Project Manager

Mercy Ships is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Project Manager to lead various organizational initiatives, ensuring successful planning, execution, and delivery of projects.

The Project Manager will be pivotal in driving project success through effective leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and robust stakeholder engagement.

The Project Manager works to fulfill organizational goals by coordinating activities between multiple workstreams by managing the Project, developing and implementing the Project strategies to achieve business objectives, managing interdependencies between projects and workstreams, ensuring resources are appropriately distributed between projects and workstreams, and managing project delegation, and implementation.

The Project Manager must have the ability to inspire and guide project team resources toward achieving common goals.

How You’ll Contribute

Project Planning and Execution:

• Develop comprehensive project plans outlining tasks, timelines, and resource requirements.
• Oversee the execution of project plans, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and standards.
• Utilize standardized project management processes and documentation throughout the project lifecycle.
• Monitor project progress and make adjustments as necessary to ensure successful completion.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement project solutions.
• Facilitate effective communication and coordination among project stakeholders, ensuring a unified approach towards project goals.
• Promote adherence to standardized processes and documentation.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Requirements Gathering:
• Engage with key stakeholders to gather detailed requirements and understand business needs.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into effective project solutions.
• Lead comprehensive requirements-gathering efforts, ensuring all stakeholder expectations are captured and integrated into the project scope.

Change Management:

• Develop and implement robust change management strategies to support organizational transitions.
• Engage with stakeholders to understand their needs and concerns, and proactively address resistance to change.
• Ensure adequate training and support mechanisms are in place to facilitate user adoption and minimize disruptions.
• Documentation and Knowledge Transfer:
• Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including technical specifications, user guides, and change management plans.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer sessions to ensure understanding and adoption of new processes and tools.
• Promote the use of standardized processes and documentation across all project activities.
• Other duties as assigned

The Ideal Candidate

• Supportive of Mercy Ships mission and vision and committed to its core values.
• Understand and apply servant leadership principles, work collaboratively with integrity, and demonstrate accountability.
• Able to contribute to community life, requiring stable and healthy interpersonal skills.
• Extensive experience with formal project management methodologies and best practices
• Ability to organize projects and activities in accordance with the missions and goals of the organization
• Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience interacting with all levels of the organization including Executive Leadership and Senior Management, which may include educating, influencing, and negotiating
• Be process oriented, have an attention to detail and a strong analytical problem-solving ability
• Ability to adapt to evolving project requirements and priorities.
• An ability to adjust quickly in response to re-organization, strategy or priority changes and shifting customer needs
• An ability to use servant leadership, strong resource management and inter-personal skills to attract, motivate and develop an effective, creative, and collegial team
• Must be able to work effectively in a matrix environment, particularly influencing without final decision authority and leading while not owning desired outcomes.
• Ability to evaluate projects and programs to assess strengths and identify areas for improvement
• Produce accurate and timely reporting of project status throughout its lifecycle
• Ability to travel, including international travel for up to a month at a time for onsite management of project.
• Experience in Agile or Scrum methodologies is a plus.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in project management.
• Proven track record of successfully leading cross-functional teams and managing change in complex projects.
• Minimum 5 years of leadership experience leading complex, global, and diverse teams
• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification or equivalent is preferred