Senior Project Manager - Broadcast Media

How You’ll Contribute:

A senior project manager (SPM) is responsible for the scope, schedule, cost, quality, and client satisfaction of a project throughout its entire lifecycle, from Initiation through Closing phases. However, the SPM depends on the help of other people to perform most of the actual activities of the project. A project managers role is primarily focused around written and verbal communication to all project stakeholders.

The SPM is
responsible for overseeing and performing project management functions on all Broadcast projects, budgets, and scopes
. The SPM will act as the person responsible on their assigned projects and have direct control over all project activities. Daily
activities include project communications, scheduling, task lists for team participants, managing deliverables from the consulting team, and overseeing the completion of projects.

The SPM is responsible for completing consulting projects on time, on budget and achieving high levels of customer satisfaction from our customers.
Most of this employee's time will be spent managing projects and communicating with all project stakeholders. This person will be helping to constantly improve the established Diversified processes.

As the primary interface to the client, the project manager develops a strong long-term relationship. They manage the client relationship, including expectations, communications, and satisfaction.

Location:

Preferred Northeast or Southeast

• Provides clear leadership and ownership for the project within Diversified, including accurate and timely verbal and written communication and follow up.
• Coordinates all activities associated with the
  timely, accurate and on-budget completion of the project, including engaging stakeholders, delegating responsibilities clearly and running client and internal project meetings.
• Provides support and assistance to team members as needed in order help them be successful and get the job done.
• Ensures appropriate and frequent communication between stakeholders.
• Resolves destructive conflict.
• Designs, plans, and coordinates work teams with regard to Media and Entertainment’s consulting projects
• Assumes ownership of individual projects and assignments
• Establishes and maintains communication with Account Executives, Directors, internal and external consultants and subject matter experts, clients, etc.
• Develops and communicates project updates as required.
• Provides constant monitoring of labor budgets.
• Provides and/or directs technical and administrative support to project team members. Develops and maintains all related project schedules.
• Coordinates all deliverable documentation between all internal and external stakeholders. Facilitates and directs document reviews to assure proper documentation is delivered to the client. Provides punch-list of remaining tasks after substantial completion.
• Contracts with contractors when necessary.
• Monitors status of projects including cost, timing, and staffing to ensure timely and accurate completion of projects.
• Ensures quality and continuous improvement.
• Coordinates transition of projects to later phase project teams.

Every project is different, and project stakeholders are different. The SPM needs to negotiate a very complex set of variables between discovery, analysis, conceptual design, and a widely varying set of expectations with multiple stakeholders. The skill of communicating both verbally and in writing to manage all these variables takes a very high level of awareness, emotional intelligence, and people management skills.

The SPM is constantly managing the forces of change in every project environment. Balancing schedules, budgets, scope, quality, and client satisfaction are a very complex set of…