Project Manager, Remote

Magpiepost is hiring a Project Manager, Remote to work remotely from Greece. We use Smartsheet for schedules and Jira for the technical work. MS Project experience is fine too. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. You will need to be available during UK office hours, at least until 3:00 PM GMT. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Escalate blockers before they turn into missed dates.
• Report status to sponsors and steering committees.
• Define scope, schedule, budget and resources with project sponsors.
• Plan and support go-lives, including cutover and rollback steps.

About you:

• 2-4 years of project management experience.
• Working knowledge of waterfall and Agile methods.
• Comfortable running meetings with senior stakeholders.
• Strong written status reporting.
• Organised, with a habit of following up.
• Experience managing budgets and multiple projects at once.

Pluses:

• Scrum Master certification (CSM or PSM)
• Change management training such as Prosci.
• Jira and Confluence.

Pay and benefits:

• Monthly internet allowance.
• Annual rate review.

About us:

Engagement teams range from three people to more than 200 on multi-year transformation programs. We work with Fortune 500 companies, federal agencies and large health systems. Founded in 1967, we now have 4,700 employees. We write a lot: proposals, status reports, slide decks and final reports.

We will only contact shortlisted applicants.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

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