Senior Technical Project Manager (contract till 31 Dec 2024), CCLAW
Singapore Management University
- Singapore
- Contract
- Full-time
- Determining and planning the core requirements, deliverables, budget, and resources of a use case or research project
- Allocating tasks and designating responsibilities by identifying the specific skill sets of engineers
- Supervising the research team and monitoring progress of technical tasks on a daily basis,
- Leading project milestones tracking and ensuring that project objectives and timelines are met
- Identifying project challenges and problems and devising strategies to resolving them at both the team level and technical level
- Coordinating the team and developing effective communication plans and processes
- Collating project status update and reporting them regularly to the PI and Industry Director, including escalating any functional/timeline issues in a timely manner
- Organising meetings, setting the right agenda, recording outcomes and tracking open items to closure
- Managing risk, issue, dependency and ensuring mitigation plan
- Driving the recruitment for roles within the team to fill any skills gap
- Engaging with industry partners to understand business requirements and constraints
- reading academic papers, standards publications, and related material such as blog posts andpresentations
- Reading (and updating/commenting, relevant) existing software documentation
- creating presentations, video recordings, walkthroughs, etc. to document and explain research workdone
- writing (and presenting, if so decided by the PI) academic papers and materials for publication; and
- documenting in a sufficiently-detailed manner so as to share what you've learned.
- Bachelor Degree, and any experience with law and/or computer science, are a plus
- Degree holder with at least 5 years of relevant working experience
- Track record in leading, managing and delivering technology projects
- Good team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written/spoken English)
- Strong experience in project management
- Excellent analytical, problem solving and stakeholder management skills
- Strong capabilities in producing project reporting
- Technical proficiency: GitHub, Asana, Slack, and all major forms of software methodology (Agile, Lean,Scrum, etc)
- Essential for the individual to be self-motivated, resourceful, and able to work independently
- Agile, with meticulous attention-to-detail, and well-organised
- Ability to multi-task and willingness to learn quickly and effectively
- Ability to be discrete and maintain confidential information
- Understanding of how to prioritize and respond accordingly
- A self starter who is able to work independently, and under pressure, while consistently exercisingsound judgment even when faced with ambiguity
- Be transparent and unafraid to challenge, ask questions or call out obstacles
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to roll up your sleeves to get things done