Project Manager

Food services serve about 30,000 meals a day. Chiselline is a public school district with more than 40,000 students and 20,100 employees. Coaching and club stipends are paid on top of salary.

Job summary

We use Smartsheet for schedules and Jira for the technical work. MS Project experience is fine too. The Project Manager runs cross-functional projects from kickoff to close, usually three or four at a time, with budgets between $250K and $2M. The company is based in Leeds, the UK. The team is distributed across several countries. Employment is through our payroll partner in India. Salary is paid monthly in Indian rupees. You will need to be available during UK office hours, at least until 3:00 PM GMT.

Job duties

• Escalate blockers before they turn into missed dates
• Keep project documentation organised in SharePoint or Confluence
• Coordinate work across IT, operations, finance and vendors
• Report status to sponsors and steering committees
• Handle change requests and their effect on scope, time and cost
• Close projects with lessons learned and a clean handoff to operations
• Track risks, issues and decisions in an RAID log
• Build and maintain project plans in Smartsheet or MS Project

What we're looking for

• 2-4 years of project management experience
• Comfortable running meetings with senior stakeholders
• Organised, with a habit of following up
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Strong written status reporting
• Working knowledge of waterfall and Agile methods

Perks and benefits

• Two weeks of paid leave at year end
• Annual team retreat
• Flexible hours
• Home office setup budget

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Chiselline.