Project Advisor Job Description
Project advisor
provides design guidance and leadership within Gas Distribution Engineering Team and align with other critical stakeholders within Gas Asset Management as well as external organizations such as Gas Strategy, Planning & Scheduling, Gas Construction, Gas Operations, Real Estate, Supply Chain and Enterprise Project Management.
Project Advisor Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Supporting project development and design activities by advising on project scope elements related to construction and constructability
Develop training materials on project management and writing project proposals
Develop and manage a project plan and timeline that covers estimates, requirements, design, construction, test, deployment and benefit tracking
For a program or complex project, develops and manages to a project plan and timeline that covers estimates, requirements, design, construction, test, deployment and benefit tracking
May be responsible for driving complex, high priority implementations, conversions, projects or component phases of larger programs
Scope is defined, approved, managed, controlled
Assist the justice institutions in enhancing project management skills and writing project proposals by gathering information on project nature, objectives/ outcomes, outputs, deliverables, project implementation, human resource, budget and costing, monitoring and evaluation, timeline, risks and issues and other required information
Coordinate with the JSSP embedded staff in assessing current practices and procedures within the justice institutions
Help the justice institutions in determining proposal concept by identifying and clarifying opportunities and needs
Assist justice institutions in coordinating requirements for the project from different stakeholders involved in the project proposal writing
Project Advisor Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Project Advisor
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, PMI, CAPM, CSM, ITIL, SOX, PE, PRINCE2, LSSBB, GAT
Education for Project Advisor
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the project advisor job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and University Degree in Engineering, Business/Administration, Information Technology, Education, Computer Science, Business, Project Management, Technical, Information Systems, Economics
Skills for Project Advisor
Desired skills for project advisor include:
Microsoft Office applications
Practical situations
Gas Distribution operations
Design
Development and IT operations
IT analysis
Materials
Project management theories and concepts
Regulatory and compliance requirements for Gas operations
SCG accounting requirements
Desired experience for project advisor includes:
Pleasant personality, strong organization, time management planning skills
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in fields such as computer science, engineering and or business administration, preferred but not required
8+ years DT/NB/AIO Project Management Experience (ODM PM experience is preferred)
Bachelor degree with a technical major, such as engineering or computer science, or equivalent experience
Engage Product Owners, Portfolio, and Program Managers to fulfill their individual roles, including but not limited to, communicating the Product Vision, Goals and Objectives, establishing a strategic thinking perspective, regular attendance at Agile Ceremonies, and prioritization of Backlog Items
Facilitate and assist in the definition of scope, including the creation of User Stories with Acceptance Criteria, Product Backlogs, Defect Backlogs, Release Plans, Backlog Prioritization, identifying key dependencies and risks
Project Advisor Examples
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a project advisor. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for project advisor
- Provide regular reporting on work activities
- Conduct training and mentoring in the justice institutions
- Maintain current knowledge of Budget, Human Resource, National Priority Program (NPP), Ministry Strategy, Ministry Policy and other significant documents related to ministry that would be helpful in developing project proposals
- Liaise with the Ministry of Economy, Civil Service Institute, Donors and other agencies as needed
- Particularly assist local national project management and proposal writing advisors with mentoring institutional staff regarding the improvement of management skills and writing of proposals necessary to implement in-house training
- Develop capacity of JSSP local national colleagues to help in transition
- Perform any other duties as assigned by the Section Lead, Technical Director, Deputy Chief of Team-Advisors and Chief of Team
- Developing and managing project plans to ensure execution of key business objectives
- Ensuring all key deliverables on projects are successfully met, working in partnership with internal and external partners (including technology, marketing, product business areas, consultants)
- Perform project analysis, manage risks, identify and influence necessary course corrections
Qualifications for project advisor
- Familiarity with wireline / wireless telecommunications industry including Public Switched Telecommunications Network and services preferred
- Proven experience of Compute (Servers, OS and Virtualization) & reasonably well versed with Storage technologies and concepts
- Good understanding of state of art technology stack like Restful API, web services, Java Enterprise, ESB, Databases, SOA
- Familiarity with traditional project management (Waterfall methodology) is a plus
- Must be local to the Reston, VA area
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent with a minimum 6 years’ experience in customer service or IT industry experience
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a project advisor. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for project advisor
- Proven ability to administer customer satisfaction initiatives for feedback and improvement campaigns
- Schedule Management - Working with team leads, functional managers, and project support staff (Architects, DBA’s, ) to create, maintain, and manage the project schedule
- Resource Management - Building strong teams
- Coordinate with and support the IP in preparation of stakeholder consultations to get their feedback and comments on the initiative and ensure they are reflected in the inception report
- Support the IP to prepare the multi-year and annual work plans for 2017-2020
- Finalize Terms of References (TORs) for all positions to be recruited for the project implementation after the project formal launch in close consultation with IP and relevant stakeholders
- If necessary), update the Project Results Resources Framework (RRF) with the inclusion of the updated/refined indicators, baseline information and targets
- Keep key stakeholders abreast of the updates and adjustments in the work plan, M&E plan, stakeholder engagement plan
- Provide excellent and foresighted presentations and regular updates to senior management, Project Initiations stakeholders (eg
- Provides excellent support to the regional Global Engineering organization
Qualifications for project advisor
- Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience with SFDC
- Deep understanding of Finance areas including Order Management, Collections, Tax, Reporting, Controls
- Degree in MIS, Finance, Accounting or computer science
- Must be able to shift work hours to a region’s
- Effectively collaborates with other team members to ensure project requirements are delivered on time and meet specifications
- Project Management subject matter expertise and experience, 6+ years and 3+ years of customer-facing experience in project/program mgmt
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Our company is looking for a project advisor. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for project advisor
- Support the development and design of freight rail facilities for Class I railways across North America
- Works with the School of Education and Social Policy leadership to develop a strategic program model with milestones/benchmarks and implementation tactics
- Serves as a principal advisor to OBO/CM and oversees the planning, organizing, coordinating of activities, resources, equipment and information for large single and/or multiple projects
- Works closely with OBO/CM to ensure contract stipulations and requirements are properly followed by all contractors who perform maintenance and construction activities/projects in support of OBO
- Identifies a variety of alternatives for meeting current and anticipated project requirement and advises the Project Director on how to meet project needs from the availability of contractors and their expertise to the employable use of local assets, USG or contract
- Ensures that all documents are well-written, in proper format, timely, complete, and fully coordinates with other affected organizations
- Develops detailed written assessments of the effectiveness of OBO projects
- Ensures all project objectives are met and that resulting recommendations for action are sound and practical and include implantation plans
- Provides technical guidance and advice to employees assigned to OBO/CM section
- Serves as the principal advisor to the Facilities Manager
Qualifications for project advisor
- Strong Experience in Project Management of IT Infrastructure Server, Storage, complex Networking Deployment
- As part of the industrial, HD and strategic project team, the role holder will lead or facilitate other business related projects as per to business’ needs
- 9 years of experience with a minimum of 5 years in data analysis and/or application product management
- Proven experience in managing medium to large scale projects/programs
- Proven experience in the use of project methodologies (i.e., Agile, MS Project, MS Office)
- Proven experience in understanding Platform related technologies – Servers (UNIX and x86, virtualization, Mainframe, iSeries, DC migration, transition, consolidation and migration engagements.)
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of project advisor. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for project advisor
- Develops and/or reviews planning documents
- Performs peer review of plans, specification, and technical reports prepared by others
- Identifies a variety of alternatives for meeting current and anticipated project requirement and advises the Facility Manager on how to meet project needs from the availability of contractors and their expertise to the employable use of local assets, USG or contract
- Develops detailed written assessments of the effectiveness of Facilities projects
- Works closely with the key stakeholders in planning complex, high priority special projects involving Facilities
- Provides technical guidance and advice to employees assigned to Facilities areas
- Responsible for communication/coordination between Contractors on critical interfaces
- May Provide interface activity reporting and feedback to Interface and Execution Manager
- Primary contact with Contractors’ organizations is through Contractors’ Interface Managers
- Liaises with other Project Interface Advisors as required to manage interfaces
Qualifications for project advisor
- Proactively providing coaching and mentoring to individuals and teams for Project Management best practices, continuous process improvement and customer satisfaction initiatives
- 5+ years of IT Project Management experience demonstrated by a proven track record of success in multiple complex projects and/or programs
- Demonstrate ability to work collaboratively with other Offering Delivery teams to meet on-boarding schedules
- Experience with finance reporting, accounting and analysis processes is a plus
- At least 5 years relevant work experience in the management/oversight of projects
- Proven experience in managing project financed by GEF-Land Degradation and/or Sustainable Forest Management Fund
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a project advisor. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for project advisor
- Ensures Contractors implement effective Interface Registers and updates the registers as required in areas of work scope
- Facilitates discussions/agreements between main Contractors where interface problems have arisen
- Works with Contractors and Project Engineers to resolve interface issues
- Assists Contractors with Interface Coordination meetings
- Provide day-to-day guidance to Project Controls professionals in order to achieve the organizations specific objectives
- Develop standardized, compliant, and scalable processes, procedures and systems related to Cost, Schedule, Risk, Project Lifecycle and Reporting for use within the LP Projects programs and projects
- Working with the project team to create rail yard development plans, phasing plans and strategy for capacity expansion
- Meeting with 4-5 assigned student teams at least once a week (typically a minimum of 30 minutes with each team weekly), and usually in the 8am to 11am T/Th timeslot
- Attending bi-weekly PA meetings which are typically held on Thursdays at 11am
- Attending the Trade Fair event which is held once per semester before graduation
Qualifications for project advisor
- Providing day to day leadership, management and coordination of all activities pertaining to project direction, goal setting, planning, estimating, resource allocation and assignments, project health and reporting, problem resolution and collaboration with key stakeholders to ensure project goals are met
- Experience in developing log-frames and SMART-based indicators for GEF financed projects
- Undergraduate degree and 4+ years of Project Management experience
- Demonstrated or expressed interest in learning about the field of Gifted-Education, by reading, attending conferences, making presentations
- Knowledge of regulations governing the acquisition of equipment, personnel, and supplies required to support Embassy operations
- Ability to interact effectively with individuals in garnering cooperation and support for key planning and project management initiatives in the assigned program area