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Community Rebuilders Project Manager in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Community Rebuilders

An Equal Opportunity Employer

The Project Manager works closely to plan, organize, manage and deliver resources to bring about the successful completion of a specific project.  The Project Manager is responsible for ensuring achievement of all project goals and objectives while honoring project restraint: scope, budget, time. The Project Manager optimizes the allocation and integration of inputs necessary to meet the project and organizational objectives. As an entry-level position, the Project Manager will oversee a single project/ contract/grant source-bearing responsibility for all regulatory, contract and organizational requirements that must be met to successfully deliver quality services to the defined population. All project managers at Community Rebuilders must complete training and demonstrate competency in strengths- based, and solution focused theory, trauma informed services.

 

Essential Functions:

  • Manages assigned Contracts/Grants to project scope, goals and deliverables to ensure project is delivered within scope, budget, timeline and meets all project performance objectives.
  • Supports business objectives in collaboration with Executive Team and stakeholders.
  • Effectively communicates project expectations to team members in a timely and clear fashion.
  • Liaises with internal project stakeholders on an ongoing basis and consults with their manager prior to external communication
  • Sets and continually manages project expectations with team members.
  • Plans, schedules, and tracks project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools and reporting mechanisms.
  • Determine the content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas with the support of their manager.
  • Initiates project change forms and implementation.
  • Conducts project post mortems and creates a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.

Acquisition & Deployment

 

  • Assists with contract/grant application development and completion.
  • Conduct strategy meetings to identify issues and service delivery requirements, facilitate grant spend out discussions, and obtain senior management input on timelines and deliverables.
  • Estimates and monitors the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals. Where required, negotiate with other department managers for the acquisition of required personnel /resources from within the organization
  • Drafts and submits budget reports and spend out proposals recommending subsequent budget changes where necessary.
  • Oversee organizational contract/grant development and management activities, and enforce organizational principles of integrity and compliance
  • Supports overall organizational objectives by assisting with the management of dependencies between projects within the organization
  • Assesses and recommends the need for additional staff / other resources, consult etc. works with their manager to achieve necessary recruitments and resources during project cycle.
  • Responsible for contract/grant spend out through coordination with Finance team and obtains monthly approval of plan from their manager.

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Operational Management

Directs and manages project implementation/development from beginning to end.

Develops full-scale project plans based on grants, contracts and associated communications documents/regulations.

Ensures all services are delivered using Community Rebuilders strengths-based trauma informed service delivery model.

Effectively implements Strengths Based Supervision training with employees, holds monthly quarterly and annual review meetings.

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