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Project Manager, Communications - Remote

Wikimedia Foundation

Uganda

Closing: May 28, 2024

12 days remaining

Published: May 15, 2024 (2 days ago)

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Job Summary

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The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Project Manager for the Communications department of the Wikimedia Foundation. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Program Management, you will work closely with multiple teams and departments on projects that support the Foundation's annual plan and its related strategies.

You will join a small, strong, experienced team focused on effectiveness—a key annual plan goal. Your work will help to support and extend the capabilities of the 50+ members of Wikimedia’s Communications department. You will project manage cross-team initiatives and support our collective work, liaising regularly with and across the Communications department’s teams, and acting as a supportive project partner to writers, designers, marketers, PR/media, and movement communications specialists.

This is a remote position working with colleagues in the USA, the UK, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Southeast Asia.

Requirements

2+ years of experience in project management, or related roles
2+ years of experience working remotely with a distributed team
Experience using Asana, our project management software, and the Google suite
Strong project management skills: prioritization, organization, planning, time management, stakeholder management, facilitation, problem solving, and decision-making
Familiarity and comfort with different communication styles, experience with various cultures and projects crossing multiple time zones
Ability to anticipate risks, build relationships and trust, influence without authority, and effectively enforce accountability
Dependable and flexible interpersonal communication skills
Experience and comfort with ambiguity

Responsibilities

This is a remote position working with colleagues in the USA, the UK, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Southeast Asia.

Requirements

2+ years of experience in project management, or related roles
2+ years of experience working remotely with a distributed team
Experience using Asana, our project management software, and the Google suite
Strong project management skills: prioritization, organization, planning, time management, stakeholder management, facilitation, problem solving, and decision-making
Familiarity and comfort with different communication styles, experience with various cultures and projects crossing multiple time zones
Ability to anticipate risks, build relationships and trust, influence without authority, and effectively enforce accountability
Dependable and flexible interpersonal communication skills
Experience and comfort with ambiguity

Collaborating closely with the Senior Manager of Program Management and assisting the department’s project managers on various projects, initiatives, and campaigns
Triaging incoming work requests in Asana, ensuring that projects are picked up by appropriate teams and individuals, assisting with, and tracking their progress to completion
Creating project roadmaps, assisting with negotiating project scopes, establishing project team norms, helping to define team roles and responsibilities and decision-making frameworks, identifying stakeholders, scheduling regular project meetings, and determining and clearly communicating roadblocks, challenges, and dependencies.
Supporting healthy team dynamics and a culture that welcomes diverse perspectives while driving multiple, smaller projects to completion
Documenting project work and running retros to identify best practices that lead to dependable, successful, on-time completion 
Tracking and reporting relevant qualitative and quantitative metrics
Ensuring individuals and teams understand their commitments to goals and to each other; upholding a culture of belonging and accountability
Helping project teams balance challenging work and workloads against the tendency toward scope creep and perfectionism

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