Project Management Officer, Public Relations

The Project Management Officer 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

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 Abu Dhabi or be willing to relocate
• Willing to work additional or irregular hours as needed and allowed by local regulations