Position: Project manager
Company: SocialBoost
Experience required: 1y
Category: Project Manager
English level: upper
Published: 2020-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

Essential Skills: 
— At least 2 years’ project management experience
— Higher education
— English Upper intermediate
— Strong communication and negotiation skills
— Advanced self-organizational skills
— Ability to analyze difficult situations and make appropriate decisions
— Conflict management skills
— Learning ability and flexibility
— Experience in Agile methodology
— A thorough understanding of the product development life cycle
— Experience working with Agile (Kanban)
— Leadership, ability to communicate effectively with technical professionals and find approach to developers
— Strong user of Jira, Confluence, Slack

We propose:
 
— Full of ideas changemakers’ team
— State-scale projects
— Market-based, competitive labor compensation
— Flexible schedule
— Competitive market salary
— Awesome team of 15
— Office in the centre of Kyiv

Scope of work
Project Manager would be responsible for the entire project development.

Responsibilities
— Communication with Product manager, Customer success manager, Support manager
— Being responsible for design services and its development
— Project estimation and planning
— Define project development plan (UX/UI aspects) according to business needs and project KPIs
— Project activities control, time and effort tracking, status reporting
— Development, Design and QA team management (4 developers, 1 designer, 1 QA, 1 DevOps)
— Project risk management
— Problem solving and root cause analysis, taking corrective and preventive actions
— Projects life cycle improvement through retrospectives and lessons learned

About the projects:
DOSVIT
Reform of Decentralization brought new opportunities for Consolidated Communities (CC) in Ukraine. This kind of independence lets villages become more prosperous, efficient, transparent and inclusive. SocialBoost is responsible for IT component in the DOBRE project to build digital tools for local governments that support the reform.
Hromadskyi Project
Hromadskyi Project is an IT solution for all participatory budgeting activities. It is available for municipalities as SaaS or self-hosted solution. Offers the automation of all participatory budgeting processes: starting from researching the documentation to voting and monitoring the implementation of winning projects. Now works in 90 cities and communities of Ukraine. Has over 5M unique users. Has helped allocate over 1 billion hryvnas for citizens’ projects