General Description
The Project Management Development Program is a 12-weeks accelerated program, designed to provide an enhanced learning experience to develop project management professionals, capable of leading project teams and manage project scope, schedule, costs, risks, stakeholders, communications and quality. Participants will gain exposure to core operations, interact with executive leaders and receive frequent feedback regarding their development progress.
Throughout this program, the candidate will enhance his/her leadership, planning and communication skills. Will gain exposure to core operations, interact with executive leaders and receive frequent feedback regarding their development progress.
All this while establishing a Project Management mindset.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
During project initiating process
, the participant will:
- Understand project business need and project charter
- Conduct project kickoff meeting
- Identify stakeholders needs and expectations
- Define the project development approach based on project characteristics
- Develop project management plan based on project development approach
During the project executing, monitoring and controlling
, the participant will:
- Implement project management plan according project development approach
- Develop and manage project team, communications, quality, risks, stakeholders, procurement.
- Prepare work performance reports according project development approach
- Coordinate the evaluation of change requests according project development approach
- Manage project knowledge according project development approach
During the project closing
, the participant will:
- Prepare final report
- Archive the project documentation updates
- Update project records for archiving
- Coordinate the delivery of the final product, service, or result transition
- Organize the process assets updates
Minimum Education
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration or Psychology
Earn a grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or better
Experience
Relevant internship experiences in their educational field
Solid experience in leadership positions within student’s organizations and/or leading community and service initiatives
Involvement in extracurricular activities (e.g. mentoring, tutoring, volunteer work)
Experience in performing projects without project management formal education
Other Qualifications
Strong leadership skills:
Ability to lead others by establishing clear priorities and objectives, fostering a climate of respect and motivation for the team
Results agility:
Consistently deliver outstanding results even in new and tough situations
Optimism:
Tendency to have a positive outlook
Personal Skills:
Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills which are essential for interacting, influencing and communicating with key stakeholders at all levels across the organization to manage, inform and achieve outcomes
Emotional Intelligence:
Demonstrate self-awareness, self-motivation, empathy, and social skills; thinks before acting
Adaptability & Change Agent:
Effectively adjust to new or modified conditions and considers different perspectives, ideas, and opinions
Teamwork oriented:
Develop and maintain effective working relationships with peers, team members, and other departments and units to achieve a common goal with collaborative efforts
Conflict Management:
Ability to resolve problems with effective communication and negotiating skills to restore the focus to the overall goal and achieve the desired results.
Time Management:
Work efficiently by prioritizing, organizing and knowing when to delegate
Competencies
Accountability
Analytical Discipline
Collaboration & Teamwork
Change Agent
Customer Centric
Self Development
Business Excellence
Character
Popular Inc., is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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