22/02/2024
LF: Experienced Task Manager/Analyst for Professional Services Company
Hourly rate: $5 - $7
Hereâs a quick video introducing the opportunity to work for Rhino Squad: www.loom.com/share/571ac017b6834da6a2d6955f0e0921d1?sid=170295e9-acac-4ac9-9dd2-45cb5928b008
Iâm Rhino Julie, and I LOVE building super teams to service our clients' needs.
If you love a challenge, love problem solving, love working with others (and also love working by yourself LOL), and it makes you happy when you overdeliver for clients, I want you on my team!
My promise to you:
*I provide a FUN working environment.
*We are constantly learning new things.
*We are a team who wants to be the best at what we do, which means you have the BEST teammates.
*I ALWAYS pay on time.
*I treat all of my team members with respect and love.
Client Overview:
Our client, Drew, is in search of an individual to effectively manage his team of fractional executives. This is not an IT/technical project manager role. Candidates must have business project management experience in a professional services environment, otherwise please do not apply.
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Business Project Manager/Business Analyst to help a clientâs team. This role is ideal for someone who excels in managing and scoping business projects within a professional services setting, and not IT projects. The successful candidate will be instrumental in working with our clientâs internal project leads to plan out client engagements, track the ex*****on of those engagements, and providing timely updates to their supervisors.
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Key Responsibilities:
*Project Scoping and Management: Develop detailed project plans, ensuring resource availability and allocation, and delivering every project on time within budget and scope.
*Task Master: Act as a task master to hold everyone accountable, ensuring tasks and milestones are met diligently.
*Senior Management Reporting: Provide comprehensive and accurate visibility into all client projects to senior management, ensuring they are always informed.
*Advanced Excel Analysis: Utilize advanced Excel skills to support the company in various analysis and reporting projects.
*System Implementation: Collaborate with the operations team to identify the most suitable project management system. Lead the design and implementation of this system, optimizing our project management processes.
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Qualifications:
*Proven experience as a Business Project Manager/Business Analyst in a professional services environment.
*Strong understanding of business processes and project management principles.
Exceptional leadership, time management, and organizational skills.
*Advanced proficiency in Excel (e.g., pivot tables, vlookups, complex formulas).
*Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a knack for holding people accountable.
Experience in designing and implementing project management systems is highly desirable.
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Program Management Office
The purpose of a Program Management Office is to put in place the right people, processes, and systems to support oversight and consistent delivery of multiple programs and projects. Given some of the challenges and the current systems being used to track the different client engagements, especially during the critical startup phase, I believe that by starting to build out a program management function we can help with the short term task management while also building out a long term system to support the successful scaling of Focused Energy. I see this being implemented in a series of short and medium term phases:
Phase I - Hire a Project Manager
Timeline: Hire: 1-2 weeks | Post Hire: 2-3 weeks
Given that Lindsey has a broad role and is about to go on maternity leave, it is critical to quickly hire a project manager who can start tracking all current client engagements and providing timely updates on status and risks. Based on my experience, I have found that overseas resources are a cost effective place to hire these types of resources (at least in the short term). So either using the agency (rhinosquad.org/) that Drew identified, or a direct UpWorks hire we should be able to get someone on board in the next 1-2 weeks to take on the following tasks:
*Find, organize, and review all current client SOW project plans
*Work with the Client Leads to get updates to current plans and make any adjustments on task timing
*Work with sales and Client Leads to review and put in place plans for any new client engagements
*On a weekly basis, review with Client Leads all current project plans to identify any delays or risks and produce a weekly report for the Leadership Team identifying all engagements, current status, any delays, and any risks
Phase II - Evaluate and Recommend a PM System
Timeline: 2 weeks
Once the project manager has completed Phase I and produced at least 2 weeks of updates so that they demonstrate a full understanding of the client engagements and project planning process, we need to identify a more manageable and scalable system other than the current system of multiple Google Sheets files for project management. The PM will evaluate and test two potential approaches: a) Expanding the current usage of AirTable to incorporate templated project management, or b) evaluating dedicated project management systems (like Asana). They will then present a recommendation and sample of what the implementation would look like.
Phase III - Implement and Document New PM System
Timeline: 2-3 weeks
Once the Leadership Team has agreed to the PM System and implementation design, the PM will work to migrate all current client project plans to the new system, train the Client Leads and Leadership Team on the new system, and document the system and its use and management.
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If you know in your heart this job is for you, please do the following 3 things:
1) Email at [email protected], your interest in this position, and use "I'm Drewâs Unicorn" in the subject line of your email.
2) Include a link to your resume and/or portfolio.
3) Send a short introduction video letting us know why youâre a great fit for the role (less than 90 seconds)
We have many positions available, so even if this one isn't a perfect fit, if you are a hard worker who loves learning and pays attention to the details, we will probably have something else available for you!