Center for Policing Equity

Project Manager

• Support the Senior Science Advisor’s project oversight by proactively managing the scope, timeline, and budget in alignment with the signed work agreement.
• Build, track, and monitor the project plan, in Asana, with milestones, tasks, and relevant dependencies outlined.
• Collaborate with the Senior Science Advisor to monitor project goals and success metrics.
• Coordinate with the full project team, including internal and external stakeholders to monitor progress on, and blockers to, project deliverables.
• Identify and escalate risks and mitigation strategies in a timely manner, coordinating with the appropriate stakeholders to successfully resolve them.
• Generate agendas for recurring project team meetings, making sure to incorporate enough lead time for input.
• Document key decisions and needs during internal and external project meetings, ensuring timely follow-up on next steps.
• Maintain clear and consistent communication with the project team and leadership stakeholders through written and verbal updates.
• Organize and maintain up-to-date project documentation to support collaboration between all members of the project team.
• Facilitate an effective project close process, holding a retrospective and ensuring all relevant files are accurate and accessible to stakeholders, and that any information needed to inform future scopes of work is readily available.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with other PMO team members to ensure project resource allocation is balanced against other project priorities.
• Consult regularly with the Portfolio Manager to discuss project progress and (where necessary) adapt project management strategies.
• Other duties as assigned by the Portfolio Manager.

Senior Project Manager