IT Project Management Officer

Job title

IT Project Management Officer

Level

Experienced/Master

Location

Amsterdam or online

Startdate

May 2020

Contract

6-12 months

Hours per month

Parttime 12 hours for the first two months and we scale up after two months

IMPORTANT: The candidate is expected to have extensive and proven experience with the Wordpress plugin Learndash, the online learning system. Further with Wordpress, PHP, CSS, MySQL

Introduction
We are a neuroscientific educational institute based in the Netherlands. We work with the Wordpress plugin Learndash.com for our online monthly video courses. We develop additional Learndash software in India which needs to integrate flawlessly with our back office system in the USA. We need someone that can help us to optimizing the current project and portfolio management methodologies. He/she also needs to guide the processes and tooling we will need in the near future. Do you have experience in facilitating management software functional design decision making, by providing timely and accurate project/portfolio analysis, reporting and dashboards? Can you make sure all IT processes will run smoothly and in time and guide the programmers in India to do their job right? Do you have experience in working with programmers from India? Are you the all-round project management officer that can advise, challenge and facilitate project managers on content, process and project quality in the various phases of their projects.

PMO
As an IT Project Management Officer, you support a dedicated part of the IT project & program development. You work closely together with the developers team in India and the USA. You challenge project managers and their programmers to deliver top quality and stable platforms that integrate flawlessly among each other. By providing clear analysis and insight on project progress, portfolio health, issues and risks to the management, you are an important facet in managerial decision making. We start slow with around 10 hours a month due to the Corona situation and build up from there because we are rolling out internationally in 2020, 2021 and will build a lot of software ongoing towards the future.

Experience

• 5-7 Years of working experience in project/portfolio management in a large, international organization, working as project management officer, or a similar position

• Experience in data analysis and creation of reports/dashboards, with a customer focused design (look-and-feel)

• Experience with implementation of online learning systems like Learndash, changes and improvement of existing PHP software and database systems, or the ability to do so

• Sound knowledge of project & portfolio management methodologies

• Sound knowledge of and working experience with Agile and Scrum

• Experience in facilitation of development teams in India

• Experience with project financials/budgets

• Working knowledge of MS Office products: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Project and SharePoint Online

• Nice to have: a fun sociable happy personality, because you do what you love an love what you do. In your live there is no room for negative stress.