- Define and agree relevant project objectives, risks, timescale and costs, working with stakeholders
- Develop and maintain project plans, identifying key deliverables, timelines and milestones
- Identify resource requirements and engage teams and vendors as required to fulfil project deliverables, identifying and escalating gaps
- Drive process to achieve milestones, including convening people as needed (identifying who should participate, developing agendas, getting meetings scheduled, tracking meeting decisions, outcomes and actions, etc.)
- Manage delivery to agreed quality/time/cost expectations, escalating where required, including with 3rd party vendors where necessary
- Ensure revisions to project objectives/deliverables/plans are duly reviewed and approved
- Identify key stakeholders and maintain appropriate levels of engagement / communication
- Ensure timely reporting in accordance with requirements
- Ensure that risks, issues and interdependencies are effectively managed and escalated where necessary for support and resolution
- Support and champion the use of any applicable programme and project management standards
Skills and attributes
- Deep understanding of project management disciplines
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills (English language)
- Strong influencing and relationship building skills, cross-functionally and across different organisations, at different organisational levels
- Ability to plan, organise and prioritise time, including across multiple projects
- Flexibility and pragmatism in approach, remaining composed under pressure
- Creative and proactive problem-solving approach, finding ways to make progress through complexity and uncertainty
- Ability to understand and respect established working practices while identifying and championing progressive changes
- Ability to understand and map processes to identify gaps and opportunities
- Ability to identify and manage project risks, escalating judiciously when required
- Ability to relate to the needs and operating environment of an international, not-for-profit body with a strong public service mission
- Fast learner, ability to navigate the different organisations and get up to speed quickly on key topics
- Strong team player with an ability to work independently in a collaborative and fast paced environment
