Major Responsibilities:

• Creates and Maintains and Integrated Project Plan: Develops, and continually updates, detailed program management plans. Develops work breakdown structures based on the project objectives and scope. Ensures the implementation methodology is adhered to.
• Manages Project Status Reporting: Prepares status reports to communicate project scope, goals, achievements, budget, risk, status, change requests, and critical issues to the client and project team.
• Performs Project Resource Management: Provides work direction and leadership to assigned projects, including scheduling, assignment of work and review of project efforts. Identifies project resource requirements and staff assignments. Checks for staff availability. Updates the project plan with work assignments.
• Conducts Risk Management: Maintains documentation for identified risks and mitigation strategies. Proactively gathers and updates risk status and documentation as needed.
• Provides Overall Project Administration: Participates in program team meetings, proactively documents meeting minutes, track issues, decisions and action items, and follow-up between meetings to drive issues to closure.
• Conducts Other Tasks as Needed: Performs other duties or special projects as required or as assigned 

Key Working Relationships 

• Position Reports to: Program Technology at Scale Lead
• Direct Reports: None
• Management in Partnership: Associate Director IT Projects & Portfolio Mgt

Key Internal Relationships: 

• METAL Product Managers
• METAL Technology Development Lead
• METAL Developers

Desired Experience and Skills:

• Successfully managed complex programs with technology components.
• Six or more years of project management experience in IT or software, ideally related to humanitarian service delivery or information systems.
• Experience working in Jira preferred.
• International NGO/Global Humanitarian Organization experience in a developing country preferred. 

Education: 

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Project and/or program management certification (PMP, CSM, etc.) preferred.