Job Description
Company Description
Passion for Life, Inc. is a 501©(3) organization. Our mission is to provide forward-thinking career coaching and immersion opportunities driven by the student’s passions and talents in a fun, structured, and high-energy environment, helping under-resourced youth transform their passions into rewarding careers.
Job Description
Passion for Life is seeking a volunteer Project Manager. This is a great role to obtain PDUs or project management experience. The Project Manager will support the team leaders and team in overseeing and managing projects and initiatives. This role develops, coordinates, and implements project tasks and activities.
Role Responsibilities:
Creating Projects in Asana
Assists the team leader and teams in creating projects and subtasks (steps to achieve the project)
Managing and Communicating Within Projects
Assists team leader by coordinating project tasks to ensure all project milestones are achieved. Frequently follows up with team members to check progress on tasks being performed by the project teams especially those that are overdue or unassigned.
Communicates project activities to team members and PFL’s organization project manager (Director of Project Management).
Create and maintain team meeting minutes and manage the meetings’ project progress and status reports segment. Disseminate meeting recap after each team meeting, assembling any required documentation for projects in Asana.
Report Project Status
Updates project status on Asana and sends updates stakeholders.
Complete and maintain the monthly progress report to share in company meetings.
Qualifications
Desired Skills:
Leadership skills
Ability to prioritize and manage work against critical project timelines
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to juggle multiple priorities
Proven experience in identifying, analyzing, problem-solving and responding to internal and external opportunities and challenges with the ability to translate these into practical plans of action
Ability to lead and work collaboratively and support others in the development and implementation of agreed strategies within team and wider organizational contexts
Must be a self-starter and possess the ability to work well with others
Collaborate on projects as both a team leader and a team member
Must possess initiative and creativity; a highly developed work ethic
Additional Information
Qualifications
- One year of project coordination or management experience (required)
Time Commitment: 8 hours weekly for 6 months
Note: Please apply if your current location is USA (Central and EST), other locations are not eligible
