Assistant Project Manager

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Identify continuous improvement opportunities and prepare project documents and reports.
• Conduct assurance reviews, resolve findings, and support project delivery to time, budget, and quality expectations.
• Prepare handover documentation and user training; contribute to closeout reviews and lessons learned.
• Plan workstreams, draft project reports, and manage project resources, costs, forecasts, and variances.
• Manage risks, issues, dependencies, constraints, and project scope definition; escalate concerns and implement solutions.
• Lead a small project team, coordinate work, and support team development through training, coaching, and mentoring.
• Elicit, analyze, document, and manage requirements; coordinate verification of project deliverables.
• Plan stakeholder engagement and assign short-term team schedules.

Education and experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent level.
• Sound experience and understanding of straightforward procedures or systems; general experience is listed as 7 to 12 months.
• Basic experience coordinating the work of others; managerial experience is listed as 4 to 6 months.

Skills and competencies

• Project and program data management, prioritization, benefits, change, communications, estimating, quality, scope, tracking, and reporting.
• Requirements traceability, stakeholder expectation management, strategic alignment, and use of project management systems and tools.
• The profile emphasizes effective communication, stakeholder balance, decision quality, accountability, planning, resourcefulness, adaptability, and continuous improvement.