Senior Program Delivery Specialist, Fundraising (Contract)

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💎 Seniority level: Senior, 5+ years

📍 Location: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay

💸 Salary: 43.0 - 66.0 USD per year

🔍 Industry: Non-profit

🏢 Company: Wikimedia Foundation👥 251-500💰 $2,100,000 Grant about 5 years ago

🗣️ Languages: English

⏳ Experience: 5+ years

🪄 Skills: LeadershipProject ManagementAgileSCRUMProject CoordinationJiraCross-functional Team LeadershipActiveMQREST APICommunication SkillsCollaborationProblem SolvingOrganizational skillsTime ManagementWritten communicationInterpersonal skillsRelationship buildingRisk ManagementStakeholder managementStrategic thinking

Requirements:

5+ years experience managing multi-stakeholder groups with staff, partner organizations, and volunteers.
5+ years experience managing volunteer-facing initiatives.
Strong knowledge of theoretical and practical aspects of project management including identifying stakeholders, defining requirements, crafting schedules, ensuring testing, and facilitating implementation.
Ability to anticipate risks, resolve conflicts, and initiate escalation paths.
Strong program management skills: prioritization, organization, planning, time management, facilitation, problem solving, and decision-making.
Ability to build rapport and influence with distributed teams representing various cultures, featuring different communication and learning styles.
Ability to build relationships and trust, influence without authority, and effectively enforce accountability.
Strong interpersonal communication skills.
Very detail-oriented with an ability to keep the big picture in mind at all times.
Passion for process improvement.
Significant experience with project management tools such as Asana.

Responsibilities:

Driving projects to completion
Co-creating new projects of significant impact to the fundraising efforts of the Foundation and developing strategic approaches to ensure their successful execution.
Facilitating dialogue across teams to drive shared understanding of goals, commitments, and desired outcomes.
Managing the delivery of multiple projects, including project planning, facilitating standups, and retrospectives.
Motivating teams to follow through on commitments, deliver outputs, and uphold a culture of accountability.
Ensuring that the team understands its commitments to its goals and to other teams.
Identifying the resources projects require and ensuring they are available to the team when necessary.
Developing and reporting upon relevant qualitative and quantitative project metrics.
Coordinating commitments and dependencies, within and across teams
Coordinating sequencing of projects and their dependencies, and facilitating a shared understanding of timelines across multiple customer teams.
Using tools like Asana and Slack for task management
Identifying stakeholders and keeping them aware of progress.
Coordinating communications and processes with other teams.
Building and maintaining coalitions both inside and outside the Fundraising team.
Documenting essential information about projects
Facilitating healthy stakeholder groups
Collaborate as part of ad hoc cross-functional teams on high-priority issues.
Supporting healthy team dynamics and a culture that welcomes diverse perspectives.
Promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
Environment scanning and preparedness
Maintaining a broad and deep awareness of the strategic, tactical, and operational situation on each individual project.
Proactively identifying risks and opportunities related to individual projects.
Producing solutions and using responsible judgement to determine when and how to enact or escalate.

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