- Provide project management rigor to large/complex and/or politically sensitive policy and practice strategic initiatives.
- Collaborate with program to develop well-defined proposals, project charters, and other planning documents.
- Work with project leads to develop a project organization structure with clearly defined roles and responsibilities.
- Manage, document and control project(s) to achieve each project's goals, scope, budget, schedule, quality, and other applicable performance standards.
- Regularly monitor, document and report on project progress against the plan.
- Plan, lead and participate in project and steering committee meetings.
- Document changes in scope, budget or schedule. Coordinate sign-offs and communicate changes with working groups/committees and project team.
- Ensure that risks are proactively identified with mitigation strategies developed.
- Resolve and/or appropriately escalate project issues.
- Complete proper hand-over of project outputs including all relevant project documentation to project team.
- Engage project stakeholders by eliciting their opinion and sharing project updates regularly.
- Identify project milestones, critical success factors, and resource requirements.
- Contribute to project deliverables where needed, e.g. research, survey design, drafting reports, etc. to ensure quality and timely delivery of deliverables.