About you
As a Technical Project manager, you will work closely with governments, multilaterals, donors, NGOs and other stakeholders to understand system requirements and develop documentation and implementation plans. You have strong knowledge of software development cycles, project planning and Agile methodologies.
You will work with the software development team to operationalise the requirements and design agile sprints to ensure smooth rollout of the project within the scope and budget.
You will be a member of Akvo’s global developers team. You will lead a product team on a day-to-day basis and help contribute to Akvo’s technical solutions. You will frequently align with our Delivery Executives, hub managers and other technical/non-technical project managers.
Main tasks and responsibilities
Lead design and technical requirements gathering workshops with a wide variety of stakeholders- government, multilaterals, donors, NGOs and other stakeholders
Create “high quality” software development design documents and implementation plans
Ensure timely delivery within budget and avoiding scope creep
Be the scrum master / agile coach and coordinate/anchor design sprints
Work on delivering a global platform in bi-weekly development sprints
Look at the “big picture” of the product with the long term vision in mind. Be able to translate the big picture into smaller actionable details
Cut through the clutter, create clarity, prioritize features and be able to highlight the actual needs towards the software development team
Manage a distributed engineering team to translate user needs into functioning software
Interact with our design team to communicate feature needs and discuss design approaches
Conduct product presentations and demonstrations internally and externally
Be able to deconstruct technicalities and communicate clearly to a lay audience
Team management
Manage the product teams and oversee the execution of their goals and objectives
Create a productive and positive work environment
Motivate, coach and supervise team members (mostly remote)
Requirements
At least two (2) years experience as a Project Manager or Product Owner for software products in a similar position preferably in an organisation working with agile methodologies;
Some experience/understanding of data solutions for international development
Proven experience and skills li connecting business needs to technology
A clear communicator with a strong set of intercultural communication skills
Experience in working with a remote team;
A creative problem solver with a good understanding of user needs and experience in balancing competing requirements with limited resources
Ability to think on his/her feet, deal with fuzziness and work with minimum guidance
Experience/expertise with demanding deadlines and partners. Ability to pushback in polite but firm manner in case of ‘unreasonable’ requests
Good to have
Experience of working with NGOs and governments
Experience in software architecture / design thinking
What we offer
This assignment is a commitment of 40 hours/week for a period of 1 year and can be extended afterwards
Opportunity to contribute to the design of a growing open-source platform and work with interesting technologies in a creative and entrepreneurial environment together with highly motivated colleagues
A unique chance to work with tools that contribute to achieving higher efficiency and better results for the development aid sector
You will be part of our international Akvo community, with colleagues all over the world.
Remuneration in line with the market
For this position we are open for applicants located in most locations . Preferably you’ll be based within a maximum of 3 hours difference of the Central European Time zone.
How to applyAkvo works with a diverse and international team, divers in gender, culture, age and religion. This makes us unique and we want to promote diversity in our organisation. If you think you are the right person for this position, we highly encourage everyone to apply for this position.
Send your motivation letter and resume in English in PDF to Karen Blanken via work@akvo.org with the subject line “Application Technical Project Manager”, or apply via our website: akvo.org/join-our-team/.
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