Vacancy title:
Technical Project Manager
Jobs at:
AkvoDeadline of this Job:
31 January 2022
Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
Overview
Main tasks and responsibilities
• Lead design and technical requirements gathering workshops with a wide variety of stakeholders- government, multilaterals, donors, NGOs and other stakeholders
• Create “high quality” software development design documents and implementation plans
• Ensure timely delivery within budget and avoiding scope creep
• Be the scrum master / agile coach and coordinate/anchor design sprints
• Work on delivering a global platform in bi-weekly development sprints
• Look at the “big picture” of the product with the long term vision in mind. Be able to translate the big picture into smaller actionable details
• Cut through the clutter, create clarity, prioritize features and be able to highlight the actual needs towards the software development team
• Manage a distributed engineering team to translate user needs into functioning software
• Interact with our design team to communicate feature needs and discuss design approaches
• Conduct product presentations and demonstrations internally and externally
• Be able to deconstruct technicalities and communicate clearly to a lay audience
Team management
• Manage the product teams and oversee the execution of their goals and objectives
• Create a productive and positive work environment
• Motivate, coach and supervise team members (mostly remote)
Requirements
• At least two (2) years experience as a Project Manager or Product Owner for software products in a similar position preferably in an organisation working with agile methodologies;
• Some experience/understanding of data solutions for international development
• Proven experience and skills li connecting business needs to technology
• A clear communicator with a strong set of intercultural communication skills
• Experience in working with a remote team;
• A creative problem solver with a good understanding of user needs and experience in balancing competing requirements with limited resources
• Ability to think on his/her feet, deal with fuzziness and work with minimum guidance
• Experience/expertise with demanding deadlines and partners. Ability to pushback in polite but firm manner in case of ‘unreasonable’ requests
Good to have
• Experience of working with NGOs and governments
• Experience in software architecture / design thinking
What we offer
• This assignment is a commitment of 40 hours/week for a period of 1 year and can be extended afterwards
• Opportunity to contribute to the design of a growing open-source platform and work with interesting technologies in a creative and entrepreneurial environment together with highly motivated colleagues
• A unique chance to work with tools that contribute to achieving higher efficiency and better results for the development aid sector
• You will be part of our international Akvo community, with colleagues all over the world.
• Remuneration in line with the market
For this position we are open for applicants located in most locations . Preferably you’ll be based within a maximum of 3 hours difference of the Central European Time zone.
Education Requirement: No Requirements
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 12
Job application procedure
Akvo works with a diverse and international team, divers in gender, culture, age and religion. This makes us unique and we want to promote diversity in our organisation. If you think you are the right person for this position, we highly encourage everyone to apply for this position.
Send your motivation letter and resume in English in PDF to Karen Blanken via work@akvo.org with the subject line “Application Technical Project Manager”, or apply via our website: akvo.org/join-our-team/.
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