Posted by: UNICEF Internet, Broadcast and Image Section, Division of Communication, UNICEF
New York, New York, United States
UNICEF NYHQ-Division of Communications is in need of a consultant who will successfully plan, coordinate, produce and launch multimedia and web products that address all UNICEF priority areas. This includes coordination of participants from clients to DOC managers to producers of all elements of each project. He/she will also provide additional project tracking, co-ordination and reporting for supervisor and section as required.
Responsibilities:
- At the direction of the project owners, draft project plans including functional specifications and design approval processes. Amend as necessary.
- Advise project owners on industry standards, best practices and benchmarks based on expertise and available business intelligence.
- Update project stakeholders, contact information and project status.
- Track projects and progress against targets and milestones.
- Provide regular reports on project status, verbally, in presentations or on paper, as required.
- Advise and alert the project owners and core web upgrade team to any potential delays or problems
- Assess project risks on an on-going basis and bring problems to the attention of the web upgrade team
- Co-ordinate the implementation of the project plans with staff, that supervises the required human resources.
- Develop outlines, wire frames and other outline briefs for the preparation of comps, mock-ups and prototypes as appropriate.
- Co-ordinate the development of prototypes and testing models, as required.
- Present, answer questions, and provide documentation to stakeholders.
- Maintain project documentation.
- Co-ordinate logistics of meetings with vendors, documenting outcomes and agreements and action points.
- Participate in software selection processes ensuring due diligence as per UNICEF procurement procedures and under the guidance of DOC (with ITD.)
- Co-ordinate with other project managers and project owners to maintain and update IBIS project master list.
- Support training of IBIS team on effective use of developed web project methodology processes
- May be asked to work on weekends
- May be asked to travel
Qualifications or specialized knowledge/ experience required:
- Experienced in technology and creation of websites; web-savvy is an absolute requirement
- Prior project management experience working on website/software development projects
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification a plus
- Experience working on projects of similar scale, involving multiple users and groups
- Experience working with various project management methodologies.
- Experience producing multimedia and/or video projects a plus
- Experience working with content management a plus
- Must have strong people skills and be a good diplomatic communicator
- Must be very well organized and detail oriented
- Experience with work in a non-profit organization a plus
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Source: http://www.idealist.org/view/job/GsWSSm9ZfPbD/
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