Project Manager - 18 months

Managing and delivering multiple projects in the strategic projects portfolio of the University and ensuring the delivery of all projects in alignment with the goals of the University.


Responsible for:

• Project planning and management define project scope and schedule; organise and lead project meetings; prepare and distribute progress reports; manage risks and issues; correct deviations from plans; and perform delivery planning for assigned projects.
• Leading the identification and development of key project objectives, milestones, actions, dependencies, and success criteria in collaboration with the project sponsor and other stakeholders.
• Define and manage a well-defined project management process and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices.
• Integrate new programmes into the Universitys operations and planning systems.
• Accountable for the end-to-end delivery of key project(s) across all workstreams from initiation to close, ensuring that desired outcomes are met.
• Leading the project team to successfully deliver projects.
• Co-ordinating the definition of scope and delivery of detailed business requirements through collaboration with the business, IT, and other 3rd parties.
• Managing all stakeholders to manage key dependencies and interfaces between projects, to ensure consistency with objectives and timelines.
• Ensuring all stakeholders are kept up to date on the progress of the project, potential risks and delays, budget concerns.
• Ensuring risks are accounted for and that an appropriate risk management process is in place and followed appropriately by the project team.
• Collaborating with teams across the University responsible and with vendors / partners for the full change and transformation scope.

Qualifications:

• Significant experience in business transformation projects and change, leading complex transformation projects end-to-end within a fast-paced, large organization, including cultural, system, process, and people impact
• Proven ability to lead projects and ensure objectives, goals, and commitments are met 
• Experience in leading business change project teams, including 3rd party teams 
• First class communication skills and a real ability to secure results via diplomatic influence and authority, with the necessary confidence to build senior level relationships and help drive forward major change programmes 
• Clear ability to demonstrate strong commercial, financial, and analytical skills from identifying opportunities (internal and external), to securing approval/buy-in (from the Executives to the Board) and through to successful implementation

Work Arrangement

• Work Schedule: 8AM UK time, weekends off (3:00 PM to 12:00 AM)
• Work Location: Robinsons Zeta Tower, Bridgetowne. Ugong Norte, Quezon City. Office is accessible from Ortigas CBD, Eastwood, C5 Road, and Rizal areas
• The role will be work from home with occasional visits in the office. Ideally the candidate must be from Metro Manila or neighboring provinces.