Freelance Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Taking ownership of projects and seeing them through to completion
• Managing work across various channels, including social and editorial content, influencer work, events, video etc.
• Creating timelines, booking and managing resources and ensuring that agency resources are used efficiently
• Scooping jobs and writing statements of work
• Managing budgets and reconciling each phase of the job
• Ensuring all work is signed off at the right stages, by the right people; both internal sign-off, and client approvals
• Ensuring all project team members also complete their timesheets in a timely fashion, ensuring accurate project actuals
• Tracking account health. This includes monitoring project progress, burn rate, budget management, third party and freelance team management and developing plans to course correct the team as needed

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, advertising, communications, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience in project management or a related field, with a focus on operations, team management and project planning
• Experience with a wide variety of marketing and content deliverable types
• Familiar with agency turn-around times and ways of working, good understanding of the dynamics of agency processes, and enjoy the pace and challenges this brings
• Proactive and good at foreseeing problems, with the ability to mitigate issues as soon as they are identified, propose creative solutions, and know when to escalate issues
• Detail oriented and takes responsibility for fulfilling all components of the project/retainer deliverables
• Confident and positive with a ‘can-do' attitude
• Extremely strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Organized with good attention to detail
• Strong understanding and experience in managing project financials
• Highly proficient with Google Suite (Gmail, Doc, Slides, Sheets, Drive, Meet, Chat, Gemini) and Slack
• Baseline knowledge of Asana and other PM and A.I. tools and functions
• Added plus: Knowledge of Workbook