Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Idealist Consulting is a company dedicated to helping nonprofits and progressive organizations grow through technology. They are seeking a part-time Enterprise Project Manager to guide client projects from inception to completion, translating client needs into technical requirements and ensuring effective communication between clients and the team.
Responsibilities
- Guide full project life cycle from requirements gathering to solution design and development, testing, and deployment
- Steering complex Enterprise-level implementations through various stages of development and deployment
- Support translation of client needs into technical requirements
- Join and lead client-facing discovery sessions
- Maintain and update Story Navigator as the central repository of project configuration, design, documentation, and user feedback
- Assist in quality testing prior to user testing
- Create and actively manage implementation schedules, project deliverables and milestones to ensure effective completion of project milestones, control project scope and mitigate risks
- Coordinate client and Idealist Consulting project team meetings and communications, utilizing prescribed project management tools and platform to ensure continuity in communication and project quality
- Produce quality project deliverables, including kickoff presentations, project plans, status reports, budget burn reports, client requirements, design documentation, and deployment plans
- Work closely with client project team to identify, nurture, and guide client team
- Collaborate with Client Success Team and Service Delivery management as needed to resolve project or client communication roadblocks
- Proactively manage multiple, concurrent projects
Skills
- 3-7 years experience in a similar role
- Minimum certification: Salesforce Admin Certification
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills - including translation of technical requirements to non-technical individuals
- Project management experience
- Familiarity with PROSCI and ADKAR
- Understanding of nonprofit technology projects
- Ability to engage in multiple projects at one time
- Experience managing with both Waterfall and Agile software development methodologies
- Creative and analytical thinking with a passion for solving customer problems with software solutions
- Experience in Enterprise-level Implementations, demonstrating a track record of successfully steering complex projects through various stages of development and deployment
- Understanding of Nonprofit Cloud (NPC) (Certification preferred)
- 2+ Salesforce administration with strong declarative design skills and the ability to deliver customer-driven solutions
- Proven experience with NPSP and NPC
- PMP or other related Certification is a strong plus
- Experience managing projects or engaging in projects with technical and cross-functional components
- Previous experience working with nonprofits, experience working in fundraising and program management is a plus
- Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud certifications a plus
- Team leadership experience
Benefits
- Contractor hourly rates are set based on experience, certifications, and specialization.
- Idealist Consulting reviews all contractor rate bands at least once annually.
- Independent contractors define their own availability and capacity.
- Independent contractors are not employees of Idealist Consulting and are therefore not eligible for benefits such as healthcare coverage and paid time off.
- Independent contractors are required to carry their own professional liability insurance policy.
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