Enterprise Project Manager

Are you tenacious, pragmatic, with a keen sense of humor? You just might be an Idealist.
At Idealist Consulting, we help organizations grow through Salesforce implementation, managed services, and custom application development. We are innovators and problem-solvers committed to global progressive action; delivering innovative technical solutions to empower organizations working on some of the world's most important causes and aspire to do no harm and benefit all.
As a part-time Enterprise Project Manager you will take charge of guiding client projects from inception to completion. You'll be responsible for translating client needs into technical requirements, managing project resources, and ensuring seamless communication between the client and our team.   This is a part-time contracted 1099 position.

How You'll Contribute

• Guide full project life cycle from requirements gathering to solution design and development, testing, and deployment
• Steering complex Enterprise-level implementations through various stages of development and deployment.
• Support translation of client needs into technical requirements
• Join and lead client-facing discovery sessions.
• Maintain and update Story Navigator as the central repository of project configuration, design, documentation, and user feedback
• Assist in quality testing prior to user testing
• Create and actively manage implementation schedules, project deliverables and milestones to ensure effective completion of project milestones, control project scope and mitigate risks.
• Coordinate client and Idealist Consulting project team meetings and communications, utilizing prescribed project management tools and platform to ensure continuity in communication and project quality
• Produce quality project deliverables, including kickoff presentations, project plans, status reports, budget burn reports, client requirements, design documentation, and deployment plans
• Work closely with client project team to identify, nurture, and guide client team
• Collaborate with Client Success Team and Service Delivery management as needed to resolve project or client communication roadblocks
• Proactively manage multiple, concurrent projects

Your Background Includes:

• Baseline:
• 3-7 years experience in a similar role
• Minimum certification: Salesforce Admin Certification
• Understanding of Nonprofit Cloud (NPC) (Certification preferred)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills - including translation of technical requirements to non-technical individuals