Project Manager

Open Society Foundations

Project Manager in IT Governance & Outsourcing at Open Society Foundations. Driving strategy conversations and managing IT-enabled projects across multiple countries.

Posted 7/3/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 $100,000 - $500,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in project management, change management, and risk management, with a strong focus on budget management and stakeholder engagement across diverse, multi-country environments. Proficient in utilizing project management frameworks and tools to drive efficiencies and optimize project delivery.

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Project ManagementChange ManagementRisk ManagementBudget ManagementIT Vendor Management

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Hard Skills

Project Management FrameworksBudget ManagementRisk ManagementChange Management TechniquesStakeholder Management

Soft Skills

CommunicationRelationship BuildingProblem SolvingMotivation

Tools & Technologies

Project Management ToolsChange Management Tools

Certifications & Qualifications

Project Management CertificationChange Management Certification

Industry Keywords

Multi-Country ConsultingIT GovernanceCross-Functional IT ImplementationsVendor Performance Monitoring

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Listen to internal customers and sponsors and help drive strategy conversations, create vision presentations, and develop complex project plans.
Understand the big picture and value delivery while focusing on efficiencies and optimizations.
Create and manage project budgets from USD $100K-$5m.
Create order and stability using project management techniques and tools as appropriate for the project context.
Seamlessly orchestrate time zones, milestones, deadlines, and dependencies across multiple projects at once.
Break silos by building relationships and processes for interacting with subject matter experts within IT and across the organization.
Communicate clearly to stakeholders and other audiences through sophisticated change management plans, training plans and project communication plans.
Manage relationships with external vendors, including negotiating contracts, monitoring and evaluating vendor performance, and ensuring compliance with contractual agreements.
Motivate and protect the project team, solve problems, remove obstacles, anticipate issues, and manage risk.
Have the ability to recognize when projects are struggling and to course-correct when necessary, including stopping projects that are not meeting objectives.
Embrace IT Governance processes and procedures, stakeholder management and change management processes and techniques.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven project manager operating in a complex multi-country consulting, for-profit, or non-profit organization.
Experience using industry standard project management frameworks, tools and techniques to manage multiple projects simultaneously from initiation to closing (project management and change management certifications are highly valued).
Proven experience with change management, risk management, IT vendor management and control, and budget management up to USD $5 million.
Experience managing diverse stakeholders in a matrix organization.
Experience managing cross-functional IT system implementations across multiple geographies and legal entities with an elevated IT security profile.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Generous time off, as well as our standard Open Society close at year-end (where vacation days are not required)
Flexible work arrangements
Employer-paid health insurance * and dental plans for individuals and families (no employee contribution required)
Exceptional retirement savings plan (non-contributory for employees) and life insurance.
Progressive paid parental leave, reproductive and family planning support, and much more.