Project Manager – Job Description

Purpose – a New York based team that builds cutting-edge social and political movements – is looking for a talented project manager to join us. We’re not your average agency – Purpose is a unique hybrid that relies on a team of highly analytical, flexible, critical thinkers capable of turning traditional marketing and campaign strategy on its head and executing highly complex projects for advocacy organizations, sustainable brands, issue-driven films and many others.

The Project Manager at Purpose is the primary coordinator in charge of moving projects from inception to launch. With a focus on scheduling and resource allotment it is the PM\’s goal to ensure that both internal and client facing expectations are set appropriately, and updated when changes occur in the schedule.

Core responsibilities:

· Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.
· Assist in defining project scope, goals and deliverables.
· Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
· Effectively communicate project expectations to internal staff and clients.
· Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
· Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary during project cycle.
· Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
· Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.
· Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
· Track project milestones and deliverables.
· Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
· Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.
· Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.
· Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.
· Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
· Minimizes our exposure and risk on project.

Requirements:
· Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Technology or related field.
· Minimum 3 years of project management or software development.

Preferred: Agile Methodology Personnel If you\’re interested in finding out more, please send a short CV and brief cover note ASAP outlining your relevant experience to jobs at purposecampaigns.com. Pay will be competitive and based on experience.We have a strong preference for candidates based in New York City or willing to relocate, but if you think you might be a strong fit, we\’d like to hear from you anyway.

About Us
Our principals David Madden and Jeremy Heimans co-founded GetUp.org – an Australian online political movement that is now larger than all Australia\’s political parties put together and Avaaz.org, the world\’s largest online political community with more than 3.3 million members (a partnership with MoveOn.org).

Purpose is currently advising advocacy groups and progressive companies around the world and is also incubating new issue-based movements. We\’re a new, unusual and evolving combination of an agency and a home for political and social entrepreneurship.

Purpose just launched LIVESTRONGAction.org – a global movement for a world without cancer led by the Lance Armstrong Foundation. We’ve also advised GlobalZero.org – a new global campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons spearheaded by Richard Branson, Queen Noor, Jimmy Carter and Mikhail Gorbachev; the 2007 presidential campaign of Segolene Royal, the first woman to win a major party nomination for President of France; the Australian and US labor movements. We’re also building a movement centered on access to healthcare for a Fortune 100 company and a re-launching a global brand targeting women’s self-esteem and body image.

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