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Freelance Senior Project Manager – Social
Crispin is seeking an organized and goal-oriented Senior Project Manager to join our dynamic agency. Project Managers are responsible for leading a project internally from its inception to execution. They will work closely with Account Services and Practice teams to deliver projects on time and on budget. Project Managers must possess effective cross-organizational leadership skills. They will need to prioritize, plan and execute against multiple concurrent projects. This is a temporary position with an expected commitment of 40 hours per week.
Responsibilities:
- Produce scopes of work, estimates, and project schedules/plans that accurately reflect the budget and client expectations
- Proactively manage risks, offer solutions, and collaborate with team leads to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes and manage scope changes.
- Lead internal project communication
- Ensure that projects remain on schedule, within budget, and requirements are met
- Analyze and prioritize project tasks to determine workload for resources
- Own project status, progress, and deliverables through continuous communication
- Actively mitigate project risks and proactively identify solutions
- Foster the exchange of ideas, takeaways, and best practices between the project management team and practices
- Ensure practice teams are compliant with agency process and deliverable standards
- Anticipate project overages and/or deviation from project scope and recommend action as needed
- Prepare and analyze project status reports and disseminate relevant information to the project team
Requirements:
- Ability to work Eastern Time zone hours to overlap with the client
- Ability to start immediately
- Ability to work 40 hours per week
- 5 years of project management experience – preferably
- working with, or for, a creative agency
- Experience leading and delivering on social-first creative and Creator/Influencer-led work streams
- Experience managing integrated campaigns across multiple channels (digital, social, print, experiential)
- Proficiency in Adobe Workfront is required
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Excellent organization, communication and assertiveness
- Strong time management skills
- Proficiency using the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)