Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Passion for Life, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization focused on providing career coaching and opportunities for under-resourced youth. They are seeking a volunteer Project Manager to support team leaders in overseeing projects and initiatives, developing and coordinating project tasks and activities.
Responsibilities
- Creating Projects in Asana
- Assists the team leader and teams in creating projects and subtasks (steps to achieve the project)
- Managing and Communicating Within Projects
- Assists team leader by coordinating project tasks to ensure all project milestones are achieved. Frequently follows up with team members to check progress on tasks being performed by the project teams especially those that are overdue or unassigned
- Communicates project activities to team members and PFL’s organization project manager (Director of Project Management)
- Create and maintain team meeting minutes and manage the meetings' project progress and status reports segment. Disseminate meeting recap after each team meeting, assembling any required documentation for projects in Asana
- Report Project Status
- Updates project status on Asana and sends updates stakeholders
- Complete and maintain the monthly progress report to share in company meetings
Skills
- One year of project coordination or management experience
- Leadership skills
- Ability to prioritize and manage work against critical project timelines
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to juggle multiple priorities
- Proven experience in identifying, analyzing, problem-solving and responding to internal and external opportunities and challenges with the ability to translate these into practical plans of action
- Ability to lead and work collaboratively and support others in the development and implementation of agreed strategies within team and wider organizational contexts
- Must be a self-starter and possess the ability to work well with others
- Collaborate on projects as both a team leader and a team member
- Must possess initiative and creativity; a highly developed work ethic
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