Freelance Creative Project Manager

VSAs purpose is to design for a better human experience. As a strategy and design agency we blend consumer insights and data with human-centered design to activate meaningful motivating and measurable experiences in an increasingly noisy world. With offices in Chicago New York and San Francisco VSA offers a full range of fully integrated capabilitiesbranding advertising data science and technologyall under one roof. VSA is also a proud member of Meet The People an international family of unified and independent agencies. For more than 40 years we have delivered solutions for business and creative leaders at some of the worlds most respected brands and forward-thinking organizations including Google Nike and IBM.

Summary:
The Project Manager is responsible for supporting senior-level project managers on a given clientpotentially across multiple clients and managing some smaller projects on their own. They are chargedwith the overall health of the projects including day-to-day project communications financialmanagement resources risk mitigation and both internal and external relationships.

The Project Manager is expected to:

• Support senior-level project managers on a given client/program or across multipleclients/programs and/or oversee and direct multiple individual projects.
• Ensure projects meet or exceed internal team and client expectations including being ontime and on budget.
• Interface with senior marketing technical and executive management at the client toensure the solution is understood and addresses the customers business requirements.
• Contribute content and presentation of key client deliverables as needed to ensurerelevancy strategy quality timeliness and adherence to SOWs.
• Manage and control project scope and the change control process to ensure that projectsare executed according to agreed-upon scope schedule and budget.
• Supervise and raise awareness of all project issues and risks working with appropriateteam members to develop solutions.
• Communicate relevant project information to the client such as status risk issues ordeliverables.
• Contribute to review and manage creation of client SOWs ensuring accuracy and legaland financial compliance.
• Collaborate with the project team to drive the approach deliverables schedule and toolsto deliver the project within established constraints; ensure accurate financial
  management of projects.
• Coordinate activities of the project team and ensure project tasks including schedulingand facilitating project-related team meetings (i.e. kickoffs status internal/client
  reviews) conveying action steps to the team and delivering weekly status reports toproject team the client and management.
• Work with Accounting to manage project billing schedules including reviewing invoicesand tracking fees and expenses.
• Develop maintain review and/or disseminate project documentation including statusreports invoices change orders project timelines budgets and sunset reviews.
• Ensure project documentation is produced in the standard format follows internaldocumentation processes and is reviewed and approved.
• Work with Resource Management to ensure projects are appropriately staffed includingboth employee and contract resources.
• Partner with manage communications and execute project scope requirements withsister agencies within contract parameters.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

The Project Manager has the following education experience and licenses:

• 3-5 years of demonstrated ability coordinating brand marketing campaign and digital projectspreferably in a consulting or agency environment.
• Bachelors degree in business administration with a concentration in project managementadvertising/marketing or related field.
• Experience using project management methodology including the ability to develop and trackscopes of work identify and resolve issues mitigate risk develop detailed task-based projectplans and specifications perform resource allocations and lead team meetings.
• Experience with project life cycles print and digital production processes and the delivery ofsolutions with creative and engineering components advertising projects brand strategy andresearch projects.
• Experience with project life cycles print and digital production processes and the delivery ofsolutions with creative and engineering components advertising projects brand strategy andresearch projects.
• Experience managing deliverables against a media plan is a plus.

To succeed they must have the following skills abilities and knowledge:

• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Strong team player; ability to assist with facilitating teams and clients.
• Ability to be highly organized accurate and timely; able to prioritize.
• Adaptability flexibility persistence versatility and ability to handle multiple projects and changingpriorities.
• Ability to organize information pay attention to detail accurately follow procedures maintainconfidential information and remember important pieces of information.
• Ability to maintain self-motivation and to work independently and in collaborative environments.
• Ability to develop and demonstrate an understanding of the clients business needsexpectations and requirements.
• Strong knowledge of one or more of the following: creative project management webdevelopment processes and the delivery of solutions with creative and technology componentsadvertising digital marketing print strategy and brand research.
• Strong digital literacy in Google Suite/MS Office (particularly Sheets/Excel) email project andteam communication software (e.g. Workamajig Smartsheet Jira Slack DoneDone).
• Ability to interact at all levels of the company and with external parties in a professional mannermaintaining effective communicationboth written and spoken.

Additional information:
Some evenings and weekend work may occasionally be required to meet deadlines.

Estimated Hourly Range

$45 - $75 USD

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