As a Technical Project Manager (TPM) at Data Friendly Space (DFS), you play a crucial role in ensuring the successful delivery of projects that utilize cutting-edge technology and data solutions to drive positive social impact. Your responsibilities are diverse and cover several key areas to ensure the achievement of DFS’s mission and vision. Here is a detailed guide of typical project manager responsibilities at DFS:
1. Project Planning and Management
- Project Scoping: Work closely with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, function and non-functional requirements, and deliverables that align with DFS’s strategic goals.
- Resource Allocation: Help plan and allocate resources efficiently to ensure project milestones are met on time and within budget.
- Timeline Management: Develop detailed project timelines and monitor progress to ensure timely completion of project phases and keep timeline and scope updated if things change.
- Risk Management: Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to manage project challenges effectively.
2. Technical Elements
- Technology Integration: Guide the integration of core DFS technologies and services such as AI, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing into projects.
- Solution Design: Participate in and coordinate design and implementation discussions of user-centric digital tools and platforms that meet the needs of DFS partners and stakeholders.
- Quality Assurance: Ensure that all features work as intended and assist with or manage basic acceptance testing on behalf of dfs development partners.
3. Collaboration and Communication
- Stakeholder Engagement: Foster strong relationships with DFS partners, including social impact organizations, to understand their needs and ensure the delivery of relevant solutions.
- Team Coordination: Coordinate cross-functional teams, including data analysts, developers, and subject matter experts, to achieve project goals.
- Reporting: Provide regular updates and summaries to senior management and stakeholders on project progress, challenges, and outcomes.
4. Data Responsibility and Ethics
- Data Protection: Ensure all projects comply with data protection regulations and DFS’s ethical standards for data management, including privacy and security measures are followed within the project.
- Responsible Data Use: Promote the ethical use of data in all DFS projects, ensuring that data collection, analysis, and sharing practices are aligned with humanitarian principles and respect the rights of affected populations.
- Data Sensitivity Management: Ensure appropriate measures are implemented for data sensitivity to ensure appropriate handling of sensitive information.
5. Continuous Improvement and Innovation
- R&D Initiatives: Facilitate reviews and discussions that promote the iterative improvement of our processes and services to support Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and manage organizational capacity.
- Feedback Integration: Collect and integrate feedback from partners and users to continuously improve DFS’s digital tools and data solutions.
- Capacity Building: Support the development of internal and partner capabilities through training and knowledge sharing on new technologies and best practices in data management.
6. Compliance and Documentation
- Standards Adherence: Ensure all project activities comply with DFS’s policies and processes, as well as relevant national and international standards and regulations.
- Documentation: Coordinate the creation of, and maintain comprehensive documentation for all projects, including technical specifications, user guides, and project reports to ensure transparency and accountability.
7. Ecosystem Building
- Partnership Development: Build and nurture partnerships with technology providers, academic institutions, and other stakeholders to foster a collaborative ecosystem for innovation.
- Event Coordination: Organize and participate in events that promote idea generation and solution development for pressing humanitarian challenges.
- Proposal Creation: Participate with development partners within DFS to create project proposals that promote the creation of new initiatives in alignment with DFS’s mission.
Conclusion
As a DFS Technical Project Manager, your role is pivotal in driving technological innovations that enable social impact organizations to operate more effectively and respond better to humanitarian needs. Your commitment to ethical data use, stakeholder collaboration, and continuous improvement will ensure that DFS continues to lead in providing actionable data and digital tools for social good.
By adhering to these responsibilities, you contribute to DFS’s mission of leveraging technology and data to power positive social change and support the achievement of global humanitarian and development goals.
For more detailed information on DFS’s mission and values, please refer to the DFS About Page and the IASC Operational Guidance on Data Responsibility in Humanitarian Action.
Qualifications:
- Proven experience in project management, including planning, execution, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Strong skills in resource management, stakeholder engagement, and communication.
- Experience in fundraising and donor relations.
- Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams and stakeholders.
- Excellent organizational and analytical skills.
- Knowledge of project management methodologies and tools.
- Commitment to DFS’s mission, values, and strategic priorities.
Language: Fluent in written and spoken English.
Salary Range: USD 5,000 – 7,000 per month.
The final offer will be determined based on factors such as the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and overall fit for the role.
Additional information:
- This is a remote job that can be completed from anywhere in the world.
About Us
Data Friendly Space (DFS) is a 501(c)(3) global non-profit organization with guiding principle to improve information management and analysis capacity, tools, and processes in the humanitarian and development community to enable better informed and more targeted assistance.
DFS staff is composed of experts from the humanitarian information management and analysis field who specialize in real-time secondary data review and build humanitarian applications that support the fast extraction of information from large volumes of unstructured data.
DFS also focuses on the creation of data-centric web applications, websites, and mobile applications to support humanitarian organizations. When building software, DFS focuses on the intersection between data automation processes powered by Artificial intelligence and human knowledge and skills, in particular when one can help the other to execute the analysis.
Our Values:
- We are user-driven: Our digital tools are designed with the end-users in mind. We prioritise relevance and usability for organisations working in complex and low-resource environments and actively engage decision-makers to ensure that our initiatives align with organisations’ capacities and resources.
- We take an ecosystem-first approach: We believe in the catalytic and transformative potential of multi stakeholder partnerships and therefore we cultivate ecosystems of like-minded organisations seeking to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing.
- We are adaptable and agile: Our approach is tailored to the unique needs and intricacies of each partner and individual context. We remain flexible to ensure that our tools and services effectively address the diverse challenges of our partners.
How to apply
To Apply
Application Closing Date: This position will be open until August 7, 2024, or until it is filled.
Application Form: https://wkf.ms/4dooOLi
To apply, please complete the application form and upload both your CV and motivation letter.
Thank you for your interest in the position at DFS.
