Project Manager

A day in the life of a Project Manager for Large European Institutions Projects

As a Project Manager for

Large European Institutions Projects, you will be part of highly skilled agile teams that design, develop, deploy, customize, and support break-through applications for EU institutions.

Your main duties will be to:

• Manage the implementation of information systems to meet identified business needs, acquiring and using the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales, and quality.
• Give proposals for project strategies, planning, definition of tasks and deliverables, review of project deliverables, quality control, risk analysis and management, status reports, problem reporting and management systems, follow up and organization.
• Guide the team in charge of project activities and review their deliverables.
• Participate in functional working groups and progress meetings.
• Estimate costs, timescales and resource requirements for the successful completion of each project to agreed terms of reference.
• Prepare and maintain project and quality plans and tracks activities against the plan, provide regular and accurate reports.
• Monitor costs, timescales and resources used. Take action where these deviate from agreed tolerances. Ensure that delivered systems are implemented within these criteria.
• Manage the change control procedure gaining agreement for revisions to the project from project sponsors. Provide effective leadership for the project team ensuring that team members are motivated and constantly developing their skills and experience.

Qualifications

If you have

• A Bachelor’s Degree (or relevant experience) in Computer Science or any other disciplines.
• At least 5 years of overall work experience.
• At least 3 years of specific expertise in Project Management Standards and methodologies.
• At least 3 years of specific expertise in Agile Methodologies, Scrum Management, Lean agile.
• St least 2 years of specific expertise in Service Management.
• At least 2 years of specific expertise in relational databases.
• Good knowledge of project management standards and methodologies (Project Scheduling, Strategic Planning, Financial Modelling, Budgeting, Forecasting, Performance Tracking).
• Good knowledge of Agile methodology, Scrum Management, Lean agile
• Good technical knowledge of the project’s aspects.
• Practical knowledge of reporting methods. Good knowledge of project management tools e.g. MS Project, and Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to give presentations.
• Ability to apply high-quality standards to all tasks.
• Ability to participate in multi-lingual meetings, good communication skills.
• The capability of working in an international/multi-cultural environment.
• Leadership & Negotiation skills.
• Ability to adapt to unplanned changes or decisions.
• Risk assessment.
• Able to work well under pressure and able to handle stress
• Comfortable in international and multicultural working environments.
• Proficient knowledge of English, both written and orally.