Senior Project Manager, Public Relations

4 weeks ago


Riyadh, Saudi Arabia APCO Worldwide Full time
Job Description

The Senior Project Manager role is to own and manage the complete project life cycle from kick-off to close-out including reporting and risk management.

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

  • Continuously monitor projects to ensure they are meeting standards, adhering to budgets, and meeting deadlines
  • Collaborate with all departments and units to manage and prioritize project delivery
  • Ensure team members carry out their tasks efficiently while upholding the standards of the client
  • Monitor projects and report status to management on a regular basis
  • Create and maintain a risk register to manage potential risks
  • Manage the timely resolution of issues, including the escalation of issues that are outside of the project team's scope of responsibility for respective project
  • Develop, maintain, and manage detailed project plans, action items and major milestones for all assigned projects
  • Act as a single point of contact for project status
  • Address problems through risk management and contingency planning and present solutions to SC management
  • Perform additional duties commensurate with the current role, as and when requested by the Head of Communication Planning
  • Manage overall implementation
  • Track and monitor program progress
  • Manage internal and external communication related to project status
  • Ensure stakeholder alignment
  • Manage on-going issue resolution
  • Identify and manage risks
  • Prepare Leadership presentations storyline, align with program leaders and program manager, collect respective slides from workstreams
  • Check budget and track savings and expenses
  • Keep track of resources schedule
  • Prepare project plan at the start of a project.
  • Provide detail on activities and key milestones planned by each initiative/ work stream
  • Provide detail for each initiative/ work stream on progress and key issues for reporting upwards
  • Provide detail for each initiative/ work stream on issues and risks and potential remedies
  • Create a shared file repository functionality with access control and version control
  • Keep track of resources' time and pre-plan time off and vacations.
  • Prepare project budget and track savings and spend on an ongoing basis

AD-Hock Assignment/reports

  • As per the Direct Manager's requests

Competencies

  • Excellent communication skills written and verbally
  • Ability to multitask and work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
  • Excellent organization and time management skills, strong attention to detail
  • Knowledge development skills
  • Initiative
  • Teamwork skills
  • Ability to be flexible, resilient, solution oriented and creative
  • Service-orientated attitude, proactive thinker, information seeker

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in business administration, public administration or Equivalent
  • 3-5 years of experience as a project manager in an agency, or in a Tech or governmental industry
  • Experience working with PR or advertising/creative agency a plus
  • Prior Content writing experience
  • PMP Certificate is a plus
  • Fluency in English and Arabic

Work Conditions

The physical abilities needed to perform the duties of this position, in addition to the office climate:

  • Office environment is general office setting
  • Some travel may be required
  • Must reside in Riyadh or be willing to relocate
  • Willing to work additional or irregular hours as needed and allowed by local regulations


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