Project Communications

• You work partly on communications content and partly on project management. Consider this role as a landing job (~2 years) to transition into a content-focused communications role over the next few years.
• You help coordinate multi-disciplinary stand-alone projects and lead sub-projects, predominantly in support of strategic communications teams collaborating with executive leadership.
• You own the project plan and the delivery of results.
• You understand and apply industry standards for project management (adapted to the comms function) and are able to lead others on the project.
• Project timelines are typically 3–6 months, with generally 1–3 FTE resources and often external suppliers involved.
• You build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, including regional communications colleagues, internal customers, and external partners to ensure successful program delivery.
• As a member of the Strategy, Insights & Operations team, you play an active role in furthering the maturity of the comms function through improvement and change projects on the topics of Strategy, Insights, Operations, and Governance.

Responsibilities.

• Business Needs / Improvements: Plans and coordinates the identification and elicitation of requirements; analyzes those requirements for completeness and alignment; documents and manages requirements throughout the life of the project; and coordinates verification of the end deliverable. Identifies opportunities for improvement; proposes and makes improvements to work processes, generally done at the project level.
• Project Planning / Roadmap: Produces workstream or project plans, ensuring all activities are identified and appropriately organized to deliver project objectives, and comply with the organization's project management framework.
• Project Team Management: Leads a small project team; communicates the outcomes needed and direction to achieve them; coordinates team actions on project tasks; requests additional team member support when needed; and identifies areas for improvement to build team capability through training, coaching, and mentoring.
• Project Resource Management: Manages deployment of project resources, proactively managing project costs, providing forecasts, and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization.
• Project Governance: Ensures project compliance with the organization's wider program and/or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes.
• Stakeholder Management and Advising: Plans and delivers stakeholder engagement activities to develop effective project working relationships and to ensure stakeholder needs and concerns are identified and met.
• Project Risk and Issue Management: Identifies and evaluates risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating where appropriate. Reviews and solves problems (technical, process, logistic), prioritizes, informs stakeholders, and escalates as necessary.
• Project Review / Reporting: Drafts project review reports and presentations, including key information, commentary and recommendations to support the review process and enable stakeholders to evaluate progress and agree on change.
• Project Benefit Realization: Carries out baseline assessments and post-implementation analyses to contribute to the measurement and tracking of business benefits.
• People Development: Organizes team structure (roles and responsibilities) and meeting rhythm. Mentors project team members.

• 4+ years of work experience in a high-tech environment.
• 2+ years of experience in project and delivery management within an organization (for instance as a PL, PO, SM, Output Leader, PMO, etc.).
• Understanding of a company's products, technology, and organization.
• Ambition to move into a communications career path, willing to join a formal training program to support your transition.