Project Manager – 4777 at CRI Group Full Time

CV Submission until 01.07.2024

Service delivery: Near – site, Brussels 

The services shall be performed remotely in Near-site location allowing to reach the Commission premises in Brussels, Belgium within 2 hours. 

VASS, in partnership with the European Commission, is currently seeking a Project Manager to work from the European Commission in Brussels.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage the implementation of information systems to meet identified business needs, acquiring and using the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales, and quality.
• Give proposals for project strategies, planning, definition of tasks and deliverables, review of project deliverables, quality control, risk analysis and management, status reports, problem reporting and management systems, follow up and organization.
• Participate in functional working groups and progress meetings.
• Implement Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review, Backlog Refinement, and Sprint Retrospective, fostering agile practices and ensuring optimal team performance
• Prepare and maintain project and quality plans and tracks activities against the plan, provide regular and accurate reports.
• Ensure that delivered systems are implemented within these criteria.
• Serve as a liaison between customers, development, and business teams, ensuring a deep understanding of end-user and business needs and providing recommendations for viable solutions to meet those needs.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor degree in Management or related field.
• Good knowledge of project management standards and methodologies (Project Scheduling, Strategic Planning, Financial Modelling, Budgeting, Forecasting, Performance Tracking).
• Good knowledge of Agile methodology, Scrum Management, Lean agile Meeting Facilitation
• Good technical knowledge on the projects aspects.
• Practical knowledge of reporting methods.
• Good knowledge of project management tools e.g. MS Project
• Ability to give presentations.
• Ability to apply high quality standards to all tasks.
• Ability to participate in multi-lingual meetings, good communication skills
• Leadership capability.
• Negotiation capability.
• Ability to adapt to unplanned changes or decisions.
• Risk assessment.

SPECIFIC EXPERTISE

• Excellent knowledge of JIRA/Confluence environment
• Excellent knowledge of MS Teams, MS Office, MS Project
• Working knowledge
• PMP certification will be considered an asset
• Prince2 certification will be considered an asset
• ITIL certification will be considered an asset