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They’ve joined Athena to get more leverage, more impact, more success, and more time via their relationship with their top 1% Philippines and Kenya-based Executive Assistant. They are world-class humans who want to get world-class at delegation.
The Project Manager will be responsible for planning and overseeing high-impact projects at Athena that span the five project phases of a project life cycle to ensure they are completed in a timely fashion and within budget.
High-level Responsibilities
- Develop: Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan for high-impact projects at Athena. Maximize team effectiveness by coordinating cross-functional teams and delegating tasks and timelines best suited to complete them.
- Support and Guide: Provide input, guidance, and advice to identify and resolve project issues in real-time as well as identify and mitigate project risk ahead of time to carry projects into timely completion.
- Track: Schedule and conduct project checkpoint evaluations and cross-functional team reviews at strategic points in the project lifecycle to assess project status, risk, and quality.
Specific Responsibilities
- Initiation. Develop a project charter, identify stakeholders, and secure approvals.
Planning. Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
- Develop a project management plan
- Estimate costs and determine the budget in coordination with the Finance team
- Plan, define, and develop schedules, activities, estimating resources and activity durations
- Identify quality requirements and ensure compliance
- Delegate tasks on the project to stakeholders and vendors best positioned to complete them
- Manage contracts with vendors and suppliers by assigning tasks and communicating expected deliverables
- Identify potential risks, perform qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, and plan risk mitigation strategies
- Plan for and identify required procurements
Execution. Direct and manage all project tasks according to the timelines identified in the project plan
- Perform quality control on the project throughout development to adhere with the expected standards and goals
- Delegate project tasks based on the project team members' individual domain expertise, strengths, skill sets, and experience levels
- Serve as the first point of contact for project team members
- Work with the Finance team on securing necessary procurements
Monitoring and Controlling. Track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals
- Create and present status reports to stakeholders
- Manage changes to the project when necessary
- Validate and control the project scope, costs, quality, procurement, and communications
- Perform risk management to minimize project risks
- Develop spreadsheets, diagrams and process maps to document needs.
Closing. Delivering the project. Verify that the project stakeholders have accepted the project deliverables. If the project or product is ongoing after the project, then maintenance must be set up.
- Arrange a Post Mortem Meeting. Gather the core team to invite feedback about what worked, and what didn’t. Encourage honesty. Build a catalog that offers historic data by documenting the mistakes and the successes of the project.
- Complete Paperwork. Ensure every documentations must have sign off and approval from project stakeholders for the purpose of legal proof of the project conclusion. This includes, but is not limited to closing all contracts you might have made with internal partners or vendors and/or any other resources in relation to the project.
- Archiving Project Records. Archive all the documents and any notes or data that could prove useful. Ensuring that there's a need to keep a paper trail of all the projects done for other people in the organization. This might include legal teams, or HR teams, or even your successor.
- Release Resources. Be mindful of the project timelines and formally release resources once the project concludes.
About You
You are a leader.
- You are passionate about driving high-impact projects to completion.
- You keep your expectations clear and hold project team members accountable for the project tasks they are responsible for.
You have solid project management experience.
- You have at least 3 years of project management experience and/or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or training.
- You understand what the project manager role entails and how to be successful in it.
- You have a strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices.
- You have experience handling complex projects. Experience in handling projects for newly launched operations is a plus, but not required.
You are an excellent communicator.
- You have good written and verbal communication skills and comfortable working with multiple stakeholders
- You deliver specific and well-defined feedback that moves the project goals forward (positive or negative).
You have a continuous improvement mindset.
- You don't rest on your laurels when things are going well. You are always looking for opportunities for improvement—and acting on those opportunities.
- You maintain high-quality standards so you ensure that project team members consistently provide high-quality outputs.
You have great organizational skills.
- You are highly organized. You collate and analyze data/information rigorously, and you keep all projects aligned with our goals.
- You follow up in a timely manner and keep track of the project's progress.
You are collaborative.
- You can successfully work with cross-functional stakeholders toward a common goal.
- You help identify the problems or weak areas in the project and develop ways to target those issues in collaboration with stakeholders.
- A police clearance is required for successful candidates and should be readily available once identified for the role
Athena is a Drug-free Workplace
We are committed to fostering a safe, healthy, and productive work environment. As part of this commitment, we maintain a strict drug-free workplace policy. Drug testing may be required as a condition for hiring and/or on a random basis. All testing is conducted confidentially in accordance with company policy.
