture lessons learned and contribute to improving project methodologies, templates, and processes.
Requirements
- Proven experience successfully managing and delivering projects.
- Experience in software, technology, consulting, digital transformation, or professional services environments is preferred.
- Experience managing multiple client-facing projects simultaneously.
- Strong experience managing project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and resources.
- Strong client-facing and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to identify potential delivery issues early and take proactive action.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to maintain focus on overall project outcomes.
- Comfortable managing changing priorities, dependencies, and project requirements.
- Experience preparing project plans, status reports, risk registers, action logs, and project documentation.
- Experience managing scope variations and change is an asset.
- Experience supporting organizational change and user adoption is an asset.
- Proficiency with Microsoft 365, including Teams and SharePoint.
- Experience with project management platforms such as ClickUp or similar tools.
- Experience working with municipal, government, or public-sector organizations is an asset.
- A recognized Project Management certification is an advantage, but practical project delivery experience is equally valued.
- Must be comfortable working remotely and collaborating with clients and teams across multiple time zones.
- Must be available to work North American business hours.
Workplace: Fully Remote
Employment Type: Full-time
Industry: Government / Software / Technology