Technical Project Manager At Vera Solutions

Join our innovative, global team using technology to transform the way the social sector engages with data. We run on passion, blending diverse skill sets and experiences with a collective mission to help social impact organizations tackle challenges and achieve greater impact globally. We’re a self-motivated, creative group that encourages all staff to push their own boundaries and drive the company in exciting new directions. As a social enterprise and certified B Corporation, we reinvest a majority of our profits in our growth and continued pursuit of our mission and vision.

Position Overview

The Project Manager will lead Vera’s project consulting teams to design and configure operations/program monitoring, management, and evaluation systems for social impact organizations. Consultants manage client relationships and project delivery according to quality standards. They are involved throughout the entirety of a project’s lifecycle — gathering requirements, solution design, building and testing cloud-based data systems, providing training to system users, and supporting system implementation and rollout.

As a Project Manager, you’ll gain valuable experience with Salesforce – the world’s leading cloud-computing platform, currently used by more than 150,000 for-profit and 40,000 non-profit organizations worldwide. You will gain first-hand experience working with a diverse range of social sector clients while working in a global marketplace.

You will join our team of passionate humans with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all dedicated to improving the way social impact organizations operate. We’re a self-motivated, creative group, and we emphasize collaboration, flexibility, and professionalism. Vera is a young, rapidly growing company; we encourage all team members to push their own boundaries and drive the company in new directions.

Primary Responsibilities:

Manage Salesforce implementation projects and oversee technical project teams
Consult directly with our most important key clients; develop relationships and regularly communicate with active and prospective clients
Within the consulting team: develop and implement clear project plans, budgets, timelines, and development strategies for client engagements, oversee Vera’s project teams to ensure high-quality delivery on-time and on-budget
Lead internal and external project planning and kickoff; facilitate regular project team meetings with Vera and client stakeholders.
Manage resources within and between project teams to utilization and hours targets.
Contribute to business development including responding to RFPs, facilitating sales conversations, and scoping new projects
Contribute to Vera’s learning environment; manage, train, and coach junior staff
Remain informed on new technologies, methodologies, and tools relevant to non-profits and NGOs

Qualifications and Experience

Essential:

Bachelor’s degree — what you studied isn’t critical; what you’re passionate about is
6+ years professional experience
Project management of technology implementations or consulting experience and aptitude
Experience and ability to manage budgets and timelines to target on large enterprise-level projects and programmes
Demonstrated ability to develop and execute project work plans, including effective management of budget and timelines, profitability and high-quality delivery of technology solutions.
Strong organizational skills, including attention to detail, time management, and a demonstrable ability to define and refine requirements through a project lifecycle.
Analytical and problem-solving skills — do problems slow you down or drive you to seek solutions?
Strong aptitude for using technology and data
Demonstrated interest and experience in social sector work
Demonstrated leadership experience — you should be able to lead through setting a high standard of excellence and best practice as a high standard Project Manager.
The ability to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement in our processes and find ways to solve for them is critical to this role.
The ability to influence and advise senior internal stakeholders in how best to drive business and process improvement.
Demonstrated client relationship management experience — ability to manage senior client stakeholders to effective outcomes is a key requirement.
Excellent written and verbal communication and relational skills
Understanding of SLDC methodologies (Agile, Waterfall)