Project Associate Job Description
Project Associate Duties & Responsibilities
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Project Associate Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Project Associate
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Education for Project Associate
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Employers hiring for the project associate job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Education, Business, Business/Administration, Economics, Communication, Associates, Public Policy, Engineering, Computer Science, Computer
Skills for Project Associate
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Project Associate Examples
Project Associate Job Description
- Attending project meetings, Assisting with the development and maintenance of a detailed project schedule
- Providing administrative and logistic support
- Assisting with special projects and reports, Preparing documents for meetings, Monitoring of the project budget and financial reporting
- Together with senior PM, plan the overall project schedule together with the project team
- Acquire necessary project resources (services, travels, material, etc)
- Ensure project stay on track towards initial plan by coaching and leveraging all team members unique expertise
- Manage the work streams throughout the project life cycle, making sure the team stay motivated and can move ahead unblocked
- Manage project budgets against defined scope and timeline, work with the account manager to close budget/effort gaps
- Issue change requests when needed
- Together with senior PM, manage and escalate project risks to schedule, budget and scope
- Familiarized with the Social landscape for Marketing using -- LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Paid-Search, SEO, SEM
- Business or technology related Degree or other Bachelor’s degree
- Passion for learning about the opportunities of technology within business
- Job Cost experience
- JD Edwards experience is highly preferred
- Monitors release KPIs and provide post-release reporting
Project Associate Job Description
- Develops and publishes project proposals and project plans
- Ensures assigned projects are implemented on time and on budget following established guidelines
- May manage project change control process to obtain agreement from sponsors and align project plan with approved changes to project scope
- Manages and controls activities of assigned project team members
- Defines and enforces processes on all projects
- Reviews regularly projects for progress against goal
- May assist System Change Management team with test plan development on major version changes, as needed
- Serves as back-up for team members as necessary
- Successfully manage the relationship with the all stakeholders
- Review solutions (external/ internal), make recommendation on what needs to be implement, develop blueprint and implementation plan, follow through implementation and establish tracking and reporting after implementation
- Participating in cross-project planning, Assisting with the planning, coordination and execution of projects
- Providing input on project proposal opportunities, budgets and work plans
- Preparing and formatting proposals and supporting documentation and sourcing of individual team/project members
- Manage project document management, support the preparation of audits, assessments and other compliance issues
- Ideally 4 years or more in Project Management having managed with a proven Project Management methodology 'standard' projects with full budget responsibility in a commercial environment
- Be autonomous and agile in changing environments, with a sense of initiative and pro-activity
Project Associate Job Description
- Coordinate with the Investments Solutions Technology Team to escalate and resolve issues/defects as appropriate
- Assist Investment Solutions Business with other ad hoc requests as needed which can include data collection and analysis
- Responsibility for driving success with multiple complex health system integration programs
- Program based metrics and management of interface delivery project managers to ensure that the critical path and milestone tasks are trending in accordance with project goals and analyzing variances to identify improvements in quality and efficiency
- Partner with internal departments (e.g., sales, product implementation, account management, Client Support) to educate, understand needs, respond to questions and provide critical communication, transaction support, coordinate execution and status updates regarding active program specific interface projects
- Maintain consistent contact with key client stakeholders groups included third party vendors and contributors to ensure effective communication, timely decision making and appropriate escalation paths
- Create and maintain overall project plan and timelines for key deliverables
- Analyze complex health system current interoperability state and design a future state utilizing a combination of General Availability and/or Limited Availability interface classes
- Works closely with key stakeholders to build, write, and execute requirements across multiple cross-functional projects
- Engage with users to understand business processes, key challenges, and day-to-day workflows
- Working knowledge of drug development process and client needs
- Ability to liaise with clients in a professional manner
- Proven ability to multi-task and manage priorities
- 2+ years’ experience in Mobile Service Development for Consumer brands
- Project Management at a digital agencies and/or consumer brand
- Experience from Enterprise Mobility
Project Associate Job Description
- Creates and/ or supports creation of operational documentation using internal systems
- Collects all information on a study design including coordination of shipments through the logistics department, and writing Distribution orders in a timely manner
- Support the preparation and revision process of contractual agreements with architects, consultants, clients, suppliers, and subcontractors
- Inspect and review projects to monitor compliance with building and safety codes
- Coordinate various integrated communication and marketing activities across a multi-channel marketing department
- Help establish project parameters and communicate parameters and progress cross-functionally
- Own the project management system to track and analyze data
- Strong communication skills, particularly writing, editing, and proofreading
- Creation and maintenance of client and office schedules
- Development of controls reports to produce weekly/monthly financial documents for client and internal management review
- Familiarity with the software development lifecycle and systems development processes
- Superior interpersonal skills and ability to work cross-functionally and effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders
- Highly motivated, inquisitive, self-started with the ability to multi-task and effectively manage priorities to meet deadlines
- Travel will generally be minimal, but will be required as necessary based on changing business needs and requirements
- Solid knowledge and experience of industry standard project management tools for financial and project reporting
- Able to build and motivate a cohesive and effective matrixed team regardless of physical location and cultural background of team members
Project Associate Job Description
- Rapidly learn current processes and constraints to inform and assist in the development of visions for optimal business processes
- Achieve measurable performance improvements
- Assess client needs and share Best Practice workflows and related documents to the client during the workflow development process
- Train, and guide clients on best practices and reference material to support all stakeholders in the process
- Demonstrate, provide guidance, and train on system configuration options and best practices
- QA tablespace configuration to ensure completeness and appropriateness of set up for customer
- Assist with daily functions of office, including shipping, filing, cleaning up data, list pulls
- Help prepare presentations for monthly executive meetings along with tracking the resulting action items
- Primary Project Management interface with members of Research to track status of upcoming target candidates and development candidates
- Generate monthly portfolio Gantts using the Portfolio Timeline Tool and post on the PM website
- 0-3 years of experience in project management, editorial and or other relevant experience in education-technology
- Prior Project Management experience a strong plus (such as experience managing budgets, schedules, logistics and projects)
- Some prior experience working with digital production tools, markup languages and PM tools ideal (such as HTML, XML, JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Skype and SharePoint)
- The ability to effectively set and manage multiple priorities strong time-management skills
- Proficiency in French or Spanish (written or verbal) a strong plus
- Diligent, efficient, self-motivated, extremely well organized and proactive