Lone Rock Point is hiring a
Freelance/Part-Time Digital Project Manager

Summary

Lone Rock Point is seeking a tech-savvy Project Manager to assist their team in coordinating key projects. The role involves ensuring project requirements, deadlines, and schedules are on track, utilizing digital tools like JIRA, Omni Plan, Google Spreadsheets, and others. The ideal candidate should have a background in business skills, management, and analysis, be comfortable managing multiple tasks, and have problem-solving aptitude.

Requirements

• Strong familiarity with project management software tools (including Jira)
• Proven working experience as a project manager in the information technology sector
• Solid technical background, with understanding or firsthand experience in software development and web technologies
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Solid organizational skills including diligence and multi-tasking skills
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office

Responsibilities

• Scheduling and attending meetings
• Creating a project plan
• Managing due dates
• Developing project scopes and objectives
• Ensuring resource allocation
• Developing and managing a detailed project schedule and work plan
• Managing changes in project scope, schedule, and costs
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools, and techniques
• Report and escalate to management as needed
• Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
• Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various departments about strategy, adjustments, and progress
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Drive project completion by solving problems and overcoming obstacles
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
• Manage and track progress on sprints and epics
• Contribute to task estimation and sprint retrospectives
• Keeping informed on development progress and communicating expected deliverables
• Utilize industry best practices, techniques, and standards throughout entire project execution
• Monitor progress and adjust as needed
• Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement
• Meeting with project team members to identify and resolve issues
• Run reports and set up reporting systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to collaborate with organizational leaders
• High frequency of communication with stakeholders
• Prompt response time and high availability