Project Support Officer

The company

Blue Ridge Bank & Trust is a regional bank with over 200 branches and 670 employees across New York. Operations centres in New York City and two other cities handle deposits, card services and loan servicing. Banking holidays are paid days off.

Job summary

Blue Ridge Bank & Trust is hiring a Project Support Officer to work remotely from Croatia. Looking for someone who runs a tight meeting, writes a status report people actually read and escalates early. The company is based in New York City, the US. We are a distributed team spread across a few time zones. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

Job duties

• Report status to sponsors and steering committees.
• Escalate blockers before they turn into missed dates.
• Define scope, schedule, budget and resources with project sponsors.
• Keep project documentation organised in SharePoint or Confluence.
• Manage project budgets and forecast spend to completion.
• Run weekly status meetings and send clear notes with owners and dates.
• Coordinate work across IT, operations, finance and vendors.

Skills and experience

• 1+ years of project management experience.
• Proficient in Smartsheet, MS Project or a similar tool.
• Working knowledge of waterfall and Agile methods.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Pluses

• Change management training such as Prosci.

What you get

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise.
• Paid in USD.
• Paid time off.
• Flexible hours.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Croatia.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Blue Ridge Bank & Trust.